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Joint resolution authorizing the execution of a contract for professional services for the design of the reconstruction and 3-laning of Wadsworth Road from the Des Plaines River Bridge to Cashmore Road in downtown Wadsworth at a maximum cost of services described of $223,377.61 and appropriates $270,000 of Matching Tax funds and designated as Section 01-00033-10-ES.
Staff Summary
• Wadsworth Road, Reconstruction and 3-lanes (Des Plaines River Bridge to Cashmore Road): Consultant Agreement and Appropriation.
• This is a Phase II engineering contract for roadway reconstruction and 3-lane widening.
• This resolution authorizes the execution of a professional services agreement with Christopher B. Burke Engineering, Rosemont, IL., for Phase II engineering services and appropriates $270,000 of Matching Tax funds.
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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 Wadsworth Road from the Des Plaines River Bridge to Cashmore Road in downtown Wadsworth could be improved by roadway reconstruction and widening to 3-lanes; and
WHEREAS, it is advisable that a consultant engineering firm be employed to provide Phase II engineering services (Design Engineering); 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, Christopher B. Burke Engineering, Rosemont, Illinois. are consulting engineers skilled in the provision of said Phase II engineering services (Design Engineering).
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that Christopher B. Burke Engineering, Rosemont, Illinois, be employed to provide said Phase II engineering services (Design Engineering), and that the Chair of the County Board, the County Clerk and the County Engineer of Lake County are authorized and they are directed to execute, on behalf of Lake County, an agreement for consultant engineering services between Lake County and Christopher B. Burke Engineering, Rosemont, Illinois. The County Engineer shall transmit in writing the final agreement to be executed by the Chair of the Lake County Board and the County Clerk.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that there is hereby appropriated $270,000 of Matching Tax funds for these engineering services designated as Section 01-00033-10-ES.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this agreement be administered in accordance with Chapter 605, Act 5, Section 5-205.2 of the Illinois Compiled Statutes without further Board action providing the final contract cost chargeable under the funds appropriated herein does not exceed the appropriation aforesaid.
Dated at Waukegan, Illinois, on this 16th day of June A.D., 2009