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Joint resolution authorizing the execution of an agreement for the use of federal highway funds between the State of Illinois and Lake County for the U.S. Route 45 Millburn Community Preservation Bypass Improvement Phase I Engineering Services, designated as Section No. 05-00262-02-RP
Staff Summary
· U.S. Route 45; IL Route 132 to IL Route 173 Millburn Bypass, Phase I: IDOT Agreement.
· The County has been allocated federal funds to improve this intersection and IDOT administers all federal highway funds.
· This resolution authorizes the execution of a agreement with IDOT to provide the County with an 80% reimbursement for the costs of Phase I engineering services.
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R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, Millburn Road, County Highway 14, and Grass Lake Road, County Highway 18, are designated routes on the county highway system; and
WHEREAS, it would be beneficial for the safety and welfare of the motoring public if US Route 45 could be relocated around the historic hamlet of Millburn to provide increased traffic capacities and if Grass Lake Road and Millburn Road, in said area, could be improved to accommodate said relocation, designated as the Millburn Community Preservation Bypass Improvement; and
WHEREAS, the County Board at its meeting of July 12, 1994 passed a resolution adding that portion of existing US Route 45 between Millburn Road and Grass Lake Road to the county highway system and designated as County Highway 14, with said addition contingent upon approval of the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) and as part of said relocation of US Route 45; and
WHEREAS, the County Board at its meeting of November 18, 2008 approved the county-funded and county-lead Phase I preliminary engineering study for this proposed by-pass and in a manner to be eligible for the use of federal highway funding; and
WHEREAS, during the course of the Phase I preliminary engineering study, IDOT and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) required an expansion of the logical limits of the Environmental Assessment of said study to be from IL Rte 132 and IL Rte 173 along US Rte 45; and
WHEREAS, the Public Works and Transportation Committee at its meeting of June 3, 2009, approved a Letter of Intent with IDOT to expand the scope of work and for IDOT funding any additional work required; and
WHEREAS, the Public Works and Transportation Committee at its meeting of April 7, 2010, approved change order #1 in the amount of $312,256.06 for additional Phase I engineering services required by IDOT; and
WHEREAS, the State of Illinois and Lake County are desirous on entering into an agreement for said additional Phase I engineering services and IDOT reimbursement; a draft copy of which is attached hereto.
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 on behalf of Lake County an agreement for the reimbursement of additional Phase I engineering services for the U.S. Route 45 Millburn Community Preservation Bypass Improvement and such authorization shall include any subsequent amendments.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the County Engineer shall transmit, in writing, the final agreement, and any subsequent amendments, to be executed by the County Board Chair and the County Clerk.
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.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of 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 on June 14, 2011.