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Joint resolution authorizing a master agreement with the City of Highland Park regarding the energy, maintenance, and future costs of County owned traffic control devices and interconnection with Lake County PASSAGE.
Staff Summary
• Traffic Signal Master Agreement: City of Highland Park.
• With the jurisdictional transfer of Deerfield Road from the City of Highland Park to Lake County, Lake County will have jurisdiction over certain traffic control devices within the City of Highland Park’s corporate boundaries.
• The City of Highland Park and Lake County are desirous of entering into an agreement identifying the terms and conditions for energy, maintenance, and future costs of County owned traffic control devices and interconnection with Lake County PASSAGE.
• The City of Highland Park approved the agreement on September 16, 2015.
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, with the jurisdictional transfer of Deerfield Road from the City of Highland Park to Lake County, Lake County will have jurisdiction over certain traffic control devices within the City of Highland Park’s corporate boundaries; and
WHEREAS, Lake County and the City of Highland Park are desirous of entering into an agreement identifying the terms and conditions for energy, maintenance, and future costs of County 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 City of Highland Park, 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 City of Highland Park stating the terms and conditions for energy, maintenance, and future costs of County 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 City of Highland Park 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 City of Highland Park 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 City of Highland Park and Lake County relative to energy, maintenance, and future costs of County owned traffic control devices and interconnection with Lake County PASSAGE.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on October 13, 2015.