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Joint resolution authorizing the execution of an agreement with the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) for the Phase I preliminary engineering services for the Gilmer Road and Illinois Route 120 intersection improvement as part of the Illinois Route 120 Unified Vision Plan, and designating as Section 08-00073-08-CH.
Staff Summary
• Illinois Route 120 Corridor Unified Vision Plan, Gilmer Road: IDOT Agreement.
• The County has been allocated federal funds for work on the Illinois Route 120 corridor and IDOT administers all federal highway funds.
• The allocated amounts will be utilized to improve the Illinois Rte 120 corridor by improvements to the intersection of Gilmer Road and Illinois Route 120.
• This agreement provides for the County to receive up to 80% reimbursement for the costs of Phase I preliminary engineering.
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R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, the Unified Vision Plan for Illinois Route 120 was adopted on October 14, 2009; and
WHEREAS, a portion of the Unified Vision Plan for Illinois Route 120 was an improved intersection of Gilmer Road and Illinois Route 120; and
WHEREAS, Gilmer Road, County Highway 26, is a designated route on the County highway system and in the Illinois Route 120 corridor; and
WHEREAS, for the free flow of traffic at the intersection of Gilmer Road and Illinois Route 120 and such adjacent intersections, as appropriate, is beneficial to the safety and welfare of the State of Illinois and the County as a whole; and
WHEREAS, the State of Illinois and Lake County believe it would be beneficial to the safety and welfare of the motoring public if the intersection of Gilmer Road and Illinois Route 120, and such adjacent intersections, as appropriate, could be improved by realignment and new traffic signals; and
WHEREAS, federal funds totaling $1,496,047, and requiring a 20 percent local share match of the total cost, were granted to Lake County in 2008 and 2009 for work in the Illinois Route 120 corridor; and
WHEREAS, the State of Illinois and Lake County are desirous of entering into an agreement to utilize said federal highway funds for the improvement of the Illinois Route 120 corridor by realignment and new traffic signals at the intersection of Gilmer Road and Illinois Route 120 and such adjacent intersections, as appropriate, setting forth the terms and obligations to each agency, a draft copy of which is attached hereto; and
WHEREAS, additional federal funds in the amounts of $600,000 has also been granted to Lake County, which requires a local match and can be utilized for other phases of the improvement to be identified from the preliminary engineering work heretofore described.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by this Lake County Board, that the County Board Chair, the County Clerk and the County Engineer of Lake County are authorized and they are directed to execute an agreement and any subsequent amendments thereto, for the improvement at Gilmer Road and Illinois Route 120 and such adjacent intersections, as appropriate, and currently designated by IDOT as Section 06-00274-00-ES.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the 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 the County Engineer submit whatever documentation is required by IDOT to obligate the funds and for reimbursement to the Lake County Division of Transportation for expenditures made to provide preliminary engineering for the improvement at Gilmer Road and Illinois Route 120 and such adjacent intersections, as appropriate, and to have the section number designation changed from 06-00274-00-ES to 08-00073-08-CH.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the County Engineer is hereby directed to work with IDOT to enable the County to use all federal funds described in this resolution to improve the Illinois Route 120 corridor via improvements to the intersection of Gilmer Road and Illinois Route 120 and such adjacent intersections as appropriate.
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, on April 10, 2012.