Title
Joint resolution authorizing the first amendment to the Amended and Restated Agreement for Retail Sanitary Sewer Service between Lake County and the Village of Hawthorn Woods.
Staff Summary
• The County and the Village of Hawthorn Woods entered into an Amended and Restated Agreement for Retail Sanitary Sewer Service, dated April 8, 2025.
• The Village desires to amend the agreement to offer sanitary sewer service to a 56-acre property designated as “Kemper Ridge,” which will consist of residential development.
• The County’s extension of retail sanitary sewer service will ensure continued sanitary sewer collection, transportation, and treatment to the areas of the Village to be served under this agreement.
• The Village of Hawthorn Woods is scheduled to act on the amended agreement at the Village Board meeting on October 20, 2025.
• The County has determined that, subject to the agreed terms and conditions in the agreement and amendment, the new properties are feasible for the purpose of constructing the residential development.
• This resolution authorizes execution of the first amendment of the Amended and Restated Agreement between the County and the Village of Hawthorn Woods.
• In accordance with County Board Rules, the State’s Attorney’s Office has reviewed this first amendment to the Agreement prior to action by the County Board.
Body
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the County of Lake (County) owns and operates a system of interceptor sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment facilities to transport and treat sewage in portions of the Southeast Lake Facilities Planning Area and South Central Lake Facilities Planning Area; and
WHEREAS, the County and Village of Hawthorn Woods (Village) entered into their Amended and Restated Agreement for Retail Sanitary Sewer Service, dated April 8, 2025; and
WHEREAS, the Village has requested the County expand its retail sanitary sewer service within the Village to an additional property designated as “Kemper Ridge,” that would be served by the County’s Southeast Sewerage System; and
WHEREAS, the County can accommodate the Village’s request and therefore the parties desire to enter into this First Amendment to the Amended and Restated Agreement for Retail Sanitary Sewage Service; and
WHEREAS, the execution of this First Amendment to the Restated and Amended Agreement must be authorized by Resolution of this County Board.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that the Chair of the County Board and the Clerk of said County be and they are hereby authorized and directed to execute the First Amendment to the Amended and Restated Agreement for Retail Sanitary Sewerage Service, in the form substantially herein.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on November 18, 2025.