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Joint resolution appropriating $1,580,000 of Motor Fuel Tax funds for the maintenance and electrical service of traffic control signals, streetlights, and Lake County PASSAGE field elements, under the applicable Illinois Highway Code, from December 1, 2024, to November 30, 2025, and authorizing the one-year renewal clause with Meade, Inc., Willowbrook, Illinois, in the amount of $1,247,132.20.
Staff Summary
• Patrol one maintenance activities are paid out of the Motor Fuel Tax fund, including the maintenance, electrical service, and Joint Utility Locating Information for Excavators (JULIE) locations for the County traffic control signals, streetlights, other field equipment, and field elements of Lake County PASSAGE.
• Traffic signal maintenance is currently under contract with Meade Electric, Inc. with two one-year renewal clauses. This is the second renewal.
• Before a contract renewal can be signed, an appropriation from Motor Fuel Tax funds of $1,497,000 is needed for Fiscal Year 2025 contract maintenance services and $83,000 for electrical service.
• This is a shared service item, with existing agreements with Barrington, Buffalo Grove, Deerfield, Deer Park, Gurnee, Highland Park, Highwood, Lindenhurst, and the Illinois Department of Transportation for the inclusion of certain traffic control devices within their jurisdiction in the County’s traffic signal maintenance contract for reimbursement to the County for their share.
• This project is included in the transportation improvement program and designated as Section 25-00000-01-GM.
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RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, Lake County, by and through its Division of Transportation, maintains traffic control signal installations with interconnect for the County, as well as other agencies by agreement; and
WHEREAS, Lake County, by and through its Division of Transportation, maintains various flashing beacons, permanent count stations, and streetlights throughout the County; and
WHEREAS, Lake County, by and through its Division of Transportation, maintains the Lake County PASSAGE field elements, including the fiber interconnect network, and PASSAGE communication cabinets; and
WHEREAS, it is beneficial to the preservation of said traffic control signals and other field equipment, and to the safety of the public, to provide electrical service and contract regular maintenance to said traffic control signals and other equipment; and
WHEREAS, traffic signal maintenance is currently under contract with Meade, Inc., Willowbrook, Illinois, with two one-year renewal clauses; and
WHEREAS, before a contract renewal can be signed, an appropriation of funds is required for said contract maintenance service; and
WHEREAS, this is a shared service item, with existing agreements with Barrington, Buffalo Grove, Deerfield, Deer Park, Gurnee, Highland Park, Highwood, Lindenhurst, and the Illinois Department of Transportation for the inclusion of certain traffic signals within their jurisdiction in the County’s traffic signal maintenance contract for reimbursement to the County for their share; and
WHEREAS, an appropriation of funds is required for electrical service associated with the County owned above-mentioned traffic control signals and streetlights.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that there is hereby appropriated $1,497,000 of Motor Fuel Tax funds for Fiscal Year 2025 contract maintenance services with Meade, Inc., Willowbrook, Illinois, needed to maintain the traffic control signal installations with interconnect and other field equipment, and designated as Section 25-00000-01-GM; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that there is hereby appropriated $83,000 of Motor Fuel Tax funds for electrical service associated with the above-mentioned traffic control signals and streetlights; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that only those operations as listed and described on the approved Estimate of Maintenance Costs, including supplemental or revised estimates approved in connection with this resolution, are eligible for maintenance with Motor Fuel Tax funds during the period as specified above; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the County Engineer of Lake County shall submit within three months after the end of the maintenance period as stated above, to the Department of Transportation, on forms available from the Department, a certified statement showing expenditures and the balances remaining in the funds authorized for expenditure by the Department under the appropriation; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the County Clerk is hereby directed to transmit four certified originals of this resolution to the district office of the Illinois Department of Transportation; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that these appropriations be processed by the County Engineer for final approval on behalf of the Illinois Department of Transportation in accordance with the “Agreement of Understanding” between the Illinois Department of Transportation and Lake County, dated May 3, 2018.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on September 10, 2024.