Title
Joint resolution authorizing an emergency appropriation in the amount of $466,000 for two (2) Wetland Restoration Projects identified as the Skokie River Woods Project in the amount of $380,000 and the Dalitsch Pond Project, in the amount of $86,000, both within the North Branch of the Chicago River Watershed.
Staff Summary
• Money collected into the Wetland Restoration Fund (WRF) due to wetland impacts is carried over into a deferred revenue account for this fund purpose. In order to access it, an emergency appropriation is needed to bring it into the budget for expenditure.
• The emergency appropriation will allow the use of $466,000 of the WRF to provide 8.06 acres of wetland mitigation credits at the Skokie River Woods and Dalitsch Pond Projects.
• This purchase provides mitigation for impacts to 2.25 acres of Isolated Waters of Lake County (IWLC) with restored and enhanced wetlands. A net gain in high quality wetland acreage (+5.81 acres) and wetland function will be realized, which meets purpose #10 in the Lake County Watershed Development Ordinance (WDO).
• These funds will be deposited in the Stormwater Management Commission’s Miscellaneous Contractual Services account 212-4208110-79940-000-000-000-42032.
Body
WHEREAS, the Stormwater Management Commission provides for various Wetland Restoration projects; and
WHEREAS, the Stormwater Management Commission has agreed to appropriate $466,000 for such projects using Stormwater Management Wetland Restoration Fund Permit Fees - North Branch of the Chicago River; and
WHEREAS, there are sufficient funds available in the Stormwater Management Commission Deferred Revenue account 212-0000000-22300-000-000-000-42032 to cover this emergency appropriation.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois that an emergency appropriation in the amount of $466,000 in the Stormwater Management Commission’s Miscellaneous Contractual Services 212-4208110-79940-000-000-000-42032 for two (2) Wetland Restoration Projects identified as the Skokie River Woods Project in the amount of $380,000 and the Dalitsch Pond Project, in the amount of $86,000, both within the North Branch of the Chicago River Watershed is hereby approved; and
WHEREAS, there will be a $466,000 increase in the revenue budget 212-4208110-48340-000-000-000-42032.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on this 11th day of August, A.D., 2009.