Title
Joint resolution providing a supplemental appropriation of $5,000 of Matching Tax funds for the final professional engineering services and emergency contract constructional repairs to the failed retaining wall along Fairfield Road north of IL Route 60 and designated as Section 08-00145-04-GM.
Staff Summary
· Fairfield Road (North of IL Route 60) Failed Retaining Wall: Supplemental Appropriation
· The County Engineer declared an emergency procurement situation existed, and then design and contract construction services were obtained and provided.
· The sum of the professional engineering services and contract construction services to repair said retaining wall equals $124,142.
· This resolution appropriates a supplemental $5,000 of Matching Tax funds for these services to the original appropriation of $120,000.
Body
R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, Fairfield Road (County Highway 49) is a designated route on the county highway system; and
WHEREAS, there was a block retaining wall along the east side of Fairfield Road north of Il Route 60 that was in the process of failing; and
WHEREAS, in order to timely remedy this failing retention wall, professional engineering services and contract construction were acquired in accordance with the emergency procurement provisions (Article 6-103) of Lake County Purchasing Ordinance; and
WHEREAS, this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, at its meeting of November 18, 2008, appropriated $120,000 of Matching Tax funds for professional engineering services and contract construction services and confirmed the emergency awards for said services; and
WHEREAS, the final cost of said professional engineering service and contract construction services exceeds the amount of the original appropriation.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that there is hereby appropriated a supplemental $5,000 of Matching Tax Funds for these professional engineering services and also contract construction services needed to replace the reta...
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