Title
Joint resolution authorizing the execution of a master agreement with the Village of Deerfield regarding the energy, maintenance, and future costs of County and Village owned traffic control devices and interconnection with Lake County PASSAGE.
Staff Summary
· Traffic Signal Master Agreement, Lake County PASSAGE: Village of Deerfield.
· The Village of Deerfield and Lake County operate and have jurisdiction over certain traffic control devices within the Village corporate boundaries.
· The Village of Deerfield and Lake County are desirous of entering an agreement stating the terms and conditions for energy, maintenance, and future costs of Village and County owned traffic control devices and interconnection with Lake County PASSAGE.
Body
R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, Lake County, by and through its Division of Transportation, maintains and operates, through Lake County PASSAGE, traffic control devices on the County highway system; and
WHEREAS, the Village of Deerfield operates and has jurisdiction over certain traffic control devices on the local roadway system within its corporate boundaries; and
WHEREAS, Lake County and the Village of Deerfield are desirous of entering into an agreement stating the terms and conditions for energy, maintenance, and future costs of County and Village owned traffic control devices; and
WHEREAS, it is in the best interest of Lake County to authorize the County Engineer of Lake County to amend Exhibit A of the master agreement, as may be warranted from time-to-time, adding, deleting or modifying intersections with traffic control devices that are within the corporate boundaries of the Village of Deerfield, in accordance with said master agreement.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by this Lake County Board, that the County Board Chair, the County Clerk, and the County Engineer of Lake County, Illinois, be authorized, and they are hereby directed to execute a master agreement, and any subsequent amendments thereto, with the Village of Deerfield stating the terms and conditions for energy, maintenance, and future costs of County and Village owned traffic control devices, and a draft copy of said agreement is attached hereto.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the County Engineer shall transmit, in writing, the final agreement, and any amendments, to be executed by the County Board Chair and the County Clerk.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the County Engineer of Lake County is hereby authorized to amend Exhibit A, within the above-said master agreement between Lake County and the Village of Deerfield adding, deleting or modifying intersections with traffic control devices, as may be warranted from time-to-time, and that are within the corporate boundaries of the Village of Deerfield in accordance with said master agreement.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the above-said master agreement takes the place of and supersedes all prior agreements between the Village of Deerfield and Lake County relative to energy, maintenance, and future costs of Village owned traffic control devices and interconnection with Lake County PASSAGE.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on June 9, 2015.