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Joint resolution authorizing the execution of an agreement for consulting engineering services between Lake County and McClure Engineering Associates, Waukegan, Illinois, for Phase I and II engineering services for the removal of the intersection of Kennedy Drive at O’Plaine Road and to make an internal roadway improvements in the adjacent subdivision at a maximum cost of $52,157.50 and appropriates $65,000 of Matching Tax funds and designated as Section 09-00109-06-CH.
Staff Summary
· O’Plaine Road at Kennedy Drive; Phase I and II: Consultant Agreement and Appropriation.
· Phase I and II consulting engineering services to remove the intersection of Kennedy Drive at O'Plaine Road as it is too close to Illinois Route 120.
· Engineering work includes preparing a new connection to Kennedy Drive via for a new roadway in the subdivision.
· This work is being coordinated with the City of Waukegan.
· The selected and recommended consultant is McClure Engineering Associates, Waukegan, Illinois, at a maximum cost of services described of $52,157.50.
· The resolution also appropriates $65,000 of Matching Tax funds for this improvement.
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R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, O’Plaine Road, County Highway 38, is a designated route on the county highway system; and
WHEREAS, Kennedy Drive intersects O’Plaine Road just south of Illinois Route 120; and
WHEREAS, it would be beneficial for the safety and welfare of the motoring public if the intersection of Kennedy Drive at O’Plaine Road could be removed in cooperation with the City of Waukegan; and
WHEREAS, the removal of the intersection of Kennedy Drive at O’Plaine Road requires that the public road access to the subdivision currently served by Kennedy Drive be served instead by a new road connection to Kennedy Drive with an extension of West Avenue, in cooperation with the City of Waukegan; and
WHEREAS it is advisable that a consultant engineering firm be employed to provide Phase I and II engineering services f...
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