Title
Resolution appointing Bonnie Thomson Carter as Lake County’s representative on the Northwest Water Planning Area.
Body
WHEREAS, the Northeastern Illinois Regional Water Supply Planning Group
was created by Governor’s Executive Order in 2006 to study the state’s water
needs and develop regional aquifer and watershed plans; and
WHEREAS, Lake County was a member of the Planning Group; Member
Bonnie Thomson Carter chaired the group as it concluded and released the
Water 2050: Northeastern Illinois Regional Water Supply / Demand Plan, the
purpose of which is to ensure the availability of clean water for the future; and
WHEREAS, in April 2010 the Lake County Board endorsed the Water 2050
Plan, thereby expressing its interest to join with other governments and
stakeholders to implement the Plan; and
WHEREAS, Lake and four other counties, the Lake County Municipal
League, Barrington Area Council of Governments (BACOG), and three other
councils of government (COGs), have voluntarily joined together to form the
Northwest Water Planning Area in order to implement the Water 2050 Plan;
and
WHEREAS, it is the request of your Chairman that Bonnie Thomson Carter
be appointed as Lake County’s representative of the Northwest Water
Planning Area, for a term ending July 1, 2012.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that Bonnie Thomson Carter be appointed to serve as Lake County’s representative on the Northwest Water Planning Area, for a term ending July 12, 2012.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on this 13th day of July, A.D., 2010.
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