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1957] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS IOI3
SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR NONRECURRING EXPENDITURES
(12) The Committee on Nonrecurring Appropriations recommends assignments
of funds from the General Reserve for the following purposes:
1. Graduate College, costs of symposium in commemoration of the
College's fiftieth anniversary $4 500 00
2. Department of Botany, remodeling in Natural History Building
and purchase of equipment for laboratories 6 142 50
3. College of Commerce and Business Administration, purchase of
equipment for data processing I 150 00
4. Department of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, purchase
of equipment 4 725 50
Total $16 518 00
I concur.
On motion of Mr. Swain, these appropriations were made by the
following vote: Aye, Mr. Bissell, Mr. Herrick, Mrs. Holt, Mr. Johnston,
Mr. Livingston, Mr. Swain, Mrs. Watkins, Mr. Williamson; no,
none; absent, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Nickell, Mr. Stratton.
CONDEMNATION OF PROPERTY AT 1 008 WEST GREEN STREET,
URBANA, ILLINOIS
(13) The University now owns all of the property on the north side of the
1000 block of West Green Street needed by it as a site for Single Graduate
Student's Dormitory Unit No. 2, with the exception of the property located at
1008 West Green Street.
The property at 1008 West Green Street is owned by Mr. William R.
Hunsicker. The lot is improved with an old residence which has been converted
to seven utility apartments and also with a new apartment building completed
in 1957, containing eight small apartments. The entire property is rented by the'
owner to tenants, most of whom are students. None of it is occupied by Mr.
Hunsicker as his personal residence. The lot has a frontage of approximately
67 feet on Green Street and a depth of approximately 234 feet. Prior to the
completion of the new apartment building, negotiations were opened by officers
of the University with Mr. Hunsicker in an effort to acquire the property.
Mr. Hunsicker, however, refused to sell to the University at that time. The
University has had careful and detailed appraisals made of the entire property
and negotiations have been conducted by officers of the University with the
owner for the acquisition of this property based upon these appraisals. A great
number of conferences with the owner have been held and it is now established
that the owner and the University can not agree on the amount of compensation
to be paid to him for this property. Mr. Hunsicker is unwilling to sell to the
University except at a price which the University officers deem decidedly
exorbitant and excessive.
It is therefore necessary to request that the Board of Trustees resort to its
right of eminent domain in order to acquire title to this property at a fair and
reasonable price, and the Vice-President and Comptroller, the Director of the
Physical Plant Department, and the Legal Counsel so recommend.
I concur and recommend adoption of the following resolution.
Resolution
It is hereby resolved, found and declared by The Board of Trustees of the
University of Illinois that the following described real estate, situated in the
City of Urbana, County of Champaign and State of Illinois, viz.:
The West 67 feet of Lot Three (3) in Block Two (2) of Burpee, Curtiss
and Somers' Addition of Out Lots to the City of Urbana,
is needed by the University of Illinois, an educational institution established
and supported by the State of Illinois, as the site for a building needed and to
be constructed by said University for educational purposes and to enable said
University to discharge its duties to the people of said state and for public
use; that funds available for the purchase of said land have been appropriated
to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois by the General As-