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Joint resolution appropriating a supplemental amount of $80,000 of Matching Tax funds for the Joint Utility Locating Information for Excavators, Inc. (JULIE) ticket screening and locating of Lake County Division of Transportation (LCDOT) storm sewers for excavator dig requests, for various County highways, and designated as Section 15-00000-09-GM.
Staff Summary
• 2015 JULIE Locates Storm Sewer Services: Supplemental Appropriation.
• Pursuant to Illinois law, JULIE serves as a message handling notification service for underground facility owners regarding planned excavations.
• The County’s existing storm sewer locating contract with USIC Locating Services, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana, began on May 15, 2012, and allows for a total of four, one year contract extensions.
• This County Board at its meeting of November 11, 2014, approved $115,000 for the January 1, 2015, thru December 31, 2015, contract period.
• The number of JULIE ticket screening and locate requests will exceed our 2015 estimate due to increased construction activity.
• This resolution is appropriating a supplemental amount of $80,000 for the 2015 contract period.
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R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, Lake County, by and through its Division of Transportation, expects to process over 10,000 storm sewer ticket screening and locate requests from JULIE in 2015 which exceeds our annual estimate; and
WHEREAS, this Lake County Board, at its meeting of May 8, 2012, awarded a contract to USIC Locating Services, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana, for storm sewer ticket screening and locate services required to comply with “The Illinois Underground Utility Facilities Damage Prevention Act” for the time period May 15, 2012, thru December 31, 2012; and
WHEREAS, said contract contains a clause providing for the extension of said contract for four additional one year periods starting January 1 of each year; and
WHEREAS, this County Board, at its meeting of November 11, 2014, approved $115,000 for the January 1, 2015, thru December 31, 2015, contract period; and
WHEREAS, a supplemental appropriation of $80,000 is required to complete the 2015 contract period.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by this Lake County Board, that there is hereby appropriated a supplemental amount of $80,000 of Matching Tax funds for FY 2015 storm sewer ticket screening and locate services required to comply with “The Illinois Underground Utility Facilities Damage Prevention Act”, and designated as Section 15-00000-09-GM.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on September 8, 2015.