Title
Joint resolution appropriating $265,000 of Matching Tax funds for the roadway improvement of Sunset Avenue, 450 feet east and west of the Union Pacific Railroad overpass, and designated as Section 11-00169-07-LS.
Staff Summary
· Sunset Avenue Roadway Improvement Appropriation.
· Sunset Avenue will be improved by constructing steel backed wood guardrail in the median and outside the pavement; removing the existing hot-mix asphalt median surface; constructing landscape areas with trees, shrubs, perennials and retaining walls; furnishing and placing aggregate landscape mulch around the planted areas; and other related work.
· This improvement is included in the 2013 Program.
· Before a project letting can be held, an appropriation of $265,000 of Matching Tax funds is necessary.
Body
R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, Sunset Avenue, County Highway 46, is a designated route on the County highway system; and
WHEREAS, Lake County believes it would be beneficial to the safety and welfare of the motoring public if Sunset Avenue, 450 feet east and west of the Union Pacific Railroad overpass, could be improved by constructing steel backed wood guardrail in the median and outside the pavement; removing the existing hot-mix asphalt median surface; constructing landscape areas with trees, shrubs, perennials and retaining walls; furnishing and placing aggregate landscape mulch around the planted areas; and other related work; and
WHEREAS, plans, specifications and estimates of costs for this improvement have been completed, and this improvement is now ready to proceed to contract letting; and
WHEREAS, before a construction letting can be held, an appropriation of funds is needed.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by this Lake County Board, that there is hereby appropriated $265,000 of Matching Tax funds for the roadway improvement of Sunset Avenue, 450 feet east and west of the Union Pacific Railroad overpass, and designated as Section 11-00169-07-LS.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on July 9, 2013.