Title
Joint resolution appropriating $335,000 of Matching Tax funds to provide for the Fiscal Year 2027 acquisition of materials and services needed to maintain items such as drainage and bridge facilities, pavements, shoulders, guardrails, fencing, signage, and right-of-way.
Staff Summary
• Miscellaneous maintenance materials and services are needed to maintain the county highways.
• Before materials can be ordered or work can be done, an appropriation is required.
• The acquisition of these materials and services is included in the Transportation Improvement Program and designated as Section 27-00000-03-GM.
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, needs to acquire highway maintenance materials and services from time to time; and
WHEREAS, to acquire necessary maintenance materials and services, an appropriation of funds is required each fiscal year.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that there is hereby appropriated $335,000 of Matching Tax funds for the Fiscal Year 2027 acquisition of materials and services needed to maintain items such as drainage and bridge facilities, pavements, shoulders, guardrails, fencing, signage, and right-of-way, and designated as Section 27-00000-03-GM.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on November 10, 2026.