Lake County, IL
File #: 13-0858    Version: 1 Name: 2013 Resurfacing of Riverwoods Road, Fairfield Road and O’Plaine Road: Consultant Agreement and Appropriation
Type: resolution Status: Passed
File created: 8/1/2013 In control: Public Works and Transportation Committee
On agenda: Final action: 8/13/2013
Title: Joint resolution authorizing an agreement for professional engineering services with McClure Engineering Associates, Inc., Waukegan, Illinois, for Phase II design engineering services for the proposed 2013 resurfacing of Riverwoods Road, Fairfield Road, and O’Plaine Road at a maximum cost of services described as $210,009.21, appropriating $250,000 of Matching Tax funds for these engineering services, and designated as Section 13-00999-48-EG.
Attachments: 1. 13-0858 Draft Consultant Agreement - Riverwoods, Fairfield, O'Plane Resurfacing Projects
Title
Joint resolution authorizing an agreement for professional engineering services with McClure Engineering Associates, Inc., Waukegan, Illinois, for Phase II design engineering services for the proposed 2013 resurfacing of Riverwoods Road, Fairfield Road, and O'Plaine Road at a maximum cost of services described as $210,009.21, appropriating $250,000 of Matching Tax funds for these engineering services, and designated as Section 13-00999-48-EG.
 
Staff Summary
·      2013 Resurfacing of Riverwoods Road, Fairfield Road, and O'Plaine Road: Consultant Agreement and Appropriation.
·      Consulting engineering services will be utilized to prepare plans, specifications, and estimates of costs for these roadway resurfacings for a 2013 letting.
·      The project will consist of Riverwoods Road, from Illinois Route 60 to Illinois Route 22, Fairfield Road, from Illinois Route 60 to Gilmer Road, and O'Plaine Road, from Washington Street to Illinois Route 137.
·      Using the Local Government Professional Services Selection Act, the selected and recommended consultant is McClure Engineering Associates, Inc., Waukegan, Illinois, at a maximum cost of services of $210,009.21.
·      This resolution appropriates $250,000 of Matching Tax funds for these engineering services.
 
Body
R E S O L U T I O N
 
WHEREAS, Riverwoods Road, County Highway 58, Fairfield Road, County Highway 49, and O'Plaine Road, County Highway 38, are designated routes on the County highway system; and
 
WHEREAS, it would be beneficial to the safety and welfare of the motoring public if Riverwoods Road, Fairfield Road, and O'Plaine Road could be resurfaced; and
 
WHEREAS, it is recommended that a consulting engineering firm be employed to provide Phase II design engineering services; 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, McClure Engineering Associates, Inc., Waukegan, Illinois, are consulting engineers skilled in the provision of said Phase II design engineering services.
 
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by this Lake County Board, that McClure Engineering Associates, Inc., Waukegan, Illinois, be employed to provide said Phase II design engineering services, and that the County Board Chair, 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 McClure Engineering Associates, Inc., Waukegan, Illinois, a draft copy of which is attached hereto, and such authorization shall include any necessary subsequent amendments.
 
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.
 
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that there is hereby appropriated $250,000.00 of Matching Tax funds for these engineering services, and designated as Section 13-00999-48-EG.
 
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 does not exceed the appropriations provided.
 
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on August 13, 2013.