Title
Ordinance establishing prevailing wage rates for laborers, workers and mechanics employed by contractors or subcontractors in the performance of public works contracts in Lake County.
Staff Summary
· Pursuant to Illinois Prevailing Wage Act, the Illinois Department of Labor establishes prevailing wage rates for Counties.
· Lake County establishes an Ordinance in compliance with the Illinois Prevailing Wage Act for prevailing wage rates for laborers, workers and mechanics employed by contractors or subcontractors in the performance of public works contracts in Lake County.
Body
ORDINANCE
WHEREAS, the State of Illinois has enacted "An ACT regulating wages of laborers, mechanics and other workers employed in any public works by the State, County, City or any public body or any political subdivision or by anyone under contract for public works", approved June 26, 1941, codified as amended, 820 ILCS 130/1 et seq. (1993) formerly ILL. Rev. Stat., CH. 48, par.39s-1 et seq.; and
WHEREAS, the aforesaid Act requires that Lake County investigate and ascertain the prevailing wage rate of wages as defined in said Act for laborers, mechanics and other workers in the locality of said County employed in performing construction of public works for said County, exclusive of maintenance work; and
WHEREAS, the State of Illinois Department of Labor, Conciliation and Mediation Division has revised the prevailing wage rates for the period June 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, as follows:
SECTION 1: To the extent and as required by "an ACT regulating wages of laborers, mechanics, and other workers employed in any public works by the State County, City or any public body or any political subdivision or by anyone under contract for public works" , approved June 26, 1941, as amended the general prevailing rate of wages in the locality for laborers, mechanics and other workers engaged in construction work in the Lake County area as revised by the Department of Labor of the State of Illinois for the period June 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016, a copy of that determination being attached and incorporated herein by reference. The definition of terms appearing in the Ordinance which are also in the aforesaid ACT shall be the same in said ACT.
SECTION 2: Nothing herein contained shall be construed to apply said general prevailing rate of wages as herein ascertained to any work or employment except public works construction of the County of the extent required by the aforesaid ACT.
SECTION 3: The County Clerk shall publicly post or keep available for inspection by any interested party in the main office of the County, this determination of such prevailing rate of wage.
SECTION 4: The County Clerk shall mail a copy of the determination to any employer, and to any association of employers, and to any person or association of employees who have filed, or file their names and addresses requesting copies of any determination stating the particular rates and the particular class of workers whose wages will be affected by such rates.
SECTION 5: The County Clerk shall promptly file a certified copy of this Ordinance with both the Secretary of State and the Department of Labor of the State of Illinois.
SECTION 6: The County Clerk shall cause to be published in a newspaper of general circulation within the area, a copy of this Ordinance, and such publication shall constitute notice that the determination is effective and that this is the determination of this public body.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on June 9, 2015.