Lake County Illinois - File #: 09-1778

• File #: 09-1778
• Version: 1
• Name: SMC Wetland Restoration Fund - Fox River Watershed Emergency Appropriation
• Type: resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 7/22/2009
• In control: Planning, Building and Zoning Committee
• Final action: 8/11/2009
• Title: Joint resolution authorizing an emergency appropriation in the amount of $158,250 for the purchase of 2.11 acres of Wetland Mitigation Credits at the Big Sag Wetland Mitigation Bank (Phase 2) within the Fox River Watershed.

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
8/11/2009	1	Lake County Board	adopted	Pass
8/5/2009	1	Financial & Administrative Committee	recommended for adoption to the regular agenda	Pass
8/4/2009	1	Planning, Building and Zoning Committee	approved and referred on to the Financial and Administrative Committee	Pass

Title

Joint resolution authorizing an emergency appropriation in the amount of $158,250 for the purchase of 2.11 acres of Wetland Mitigation Credits at the Big Sag Wetland Mitigation Bank (Phase 2) within the Fox River Watershed.

Staff Summary

•                     Money collected into the Wetland Restoration Fund (WRF) due to wetland impacts is carried over into a deferred revenue account for this fund purpose.  In order to access it, an emergency appropriation is needed to bring it into the budget for expenditure.

•                     The emergency appropriation will allow the use of $158,250 of the WRF to purchase 2.11 acres of wetland mitigation credits at the Big Sag Mitigation Bank (Phase 2).

•                     This purchase provides mitigation for impacts to 1.36 acres of Isolated Waters of Lake County (IWLC) with newly constructed wetlands at the mitigation bank.  A net gain in high quality wetland acreage (+0.75 acre) and wetland function will be realized, which meets purpose #10 in the Lake County Watershed Development Ordinance (WDO).

•                     These funds will be deposited in the Stormwater Management Commission’s Miscellaneous Contractual Services account 212-4208110-79940-000-000-000-42030.

Body

WHEREAS, the Stormwater Management Commission provides for various Wetland Restoration projects; and,

WHEREAS, the Stormwater Management Commission has agreed to appropriate $158,250 for such projects using Stormwater Management Wetland Restoration Fund Permit Fees - Fox River; and,

WHEREAS, there are sufficient funds available in the Stormwater Management Commission’s Deferred Revenue account 212-0000000-22300-000-000-000-42030 to cover this emergency appropriation.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that an emergency appropriation in the amount of $158,250 in the Stormwater Management Commission’s Miscellaneous Contractual Services 212-4208110-79940-000-000-000-42030 for the Purchase of 2.11 acres of Wetland Mitigation Credits at the Big Sag Mitigation Bank (Phase 2) is hereby approved; and,

WHEREAS, there will be a $158,250 increase in the Revenue budget 212-4208110-48340-000-000-000-42030.

DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on this 11^th day of August, A.D. 2009.