Lake County Illinois - File #: 13-1267

• File #: 13-1267
• Version: 1
• Name: Wadsworth Road at Lewis Avenue; Phase I: Consultant Agreement and Appropriation
• 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 authorizing an agreement with Reynolds, Smith and Hills, Inc., St Charles, Illinois, for Phase I preliminary engineering for the intersection improvement of Wadsworth Road at Lewis Avenue, for a maximum cost of services described as $361,957.36, appropriating $435,000 of 1/4 percent Sales Tax for Transportation and Public Safety funds, and designated as Section 13-00055-06-WR.

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 authorizing an agreement with Reynolds, Smith and Hills, Inc., St Charles, Illinois, for Phase I preliminary engineering for the intersection improvement of Wadsworth Road at Lewis Avenue, for a maximum cost of services described as $361,957.36, appropriating $435,000 of 1/4 percent Sales Tax for Transportation and Public Safety funds, and designated as Section 13-00055-06-WR.

Staff Summary
· Wadsworth Road at Lewis Avenue; Phase I: Consultant Agreement and Appropriation.
· Wadsworth Road at Lewis Avenue needs to be widened and reconstructed.
· Consulting engineering services will be utilized to complete the Phase I preliminary engineering.
· The selected, and recommended, consultant is Reynolds, Smith and Hills, Inc., St Charles, Illinois, at a maximum cost of $361,957.36.
· The resolution also appropriates $435,000 of 1/4 percent Sales Tax for Transportation and Public Safety funds for these engineering services.

Body
R E S O L U T I O N

WHEREAS, it would be beneficial for the safety and welfare of the motoring public if Wadsworth Road at Lewis Avenue, could be improved by widening and reconstruction; and

WHEREAS, it is recommended that a consultant engineering firm be employed to provide Phase I preliminary engineering services for said proposed widening and reconstruction; and

WHEREAS, Lake County, by and through its Division of Transportation, has selected a professional engineering services firm in accordance with the Local Government Professional Services Selection Act (50 ILCS 510/1 et. seq.); and

WHEREAS, Reynolds, Smith and Hills, Inc., St Charles, Illinois, are consulting engineers skilled in the provision of said Phase I preliminary engineering services.

NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by this Lake County Board, that Reynolds, Smith and Hills, Inc., St. Charles, Illinois, be employed to provide said Phase I preliminary engineering services for a maximum cost of $361,957.36, and that the County Board Chair, the County C...