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Joint resolution authorizing a technical services agreement with the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) providing the terms and conditions for the receipt of federal “Section 5310” funds, appropriating $350,000 of ¼% Sales Tax for Transportation funds, and designated as Section 16-00280-04-ES.
Staff Summary
• RTA: “Ride Lake County” Central Lake Partners Coordinated Transportation Service for the Townships of Fremont, Libertyville and Shields, and the Villages of Libertyville and Mundelein.
• The Lake County Board, at its meeting on June 10, 2014, authorized the County to apply for a Section 5310 grant from the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) on behalf of the Lake County Coordinated Transportation Services Committee (LCCTSC), to provide the “Ride Lake County” Central Lake Partners Coordination Transportation Service paratransit program.
• These funds will be used to expand paratransit service in Lake County to meet the needs of the mobility challenged constituent population in the Townships of Fremont, Libertyville and Shields, and the Villages of Libertyville and Mundelein; this program is to be known as the “Ride Lake County” Central Lake Partners Coordinated Transportation Service.
• The RTA will reimburse the County 50 percent, or $163,975, of the federal “Section 5310” grant funds and the County will provide the 50 percent local share match.
• Pace will provide the paratransit bus service.
• This resolution authorizes the execution of an agreement for these grant funds and appropriates $350,000 of the ¼% Sales Tax for Transportation funds for this project.
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R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, this Lake County Board, by prior resolution at its meeting of November 14, 2006, adopted a resolution in support of the Lake County Coordinated Transportation Services Committee (LCCTSC) goal to develop a borderless paratransit system service in Lake County to meet the needs of the mobility challenged constituent population; and
WHEREAS, this Lake County Board, at its meeting of June 10, 2014, authorized the County Board Chair, the County Clerk and the County Engineer to apply for a 2014 technical assistance grant from the RTA, in cooperation with LCCTSC, to provide for the “Ride Lake County” Central Lake Partners Coordinated Transportation Service paratransit program in cooperation with Pace, the Townships of Fremont, Libertyville and Shields, and the Villages of Libertyville and Mundelein; and
WHEREAS, Lake County, by and through its Division of Transportation, on December 15, 2014, was notified by the RTA that it was approved to receive $163,975 of federal “Section 5310” grant funds to provide partial funding for said “Ride Lake County” Central Lake Partners Coordinated Transportation Service; and
WHEREAS, Pace Suburban Bus Division of the RTA will coordinate operations of this expanded paratransit program; and
WHEREAS, the RTA and Lake County are desirous of entering into an agreement stating the terms and conditions by which the RTA will provide said $163,975 grant to Lake County, in support of LCCTSC, for the expansion of said paratransit services, a draft copy attached hereto.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by this Lake County Board, that the County Engineer and the State’s Attorney of Lake County be authorized and they are directed to execute an agreement, and any subsequent amendments, for the receipt of $163,975 of 2014 federal “Section 5310” grant funds, over four years, from the RTA to be used to expand paratransit service in Lake County during the weekdays in the Townships of Fremont, Libertyville and Shields, and the Villages of Libertyville and Mundelein.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the expansion of said paratransit services during the weekday in the Townships of Fremont, Libertyville and Shields, and the Villages of Libertyville and Mundelein will be designated as the “Ride Lake County” Central Lake Partners Coordinated Transportation Service.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that there is hereby appropriated $350,000 of the ¼% Sales Tax for Transportation funds for the County’s portion of the said “Ride Lake County” Central Lake Partners Coordinated Transportation Service.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on February 9, 2016.