Title
Joint resolution authorizing an Amended and Restated Agreement for Retail Sanitary Sewer Service and the Agreement for Sale and Transfer of Sanitary Sewer Facilities with the Village of Kildeer.
Staff Summary
· The County provides wholesale and retail sewer service to the Village of Kildeer as part of current sanitary sewer agreements.
· The Village has requested that a new agreement be initiated for retail sanitary service for the entire Village and provide for the transfer of ownership of all infrastructure from the Village to the County.
· This would include the transfer of approximately 780 sewer customers, 20.5 miles of sanitary sewer lines, 441 manholes, and 7 sewage lift stations.
· All operation, maintenance, and billing services would become the responsibility of the County.
· The proposed service area is tributary to the County's Southeast Sanitary Sewer System and would provide more complete and timely service response to the subject area.
· The accompanying Agreement for the Sale and Transfer of Sanitary Sewer Facilities provides for the transfer of facilities in addition to sanitary sewer funds for the installation of a sanitary sewer system to reroute flows currently routed through the Village of Lake Zurich.
· These agreements meet the criteria established under the "Policy and Criteria Related to the County Operation, Maintenance or Ownership of Municipal Water or Sewer Facilities."
· These agreements will be ratified and approved by the Village of Kildeer at their September 29, 2014 meeting, pending approval by the County Board.
· This resolution authorizes the execution of an Amended and Restated Agreement for Retail Sanitary Sewer Service and the Agreement for Sale and Transfer of Sanitary Sewer Facilities with the Village of Kildeer.
Body
R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, the County of Lake (County) owns and operates sanitary sewer systems, including the Des Plaines River Water Reclamation Facility, that serves the Village of Kildeer (Village) within the Southeast Lake Facilities Planning Area; and
WHEREAS, the County and the Village had entered into Agreements for Wholesale and Retail Sewage Disposal; and
WHEREAS, the County and the Village wish to enter into a new agreement in which the County would assume ownership and operation of the Village's sanitary sewer collection and transport system and provide retail sanitary sewer service to the Village's system within the Southeast Lake Facilities Planning Area; and
WHEREAS, contemporaneously with the executive of the Retail Service Agreement, the Village and County wish to enter an agreement to provide for the transfer of ownership and control of all existing Kildeer sewage facilities through the executive of the Agreement for Sale and Transfer of Sewer Facilities; and
WHEREAS, the appropriate Agreement for Retail Sanitary Sewer Service and Agreement for Sale and Transfer of Sewer Facilities has been prepared, and ratified by the Village of Kildeer; and
WHEREAS, execution of said Agreements must be authorized by Resolution of this County Board.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that the Chair of the County Board and the Clerk of said County be and they are hereby authorized and directed to execute the attached Amended and Restated Agreement for Retail Sanitary Sewer Service and the Agreement for Sale and Transfer of Sanitary Sewer Facilities with the Village of Kildeer in the forms substantially attached.
DATED at Waukegan, Lake County, Illinois on this 14th day of October A.D. 2014.