Lake County Illinois - File #: 13-1269

• File #: 13-1269
• Version: 1
• Name: O’Plaine Road at Kennedy Drive Reconstruction Improvement, Right-of-Way Acquisition: Appropriation with Condemnation Authority
• Type: resolution
• Status: Consent Agenda
• File created: 10/30/2013
• In control: Public Works and Transportation Committee
• Final action: 11/12/2013
• Title: Joint resolution appropriating $60,000 of 1/4 percent sales tax for Transportation and Public Safety funds for the acquisition of necessary right-of-way, by agreement or condemnation, and other right-of-way costs associated with the removal of the intersection of O’Plaine Road at Kennedy Drive and to make an internal roadway improvement in the adjacent subdivision, and designated as Section 09-00109-06-CH

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
11/12/2013	1	Lake County Board	adopted	Pass
11/6/2013	1	Financial & Administrative Committee	recommended for adoption to the consent agenda	Pass
11/6/2013	1	Public Works and Transportation Committee	approved and referred on to the Financial and Administrative Committee	Pass

Title
Joint resolution appropriating $60,000 of 1/4 percent sales tax for Transportation and Public Safety funds for the acquisition of necessary right-of-way, by agreement or condemnation, and other right-of-way costs associated with the removal of the intersection of O’Plaine Road at Kennedy Drive and to make an internal roadway improvement in the adjacent subdivision, and designated as Section 09-00109-06-CH

Staff Summary
· O’Plaine Road at Kennedy Drive Improvement, Right-of-Way Acquisition: Appropriation with Condemnation Authority.
· Preliminary plans and specifications for this improvement have been prepared.
· Before right-of-way acquisitions can proceed, an appropriation and condemnation authority is necessary.
· The appropriation is $60,000 of 1/4 percent sales tax for Transportation and Public Safety funds.

Body
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, the free flow of traffic on O’Plaine Road at Kennedy Drive is beneficial to the safety and welfare of the State of Illinois and the County as a whole; and

WHEREAS, the State of Illinois, acting by and through its Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT), and Lake County believe it would be beneficial for the safety and welfare of the motoring public if O’Plaine Road at Kennedy Drive could be improved by the removal of the intersection and making an internal roadway improvement in the adjacent subdivision; and

WHEREAS, Lake County, by and through its Division of Transportation, has caused to be prepared preliminary plans and right-of-way plats, said plats identifying right-of-way needs; and

WHEREAS, the right-of-way and associated costs are estimated to be $50,000.

NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by this Lake County Board:

SECTION 1: It is hereby determined that it is necessary, and desirable, that Lake County acquire title to, and possession of, all of the real property within the proposed new right-of...