Lake County Illinois - File #: 25-0869

• File #: 25-0869
• Version: 1
• Name: 2025 Pavement Management IMS Testing Agreement and Appropriation
• Type: resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 6/12/2025
• In control: Public Works and Transportation Committee
• Final action: 7/8/2025
• Title: Joint resolution authorizing an agreement for professional engineering services with International Cybernetics Company, LP dba Infrastructure Management Services (IMS), Largo, Florida, at a maximum cost of $166,795.40, for annual pavement testing and management services and appropriating $200,000 of Matching Tax funds.

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
7/8/2025	1	Lake County Board	adopted	Pass
6/26/2025	1	Financial & Administrative Committee	recommended for adoption to the regular agenda	Pass
6/25/2025	1	Public Works and Transportation Committee	approved and referred on to the Financial and Administrative Committee	Pass

Title

Joint resolution authorizing an agreement for professional engineering services with International Cybernetics Company, LP dba Infrastructure Management Services (IMS), Largo, Florida, at a maximum cost of $166,795.40, for annual pavement testing and management services and appropriating $200,000 of Matching Tax funds.

Staff Summary

•                     Lake County approved an agreement for professional engineering services with IMS in 1986 to implement a pavement management system.

•                     Approximately 50 percent of the county highway system is tested annually, including dynamic load testing and laser testing procedures.

•                     This information is used to prepare a five-year pavement preservation program to keep the county highway system in a state of good repair.

•                     Lake County selects professional engineering firms in accordance with the Local Government Professional Services Selection Act, 50 ILCS 510/1 et. seq., and the recommended firm has a satisfactory past relationship with the Lake County Division of Transportation.

•                     This project is included in the Transportation Improvement Program and designated as Section 25-00219-00-ES.

Body

RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, the county highway system consists of 914 lane miles of pavement; and

WHEREAS, the county highway system has a replacement cost of nearly $3,000,000,000; and

WHEREAS, it is advisable to perform annual pavement testing and make annual pavement preservation investments to keep the county highway system in a state of good repair; and

WHEREAS, on January 14, 1986, the County Board of Lake County, Illinois, approved an agreement for professional engineering services with IMS, Largo, Florida, for the implementation of a pavement management system; and

WHEREAS, Lake County, by and through its Division of Transportation, has selected a professional engineering services firm in accordance with the Local Government Professional Services Selection Act, 50 ILCS 510/1 et. seq; and

WHEREAS, IMS, Largo, Florida, continues to be consulting engineers skilled in these pavement testing and management services; and

WHEREAS, an appropriation of funds is required.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County Illinois, that IMS, Largo, Florida, be employed to deliver pavement testing and management services to approximately one half of the county highway system, and that the County Board Chair, the County Clerk and the County Engineer of said County are hereby directed to execute on behalf of Lake County, an agreement for these consultant services with IMS at a maximum cost of $166,795.40; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the County Engineer shall transmit, in writing, the final agreement to be executed by the County Board Chair and the County Clerk; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that there is hereby appropriated $200,000 of Matching Tax funds for this project and designated as Section 25-00219-00-ES.

DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on July 8, 2025.