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Joint resolution appropriating a supplemental amount of $580,000 of the ¼% Sales Tax for Transportation and Public Safety funds to reimburse the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) for the acquisition of necessary right-of-way by agreement or condemnation, and other right-of-way costs associated with the proposed intersection improvement of Wadsworth Road at Illinois Route 131, and designated as Section 03-00033-12-CH.
Staff Summary
· Wadsworth Road at Illinois Route 131 Intersection Improvement, Right-of-Way Acquisition: Supplemental Appropriation.
· Plans and specifications for this improvement have been prepared.
· IDOT is the lead agency for the right-of-way acquisition for this improvement.
· The County Board, at its meeting on February 10, 2009, provided an initial appropriation of $360,000 for right-of-way needs, and a supplemental appropriation of $1,876,600 at its meeting on April 13, 2010.
· To complete right-of-way acquisitions, another supplemental appropriation of $580,000 of the ¼% Sales Tax for Transportation and Public Safety funds is necessary to reimburse IDOT.
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R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, Wadsworth Road, County Highway 17, is a designated route on the County highway system; and
WHEREAS, it would be beneficial to the safety and welfare of the motoring public if the intersection of Wadsworth Road at Illinois Route 131 could be improved by widening, resurfacing, and modernization of existing traffic control signals; and
WHEREAS, Lake County, by and through its Division of Transportation, has caused to be prepared plans and right-of-way plats, said plats identifying right-of-way needs; and
WHEREAS, IDOT is the lead agency for the right-of-way acquisition for this improvement, and Lake County will reimburse 100% of IDOT's right-of-way acquisition costs; and
WHEREAS, this Lake County Board, at its' meeting on February 10, 2009' appropriated an initial $360,000 of the ¼% Sales Tax for Transportation and Public Safety funds for right-of-way acquisition, and designated as Section 03-00033-12-CH; and
WHEREAS, this Lake County Board, at its meeting on April 13, 2010, appropriated a supplemental $1,191,600 of Matching Tax funds and $685,000 of the ¼% Sales Tax for Transportation and Public Safety for right-of-way acquisition, and designated as Section 03-00033-12-CH; and
WHEREAS, the necessary supplemental appropriation for right-of-way and associated costs is estimated to be $580,000.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by this Lake County Board, that it is necessary and desirable that Lake County acquire title to, and possession of, all of the real property for the improvement of Wadsworth Road at Illinois Route 131 together with construction and other easements, both temporary and permanent, for said improvement , all as outlined in plats of highways made under direction of Paula Trigg, County Engineer of Lake County, Illinois, copies of which are filed in the office of the Lake County Engineer, which said real property and easements are necessary, required, and needed for the improvement of said highway.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Lake County Division of Transportation cooperate with IDOT in its acquisition of said real property and easements for this improvement, and that Lake County pay for said real property and easements as approved by the County Engineer.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that there is hereby appropriated a supplemental amount of $580,000 of the ¼% Sales Tax for Transportation and Public Safety funds for the purchase of the real property and easements determined to be necessary under this resolution, and the resolutions of this Lake County Board at its meetings on February 10, 2009, and April 13, 2010, which appropriated respectively an initial $360,000 of the ¼% Sales Tax for Transportation and Public Safety funds and a supplemental $1,191,600 of Matching Tax funds and $685,000 of the ¼% Sales Tax for Transportation and Public Safety for right-of-way acquisition for this improvement and described in the plats of survey of said improvement, and designated as Section 03-00033-12-CH.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on February 12, 2013.