Lake County, IL
File #: 23-1211    Version: 1 Name: Miscellaneous Maintenance 2023 Supplemental Appropriation
Type: resolution Status: Passed
File created: 8/23/2023 In control: Public Works and Transportation Committee
On agenda: Final action: 9/12/2023
Title: Joint resolution appropriating a supplemental amount of $70,000 of Matching Tax funds for Fiscal Year 2023 acquisition of materials and services needed to maintain items such as pavements, shoulders, guardrails, fencing, signage, and right-of-way.

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Joint resolution appropriating a supplemental amount of $70,000 of Matching Tax funds for Fiscal Year 2023 acquisition of materials and services needed to maintain items such as pavements, shoulders, guardrails, fencing, signage, and right-of-way.

 

Staff Summary

                     The Lake County Board, at its November 15, 2022 meeting, approved an appropriation of $35,000 of County Bridge Tax funds and $174,000 of Matching Tax funds.

                     Supplemental funds are needed to cover costs for additional drainage improvement projects and advanced tree removal work that needed to be completed to comply with new federal guidelines related to the Northern Long Eared Bat.

 

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RESOLUTION

 

WHEREAS, Lake County, by and through its Division of Transportation, maintains more than 50 bridges, approximately 300 centerline miles of designated County highways, and more than 60 miles of bike facilities on the County highway system; and

 

WHEREAS, general maintenance materials and services may include, but not be limited to, pavements, shoulders, guardrails, fencing, signage, and right-of-way; and

 

WHEREAS, additional ditching projects and tree removal projects were not anticipated at the time of the original appropriation; and

 

WHEREAS, the Lake County Board at its November 15, 2022 meeting approved an appropriation of $35,000 of County Bridge Tax funds and $174,000 of Matching Tax funds; and

 

WHEREAS, a supplemental appropriation of $70,000 is required to complete the 2023 contract period.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that there is hereby appropriated a supplemental amount of $70,000 of Matching Tax funds for purchase of materials and services to maintain the county highway system and designated as Section 23-00000-03-GM.

 

DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on September 12, 2023.