Lake County Illinois - File #: 08-0707

• File #: 08-0707
• Version: 1
• Name: Inter/Intra County Paratransit Transportation Plan Project Agreement: Various Townships
• Type: resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 9/26/2008
• In control: Public Works and Transportation Committee
• Final action: 10/14/2008
• Title: Joint Resolution authorizing the Chair of the County Board, the County Clerk, and the County Engineer to execute an agreement among Lake County and various townships for the equally shared costs of the local match for the federal funds administered by the Regional Transportation Authority through its Regional Technical Assistance Program for the Inter/Intra County Paratransit Plan Project and designated as Section 08-00280-00-ES.

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
10/14/2008	1	Lake County Board	adopted	Pass
10/1/2008	1	Financial & Administrative Committee	recommended for adoption to the consent agenda	Pass
10/1/2008	1	Public Works and Transportation Committee	approved and referred on to the Financial and Administrative Committee	Pass

Title
Joint Resolution authorizing the Chair of the County Board, the County Clerk, and the County Engineer to execute an agreement among Lake County and various townships for the equally shared costs of the local match for the federal funds administered by the Regional Transportation Authority through its Regional Technical Assistance Program for the Inter/Intra County Paratransit Plan Project and designated as Section 08-00280-00-ES.

Staff Summary
· Inter/Intra County Paratransit Transportation Plan Project Agreement: Various Townships
· Lake County has secured $100,000.00 of RTA grant funding for transit planning projects that enhance transit, including studies for new institutional arrangements to address emerging transportation needs within non-traditional markets.
· Financial participation by certain townships towards the 20% match is provided by this agreement.
· This resolution authorizes the execution of agreements with the following townships: Antioch, Avon, Cuba, Ela, Fremont, Grant, Lake Villa, Libertyville, Moraine, Vernon, Warren, Wauconda, West Deerfield and Zion.
Body
WHEREAS, this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, by prior resolution at its meeting of November 14, 2006 adopted a resolution in support of the Lake County Coordinated Services Committees (LCCSC) goal to develop a plan to provide borderless paratransit service in Lake County to meet the need of those mobility challenged constitutes populations in Lake County, which may include the poor, the elderly, those with medical needs and/or the disabled, who have been determined to be eligible by the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA), or a service board of the RTA, for existing and future local, state and/or federally funded non-traditional transit service program; and

WHEREAS, this County Board of Lake County, Illinois by prior resolution at its meeting of June 10, 2008, endorsed the revised “Plan for using the new Collar County Transportation Empowerment Funds” (the plan) as...