Title
Joint Resolution authorizing the Chair of the County Board, the County Clerk and the County Engineer to execute an agreement between Lake County and Gewalt Hamilton Associates, Inc., Vernon Hills, Illinois, for the provision of Phase II engineering services (Design Engineering) for the improvement to the traffic control signals situated at ten (10) intersections along Grand Avenue from IL Rte. 131 to Sheridan Road at a cost of services described of $134,802.62. This resolution appropriates $160,000 of Matching Tax funds for these engineering services designated as Section 08-00279-00-TL.
Staff Summary
• Grand Avenue (IL Rte. 131 to Sheridan Road), Traffic Signal Interconnect; Phase II: Consultant Agreement.
• A consultant will be utilized to undertake Phase II engineering services (Design Engineering).
• The selected and recommended engineering firm is Gewalt Hamilton
Associates, Inc., Vernon Hills, Illinois for a cost of $134,802.62, though IDOT approval is required.
• The cost of services described is $134,802.62.
• This resolution appropriates $160,000 of Matching Tax funds for these engineering services designated as Section 08-00279-00-TL.
Body
R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, Grand Avenue is an unmarked state route for which the City of Waukegan provides signal maintenance; and
WHEREAS, it would be beneficial to the safety and welfare of the motoring public if the traffic control signals situated at ten (10) intersections along Grand Avenue between IL Rte. 131 and Sheridan Road could be modernized and interconnected; and
WHEREAS, the City of Waukegan and Lake County have entered into an agreement for the improvement and maintenance of the traffic control signals along Grand Avenue between IL Rte. 131 and Sheridan Road, approved at the June 10, 2008 County Board Meeting; and
WHEREAS, Lake County under terms of said agreement, is the local lead agency for the improvement of said traffic control signals; and
WHEREAS, it is advisable that a consultant engineering firm be employed to provide said Phase II engineering services (Design Engineering) for the above-said improvement to the traffic control signals situated along Grand Avenue between IL Rte. 131 and Sheridan Road; 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, Gewalt Hamilton Associates, Inc., Vernon Hills, 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 Gewalt Hamilton Associates, Inc., Vernon Hills, 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 Gewalt Hamilton Associates, Inc., Vernon Hills, 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 herby appropriated $160,000.00 of Matching Tax funds for these engineering services designated as Section 08-00279-00-TL.
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.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this agreement when executed in its final form be submitted to the Illinois Department of Transportation for their approval and final processing.
Dated at Waukegan, Illinois
this 12th day of August 2008