Lake County, IL
File #: 10-0831    Version: 1 Name: Peterson Rd at IL Rte. 60, Relocation: Construction Appropriation
Type: resolution Status: Passed
File created: 8/31/2010 In control: Public Works and Transportation Committee
On agenda: Final action: 9/14/2010
Title: Joint resolution authorizing the appropriation of $11,040,000 of ΒΌ% Sales Tax for Transportation and Public Safety funds for the relocation and reconstruction of Peterson Road at IL Rte. 60 and designated as Section 00-00098-11-CH.

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Joint resolution authorizing the appropriation of $11,040,000 of ¼% Sales Tax for Transportation and Public Safety funds for the relocation and reconstruction of Peterson Road at IL Rte. 60 and designated as Section 00-00098-11-CH.

 

Staff Summary

                     Peterson Rd at IL Rte. 60, Relocation: Construction Appropriation

                     The relocation of Peterson Rd at IL Rte. 60 is included in the county’s 2010-2015 Highway Improvement Program.

                     Before a construction letting can be held an appropriation of $11,040,000 of ¼% Sales Tax for Transportation and Public Safety funds is required.

 

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R E S O L U T I O N

 

WHEREAS, Peterson Road (County Highway 20) is a designated route on the county highway system; and

     

WHEREAS, the free flow of traffic along Peterson Road is beneficial to the safety and welfare to the State of Illinois and the county as a whole; and

 

WHEREAS, Lake County believes it would be beneficial to the safety and welfare of the motoring public if Peterson Road at its intersection with IL Rte. 60 could be relocated; and

 

WHEREAS, plans, specifications and estimates of cost for this improvement have been completed and this improvement is now ready to proceed to contract letting; and

 

                     WHEREAS, before a construction letting can be held, an appropriation of funds is needed.

 

NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that there is hereby appropriated $11,040,000 of ¼% Sales Tax for Transportation and Public Safety funds for the relocation and reconstruction of Peterson Road at IL Rte. 60 and designated as Section 10-00098-11-CH.

 

     

Dated at Waukegan, Illinois, on this 14th day of September A.D., 2010