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Joint resolution authorizing the execution of an agreement with Alfred Benesch & Company, Chicago, Illinois, for the advance contract construction inspection of the intersection improvement of Fairfield Road, at Illinois Route 176, for a maximum cost of $684,650, and appropriating $820,000 of ¼ % Sales Tax for Transportation and Public Safety funds designated as Section 08-00113-16-BR.
Staff Summary
· Fairfield Road at Illinois Route 176 Intersection Improvement; Advance Contract: Consultant Agreement and Appropriation.
· The intersection of Fairfield Road, at Illinois Route 176, will be improved in 2013, and an advance contract will be let in 2012.
· The 2012 advance contract is to realign the Millennium and Fort Hill trails, construct two pedestrian underpasses under Illinois Route 176, and construct a new relocated entrance for the Lakewood Forest Preserve.
· The selected and recommended consultant to provide construction engineering services is Alfred Benesch & Company, Chicago, Illinois, at a maximum cost of $684,650.
· This resolution authorizes execution of the agreement and appropriates $820,000 of ¼% Sales Tax for Transportation and Public Safety funds for these engineering services.
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R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, Fairfield Road (County Highway 49) is a designated route on the County highway system; and
WHEREAS, it would be beneficial for the safety and welfare of the motoring public if Fairfield Road, at Illinois Route 176 (Fairfield/176 Junction Improvement), could be improved to provide increased traffic capacities; and
WHEREAS, an advance contract is required to complete the Millennium and Fort Hill trails realignment, construct the two pedestrian underpasses under Illinois Route 176, and construct a new relocated entrance for the Lakewood Forest Preserve in 2012 to enable the intersection improvement of Fairfield Road, at Illinois Route 176, to be completed in 2013; and
WHEREAS, it is advisable that a consultant engineering fir...
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