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Joint resolution appropriating $1,545,000 of Motor Fuel Tax funds for the purpose of maintaining streets and highways under the applicable Illinois Highway Code, from December 1, 2017 to November 30, 2018, including traffic control signals, street lights, Lake County PASSAGE field elements and electrical service, and designated as Section 18-00000-01-GM.
Staff Summary
• 2018 Patrol I, Traffic Signal Maintenance and Electrical Service: Appropriation.
• Patrol I maintenance activities are paid out of the Motor Fuel Tax fund, and include maintenance and electrical service of the County’s traffic control signals, street lights, other field equipment, and field elements of Lake County PASSAGE.
• Before a project letting can be held for the contract maintenance services, an appropriation of $1,470,000 of Motor Fuel Tax funds is needed.
• An appropriation of $75,000 of Motor Fuel Tax funds is needed for the electrical service.
• This is a shared service item, with existing agreements with Deer Park, Gurnee, Highwood, Highland Park and the Illinois Department of Transportation for the inclusion of certain traffic signals within their jurisdiction in the County’s traffic signal maintenance contract for reimbursement to the County for their share.
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R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, Lake County, by and through its Division of Transportation, maintains 206 traffic control signal installations with interconnect for the County, as well as Deer Park, Gurnee, Highwood, Highland Park and the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT); and
WHEREAS, Lake County, by and through its Division of Transportation, maintains 16 flashing beacons, 14 permanent count stations, and over 586 street lights; and
WHEREAS, Lake County, by and through its Division of Transportation, maintains the Lake County PASSAGE field elements, including the fiber interconnect network, 20 PASSAGE communication cabinets, five PASSAGE Highway Advisory Radio towers; and
WHEREAS, it is beneficial to the preservation of said traffic control signals and other field equipment, and to the safety of the general public, to provide electrical service and contract regular maintenance to said traffic control signals and other equipment; and
WHEREAS, before a project letting can be held, an appropriation of funds is required for said contract maintenance service; and
WHEREAS, an appropriation of funds is required for electrical service associated with the County owned above-mentioned traffic control signals and street lights.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by this Lake County Board, that there is hereby appropriated $1,545,000 of Motor Fuel Tax funds for the purpose of maintaining streets and highways under the applicable Illinois Highway Code from December 1, 2017 to November 30, 2018, including traffic control signals, street lights, Lake County PASSAGE field elements and electrical service, designated as Section 18-00000-01-GM.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that only those operations as listed and described on the approved Estimate of Maintenance Costs, including supplemental and revising estimates approved in connection with this resolution, are eligible for maintenance with Motor Fuel Tax funds during the period as specified above.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the County Engineer of Lake County shall submit within three months after the end of the maintenance period as stated above, to the Department of Transportation, on forms available from the Department, a certified statement showing expenditures and the balances remaining in the funds authorized for expenditure by the Department under this appropriation.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Clerk is hereby directed to transmit four certified originals of this resolution to the district office of the Department of Transportation.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that these appropriations be processed by the County Engineer for final approval of the Illinois Department of Transportation in accordance with the “Agreement of Understanding” between the Illinois Department of Transportation and Lake County, dated January 18, 2013.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on July 11, 2017.