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Joint resolution providing: 1) An appropriation of $650,000 of Motor Fuel Tax funds for 2009 Patrol One for the supply of ice control material and designated as Section 09-00000-00-GM; and 2) Authorizing a line item transfer of $650,000 from account 268-4300030-85020 to account 268-4300040-65030.
Staff Summary
· 2009 MFT Appropriation and Line Item Transfer: Ice Control Materials.
· Patrol I are those maintenance materials and activities paid out of the Motor Fuel Tax fund and include material supply contracts such as ice control salt.
· At this point in the 2008-2009 winter season there has been 44 snow events compared to 25 snow events last year at this same point in time.
· The amount of the 2008 appropriation for Patrol One salt materials has proven to be inadequate for the 2008-2009 snow season.
· An appropriation of $650,000 is made from the Motor Fuel Tax Fund.
· A like reduction is made in the construction portion of the Motor Fuel Tax Fund 2009 Budget.
Body
WHEREAS, the Lake County Division of Transportation has purchased or has on order the entire 18,870 tons of ice control salt previously contracted for the 2008-2009 snow season; and
WHEREAS, there exits a need to purchase additional ice control material in order to maintain an adequate supply for the remainder of the 2008-2009 snow season; and
WHEREAS, in order to provide for the acquisition of addition ice control materials an appropriation of $650,000 of Motor Fuel Tax funds is required.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that there is hereby provided an appropriation of $650,000 of Motor Fuel Tax funds for the acquisition for the above-said additional ice control material and designated as Section 09-00000-00-GM.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that there is hereby provide a line of transfer of $650,000 from account 268-4300030-85020 to account 268-4300040-65030.
Dated at Waukegan, Illinois this 20th day of January 2009 County Engin...
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