Title
Joint resolution appropriating $460,000 of ¼% Sales Tax for Transportation funds for Fiscal Year 2026 general engineering and support services needed to address items such as soil, environmental, drainage, bridge, wetland, and land acquisition.
Staff Summary
• General engineering and support services are needed throughout the year to supplement in-house design services and improve the county highway system.
• An appropriation of funds is required each fiscal year for these support services.
• The acquisition of these services is included in the Transportation Improvement Program and designated as Section 26-00000-02-EG.
Body
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 65 miles of shared-use paths on the county highway system; and
WHEREAS, Lake County, by and through its Division of Transportation, periodically needs general engineering and support services for items such as soil, environmental, drainage, bridge, wetland, and land acquisition; and
WHEREAS, an appropriation of funds is required each year for these services.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that there is hereby appropriated $460,000 of ¼% Sales Tax for Transportation funds for Fiscal Year 2026 general engineering and support services needed for items such as soil, environmental, drainage, bridge, wetland, and land acquisition during Fiscal Year 2026, and designated as Section 26-00000-02-EG.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on November 18, 2025.