Title
Joint Resolution authorizing the Chair of the County Board, the County Clerk, and the County Engineer to execute a new master agreement between Lake County and the Village of Vernon Hills regarding the maintenance, construction and installation costs associated with current and future traffic control signals under the jurisdiction of the Lake County Division of Transportation.
Staff Summary
• County Signals; New Traffic Signal Master Agreement: Village of Vernon Hills
• Traffic signals were installed on county highways within the boundaries of the Village of Vernon Hills including Emergency Vehicle Preemption Systems (EVPS) which are currently maintained by the Village of Vernon Hills.
• Lake County is revising all EVPS master agreements so that the local agency will be responsible for maintenance and future cost of the emitters and LCDOT will be responsible for maintenance and future cost for preemption systems.
• Lake County is incorporating the EVPS changes into new traffic signal master agreements with the communities regarding the maintenance, construction and installation costs associated with current and future County owned traffic control signals.
Body
WHEREAS, Lake County by and through its Division of Transportation has jurisdiction and ownership of the traffic control signals and equipment at intersections equipped with emergency vehicle pre-emption systems (EVPS) and located within the Village of Vernon Hills area of jurisdiction; and
WHEREAS, by prior agreement between Lake County and the Village of Vernon Hills, the above-said emergency vehicle pre-emption systems were and are maintained at the expense of the Village of Vernon Hills; and
WHEREAS, Lake County and the Village of Vernon Hills now desire to enter into a master agreement providing the terms and conditions by which the Village of Vernon Hills will be financially responsible for the maintenance and future costs of the emitters associated with the emergency vehicle pre-emption systems and Lake County will be responsible for maintenance and future costs of the emergency vehicle pre-emption systems that would be under the jurisdiction of the Lake County Division of Transportation and within the Village of Vernon Hills area of jurisdiction, a draft copy of said agreement is attached hereto; and
WHEREAS, it is in the best interest of Lake County to authorize the County Engineer of Lake County to include additional emergency vehicle pre-emption systems within future traffic control signals, as may be warranted from time-to-time, and are under the jurisdiction of Lake County and within the master agreement between Lake County and the Village of Vernon Hills.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, that the Chair of the County Board, the County Clerk, and the County Engineer of Lake County, Illinois, be authorized, and they are hereby directed to execute a master agreement by which the Village of Vernon Hills will be financially responsible for the maintenance and future cost of the emitters associated with the above-said emergency vehicle pre-emption systems and Lake County will be responsible for maintenance and future costs of the emergency vehicle pre-emption systems at said intersections. 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 the County Engineer of Lake County is hereby authorized to include within the above-said master agreement between Lake County and the Village of Vernon Hills additional traffic control signals, as may be warranted from time-to-time, and that are within the jurisdiction of Lake County Division of Transportation in accordance with said master agreement.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the above-said master agreement takes the place of and supersedes all prior agreements relative to the maintenance of emergency vehicle pre-emptions systems in accordance with the said master agreement.
Dated at Waukegan, Illinois
this 14TH day of October 2008