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Joint resolution authorizing a supplemental appropriation of $120,000 of 1/4% Sales Tax for Transportation funds and $100,000 of Matching Tax funds for fiscal year (FY) 2019 miscellaneous services needed to address items such as soil, environmental, drainage, bridge, wetland, utilities, easement and right-of-way purchases.
Staff Summary
* Miscellaneous services are needed to improve the County highway system.
* Before miscellaneous services for construction projects can be done utilizing these funds, an appropriation is needed.
* A supplemental appropriation is needed primarily to address the increased cost associated with soil disposal and utilities.
* The acquisition of these services is included in the Highway Improvement Program, and designated as Section 19-00000-02-EG.
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R E S O L U T I O N
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, Lake County, by and through its Division of Transportation, needs to acquire miscellaneous services from time-to-time to address items such as soil, environmental, drainage, bridge, wetland, utilities, easement and right-of-way purchases; and
WHEREAS, to acquire necessary miscellaneous services, an appropriation of funds is required each fiscal year; and
WHEREAS, this County Board at its meeting of October 9, 2018, approved appropriations of $85,000 of County Bridge Tax funds and $140,000 of Matching Tax funds for these services; and
WHEREAS, a supplemental appropriation is needed to address the increased cost associated with soil disposal and utilities.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by this Lake County Board, that there is hereby appropriated a supplemental amount of $120,000 of 1/4% Sales Tax for Transportation funds and $100,000 of Matching Tax funds for FY 2019 miscellaneous services needed to add...
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