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Joint resolution authorizing an agreement for Phase III professional engineering services with Hey and Associates, Volo, Illinois, for the construction of a proposed wetland mitigation bank at the Buffalo Creek Forest Preserve at a maximum cost of services described as $213,500, appropriating $260,000 of County Bridge Tax funds for these engineering services, and designated as Section 01-00000-00-ES.
Staff Summary
• Buffalo Creek Forest Preserve Wetland Bank: Phase III Consultant Agreement and Appropriation.
• The County has an intergovernmental agreement with the Lake County Forest Preserve District for construction of a County wetland mitigation bank, and a site has been identified at the Buffalo Creek Forest Preserve.
• A consultant will be utilized to undertake the Phase III construction engineering, as well as a five-year monitoring and management period, after construction, to ensure final permit compliance with the Army Corp of Engineers’ bank certification requirements.
• In accordance with the Local Government Professional Services Selection Act, the selected, and recommended, firm is Hey and Associates, Volo, Illinois, with a cost of $213,500.
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R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, the construction of improvements to designated routes on the County highway system sometimes results in minor impacts to adjacent wetlands; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to mitigate for impacts to wetlands caused by the construction of improvements to designated routes on the County highway system; and
WHEREAS, the use of wetland mitigation bank credits is an environmentally appropriate and cost-effective way of handling the mitigation of said minor wetland impacts; and
WHEREAS, Phase III construction engineering services are required for the proposed wetland mitigation bank at the Buffalo Creek Forest Preserve; and
WHEREAS, it is advisable that a consultant engineering firm be employed to provide said Phase III construction engineering services, as well as a five-year monitoring and management period, after construction, to ensure final permit compliance with the Army Corp of Engineers’ bank certification requirements; 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, Hey and Associates, Volo, Illinois, are consulting engineers skilled in the provision of said Phase III construction engineering services; and
WHEREAS, an appropriation of funds is required.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by this Lake County Board, that Hey and Associates, Volo, Illinois, be employed to provide said Phase III construction engineering services, and that the County Board Chair, the County Clerk, and the Acting 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 Hey and Associates, Volo, Illinois, in the amount of $213,500, a draft copy of which is attached hereto, and such authorization shall include any necessary subsequent amendments.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Acting County Engineer shall transmit, in writing, the final agreement and any amendments to be executed by the County Board Chair and the County Clerk.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that there is hereby appropriated $260,000 of County Bridge Tax funds for these engineering services, and designated as Section 01-00000-00-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 does not exceed the appropriations provided.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on August 8, 2017.