NIU’s Gynecology Clinic will have a new home for the next year at a cost of more than $25,000, subject to approval by the Board of Regents.

The clinic’s former locale, in the basement of the DeKalb Clinic, 217 Franklin St., is being used for an orthopedic surgeon. So, the DeKalb Clinic has made space in another building for NIU.

NIU gynecology’s new location would be further east of the DeKalb Clinic in a building that will be renovated for NIU as a replacement that the DeKalb Clinic has for future plans.

In order to move to the new location, NIU must pay a 12-month lease of $25,615 which needs approval from the Regents.

The Regents, who govern NIU, Sangamon State University in Springfield and Illinois State University in Normal, will decide Thursday at its monthly meeting whether to allow the university to pay the lease.

The expected new location will be about twice the size of the current location NIU gynecology is using. However, NIU will only be able to use about half the space, said Rosemary Lane, director of University Health Services.

Lane said only half the space can be used because of a state law that allows only a certain amount of space to be used per toilet.

This space is a little less than what the gynecology clinic has available to it now, she said.

Renovations for the new facility will cost the DeKalb Clinic about $25,000, which would be covered by NIU’s lease, said Steve Jenetton a DeKalb Clinic administrator. He said the facility will be ready no later than Aug. 15.

Lane said the clinic will move in around Aug. 16.

The costs in the lease will include taxes, insurance, utilities maintenance and the renovation.

NIU’s clinic has been out of the University Health Services building for more than a year because of asbestos removal. It is scheduled to return in the fall of 1992.