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62 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [September 18
(approximately $3,000), to be paid by the University only if funds are not
available for the balance of the contract. The cost of the drawings is included in
the bid so that if funds are available for the installation of the equipment, the
contractor will recover the cost under the contract.
It is also recommended that action on the contracts for the following installations
be deferred, pending negotiations with the lowest bidders to determine
if they will execute contracts subject to the availability of additional funds:
Elevators — Hollister Whitney Company, Quincy $58 725
Dumb-waiter — Gallaher and Speck, Inc., Chicago 4 200
These phases of the work can be deferred until after July 1, 1957.
The total budget of the project on the basis of the lowest bids received is
$635,000 in excess of available funds. The appropriation for the Biology Building
was reduced from the amount originally requested by the Board of Trustees,
and it is not practicable to construct a building with less space than the first
unit as now designed. Since the building can not be completed during the
present biennium in any event, the State Department of Finance and some members
of the Illinois Budgetary Commission have been consulted regarding the
possibility of deferring the financing of approximately $635,000 of the construction
costs until the 1957-59 biennium. This procedure has been agreed to in
principle. In the event that an appropriation would not be forthcoming to complete
the building, it would be possible to omit some of the work through
change orders and still have a usable building although obviously departments
occupying it would be handicapped.
Only one bid on the general contract for the sewer work was received, and
since this is one of the items which can be deferred until the next biennium, the
Director of the Physical Plant and the Vice-President and Comptroller recommend
that all bids on the sewer work be rejected, and that new bids be taken
later.
In support of the above recommendations, I submit a report from the
Director of the Physical Plant detailing the reasons why the cost of this project
will exceed funds presently available and outlining the alternatives. Appended
to the report are a schedule of all bids received and a comparison of original
estimates of cost with the project budget based on the lowest bids. A copy of this
report is filed with the Secretary for record.
I concur in these recommendations and recommend that the Comptroller
and the Secretary of the Board be authorized to execute the contracts, subject
to release of funds by the Governor.
On motion of Mr. Livingston, the foregoing recommendations were
approved, the contracts were awarded as recommended, and the Comptroller
and Secretary of the Board were authorized to execute the
same. This action was taken by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Herrick,
Mr. Johnston, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Megran, Mr. Swain, Mrs. Watkins,
Mr. Williamson; no, none; absent, Mr. Bissell, Mrs. Holt, Mr. Nickell,
Mr. Stratton.
CONTRACTS FOR REMODELING DAVENPORT HALL
(8) The Director of the Physical Plant and the Vice-President and Comptroller
recommend award of the following contracts for remodeling the Morrow Hall
Wing of Davenport Hall:
General — E. N. DeAtley, Champaign $102 688
Base bid ($103,500), less Alternate A for substituting reinforced
concrete for structural steel in the framing $812
Plumbing and heating — Reliable Plumbing and Heating Company,
Champaign 28 905
Ventilating and air conditioning — Schroeder and Sons, Champaign.... 19 995
Electrical work—Neal Morton doing business as Neal Morton Electric,
Champaign 21 350
Funds are available in the state appropriations to the University for 1955-57
for buildings and other permanent improvements, subject to release by the
Governor.