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Joint resolution authorizing an agreement with Reynolds, Smith and Hills, Inc., St Charles, Illinois, for Phase I preliminary engineering for the intersection improvement of Wadsworth Road at Lewis Avenue, for a maximum cost of services described as $361,957.36, appropriating $435,000 of 1/4 percent Sales Tax for Transportation and Public Safety funds, and designated as Section 13-00055-06-WR.
Staff Summary
· Wadsworth Road at Lewis Avenue; Phase I: Consultant Agreement and Appropriation.
· Wadsworth Road at Lewis Avenue needs to be widened and reconstructed.
· Consulting engineering services will be utilized to complete the Phase I preliminary engineering.
· The selected, and recommended, consultant is Reynolds, Smith and Hills, Inc., St Charles, Illinois, at a maximum cost of $361,957.36.
· The resolution also appropriates $435,000 of 1/4 percent Sales Tax for Transportation and Public Safety funds for these engineering services.
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R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, it would be beneficial for the safety and welfare of the motoring public if Wadsworth Road at Lewis Avenue, could be improved by widening and reconstruction; and
WHEREAS, it is recommended that a consultant engineering firm be employed to provide Phase I preliminary engineering services for said proposed widening and reconstruction; 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, Reynolds, Smith and Hills, Inc., St Charles, Illinois, are consulting engineers skilled in the provision of said Phase I preliminary engineering services.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by this Lake County Board, that Reynolds, Smith and Hills, Inc., St. Charles, Illinois, be employed to provide said Phase I preliminary engineering services for a maximum cost of $361,957.36, 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, a draft copy of said agreement attached hereto, for consultant engineering services with Reynolds, Smith and Hills, Inc., St. Charles, Illinois, 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 $435,000 of ¼% Sales Tax for Transportation and Public Safety funds for these engineering services, and designated as Section 13-00055-06-WR.
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 appropriation.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on November 12, 2013.