Title
Joint Resolution authorizing the Chair of the County Board, the County Clerk, and the County Engineer to execute an agreement among Lake County and various townships for the equally shared costs of the local match for the federal funds administered by the Regional Transportation Authority through its Regional Technical Assistance Program for the Inter/Intra County Paratransit Plan Project and designated as Section 08-00280-00-ES.
Staff Summary
• Inter/Intra County Paratransit Transportation Plan Project Agreement: Various Townships
• Lake County has secured $100,000.00 of RTA grant funding for transit planning projects that enhance transit, including studies for new institutional arrangements to address emerging transportation needs within non-traditional markets.
• Financial participation by certain townships towards the 20% match is provided by this agreement.
• This resolution authorizes the execution of agreements with the following townships: Antioch, Avon, Cuba, Ela, Fremont, Grant, Lake Villa, Libertyville, Moraine, Vernon, Warren, Wauconda, West Deerfield and Zion.
Body
WHEREAS, this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, by prior resolution at its meeting of November 14, 2006 adopted a resolution in support of the Lake County Coordinated Services Committees (LCCSC) goal to develop a plan to provide borderless paratransit service in Lake County to meet the need of those mobility challenged constitutes populations in Lake County, which may include the poor, the elderly, those with medical needs and/or the disabled, who have been determined to be eligible by the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA), or a service board of the RTA, for existing and future local, state and/or federally funded non-traditional transit service program; and
WHEREAS, this County Board of Lake County, Illinois by prior resolution at its meeting of June 10, 2008, endorsed the revised “Plan for using the new Collar County Transportation Empowerment Funds” (the plan) as a planning document; and
WHEREAS, this County Board of Lake County, Illinois by prior resolution of its meeting of July 8, 2008, authorized an application to the Regional Transportation Authority for a technical assistance grant, in concert with various townships in Lake County, for completion of an Inter/Intra County Paratransit Transportation Plan, and
WHEREAS, said July 8, 2008 resolution authorized the County Engineer to execute the final RTA technical assistance grant.
WHEREAS, the RTA is poised to provide to Lake County grant funding under the Regional Transportation Assistance Program (RTAP) for transit planning projects to enhance transit, including studies for new institutional arrangements to address emerging transportation needs within non-traditional markets; and
WHEREAS, certain townships, as detailed below, which provide paratransit services are willing to be financial participants in a study that enables progress to be made towards reaching the said long-term goal of coordinated countywide paratransit service, with the county Division of Transportation in the lead as provided by in the Plan; and
WHEREAS, Lake County and certain townships, as detailed below, are desirous of entering into an agreement for the shared costs of the local match for the federal funds administered by the RTA, a draft copy of which is attached.
WHEREAS, nine of the fourteen above identified townships have executed said agreement and the remaining five townships are expected to execute their respective agreements.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Chair of the County Board, the County Clerk, and the County Engineer of Lake County, Illinois, be authorized, and they are hereby directed to execute an agreement pertaining to the financing of the above-named RTA grant funding with the following townships: Antioch Township, Avon Township, Cuba Township, Ela Township, Fremont Township, Grant Township, Lake Villa Township, Libertyville Township, Moraine Township, Vernon Township, Warren Township, Wauconda Township, West Deerfield Township and Zion Township. The County Engineer shall transmit in writing the final agreement to be executed by the Chair of the Lake County Board and the County Clerk. This project is designated as Section 08-00280-00-ES.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that as five of the townships have yet to execute their respective agreements, the County Engineer is hereby authorized and directed to determine when the currently uncommitted townships will be included or not included in said Paratransit Transportation Plan Project.
Dated at Waukegan, Illinois
this 14TH day of October 2008