that this Board's statutory authority to finance educational build-

ings extends to the purchase and acquisition of existing buildings

as well as to the erection of new buildings, according to the

decision of the Highest Court of the Commonwealth in Morgan v.

Fayette County Board of Education (1943), 172 SW 2d 64, construing

statutes which are incorporated by reference into this Board's

statutory powers as sec forth in KRS 162.350.

          (C) The increased demand for additional student housing

facilities was not satisfied by the acquisition of the Linden Walk-

Rose Lane Apartments. With authority from the Council on Public

Higher Education in Kentucky and with the approval of the State

Property and Buildings Commission and of the Secretary of the

Executive Department for Finance and Administration (hereinafter,

the "Secretary"), this Board authorized the undertaking of a projects

for the construction of a building on the Main Campus of the Univer-

sity at Lexington to contain 200 apartment-type units of housing

designed to accommodate students or married student families. The

Commonwealth's Division of Purchases publicly solicited the submission

of proposals for the design and construction thereof, including

mechanical systems and site improvement, but excluding movable

furnishings and fixtures, through a Design-Build Concept commonly

referred to as "Turnkey Contracting" under authority of KRS 45.360(1l),

whereby the Division of Purchases is directed to attempt in every

practicable way to insure the supplyint of the real needs of the



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