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2 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [July 30
PRESIDENT STODDARD PRESENT
President Livingston stated that President George Dinsmore Stoddard
was present for the first time since taking charge of the affairs of the
University on July 1, 1946, and asked him if he cared to make any
statement.
President Stoddard made a brief statement touching on the functions
and aims of a State university, and the problems facing all educational
institutions at the present time.
MATTERS PRESENTED BY PRESIDENT STODDARD
The Board considered the following matters presented by the President
of the University.
AWARD OF CONTRACT FOR WELL
(i) The Physical Plant Department has received the following bids on a test
well and a new well to be located on the South Farm on the Urbana campus:
Hayes and Layne-Western
Sims, Company,
Item Champaign Chicago
Test well, 175-foot depth $ I 050 00 $ 700 00
Gravel packed well, 175-foot depth n 513 50 8 485 00
25 feet of screen I 456 50 (included
with well)
Total Bid $14 020 00 $9 185 00
The test well will first be sunk, and if the supply of water is found adequate
the well will be finished. The additional water supply is urgently needed for
reasons explained in a letter dated July 15 from the Director of the Physical
Plant Department to the Comptroller, a copy of which is hereby given to the
Secretary of the Board for record.
The Director of the Physical Plant Department and the Comptroller recommend
that the contract be entered into with Layne-Western Company, the lowest
bidder, for a test well at $700 and for the completed well if dug at an additional
$8,485. Funds are available in the State appropriation of $120,000 for "Water
Station improvements" made to the University of Illinois for the biennium
of 1945-1947-
On motion of Mr. McKelvey, this contract was awarded as recommended.
REASSIGNMENT OF FUNDS FOR STUDENT HOUSING
(2) On May 29, 1946 (Minutes, pages 1112-1113, 1116, 1122), the Board approved
a recommendation from President A. C. Willard for the assignment of funds for
student housing at Urbana-Champaign as follows:
(a) Additional temporary housing, supplementing present facilities, to provide
accommodations for 150 families and 1730 single students, at a cost of
$572,600, to be assigned from the $1,500,000 State appropriation for Students'
Residence Halls and equipment. These facilities would include remodeling the
West Hall of the Stadium and the Ice Skating Rink to house 738 single students,
and Federal Public Housing Authority temporary buildings to house 150 families
and 992 single students.
(b) Assignment of $356,275 in this appropriation and $250,950 in the fund
for Contingencies in the State appropriations for buildings (total $607,225) for
the partial cost of a new women's residence hall.
Requests for releases of funds for such uses were submitted to and have
been approved by the Governor. In the meantime, more complete data on the
cost of temporary housing are available which indicate a probable cost of
$1,032,000, compared with the previous estimate of $1,079,600. Two factors which
will affect the ultimate cost of the temporary housing program are not yet determined:
(a) the exact amount of reimbursement due the University by the