Title
Resolution authorizing the dissolution of the Avon Fremont Drainage District.
Staff Summary
* The Avon-Fremont Drainage District (AFDD) is one of four remaining drainage districts for Lake County and includes parcels in the Villages of Grayslake, Hainesville, Libertyville, Round Lake Beach, Round Lake Park and unincorporated Lake County.
* Section 10/7.3 of the Illinois Drainage Code (70 ILCS 605/10-7.3) states that the drainage district may be dissolved if each municipality that has territory within the drainage district and the county in which the drainage district lies adopt a resolution or ordinance dissolving the drainage district that states: (1) that there are no outstanding debts of the district that have been filed with the county clerk; and (2) that federal or State permits or grants will not be impaired by dissolution of the district.
* The Village of Grayslake accounts for 74.67 percent of the drainage district's territory and the ongoing work of the drainage district to complete creek maintenance and animal control is within the municipal boundaries of Grayslake.
* Resolutions have been passed in support of the dissolution of the drainage district by the Villages of Hainesville, Libertyville, Round Lake Beach, and Round Lake Park and the Avon-Fremont Drainage District Board.
* The Village of Grayslake will pass the final resolution in favor of the dissolution at their Board meeting in January 2026.
Body
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the Avon-Fremont Drainage District ("District") is a Drainage District wholly within Lake County and within the Lake Michigan Watershed and consists of territory lying within the Villages of Grayslake, Hainesville, Libertyville, Round Lake Beach and Round Lake Park and unincorporated Lake County has a stormwater management planning committee operating under Section 5-1062 of the Counties Code (55 ILCS 5/5-1062); and
WHEREAS, the District has historically derived its revenue from an annual assessment placed upon the tax...
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