Lake County, IL
File #: 09-2014    Version: 1 Name: Brownfield Waukegan Extension 2008
Type: resolution Status: Joint Committee
File created: 9/23/2009 In control: Health and Community Services Committee
On agenda: Final action: 10/7/2009
Title: Joint resolution authorizing an amendment to the intergovernmental agreement with the City of Waukegan to extend the timeframe for the expenditure of 2008 Brownfield Funds.
Attachments: 1. IGA Slip3 Brownfield 2008, 2. Waukegan IGA Amendment for 2008 Award
Related files: 09-2141, 09-1884

Title

Joint resolution authorizing an amendment to the intergovernmental agreement with the City of Waukegan to extend the timeframe for the expenditure of 2008 Brownfield Funds.

Staff Summary

•                     In October 2008 the County Board executed an intergovernmental agreement with the City of Waukegan for a Brownfield Grant for up to $100,000 for clean-up activities at the Former Harbor Slip 3. 

•                     The Resolution would authorize the Chairman to execute an amendment to the intergovernmental agreement with Waukegan to extend the timeframe for the City to request reimbursement of Brownfield Funds from October 2009 until October 2010. 

 

Body

RESOLUTION

 

                     WHEREAS, Lake County and the City of Waukegan entered into an Intergovernmental Agreement in October 2008 whereby the County agreed to provide the City up to $100,000 in matching funds for environmental clean-up activities at the Former Harbor Slip 3 in Waukegan, Illinois; and 

 

                     WHEREAS, under the terms of the Intergovernmental Agreement, the City agreed to submit a request for the reimbursement of funds within one (1) year of the effective date of the Intergovernmental Agreement; and

 

                     WHEREAS, the City has requested that the timeframe of the Intergovernmental Agreement be extended for an additional twelve (12) months beyond the expiration of the original agreement to allow the City to complete work on the project; and

 

WHEREAS, the Intergovernmental Agreement states that it may be amended by mutual agreement, signed, and executed with the same formality with which it was originally executed.

 

                     NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois that the County Board Chairman is hereby authorized to execute an Amendment to the Intergovernmental Agreement with the City of Waukegan to extend the timeframe for the expenditure of brownfield funds for environmental clean-up activities at the Former Harbor Slip 3 in Waukegan, Illinois, a copy of which is attached, and hereby incorporated in this Resolution by reference; and

 

                     WHEREAS, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that said extension shall expire on October 14, 2010.

 

DATED, at Waukegan, Lake County, Illinois on this day October 13, 2009.