Lake County Illinois - File #: 16-0430

• File #: 16-0430
• Version: 1
• Name: Wadsworth Road: Village of Beach Park Agreement
• Type: resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 4/27/2016
• In control: Public Works and Transportation Committee
• Final action: 5/10/2016
• Title: Joint resolution authorizing an agreement with the Village of Beach Park to provide routine maintenance for the roadway improvement of Wadsworth Road, west of Sheridan Road, and designated as Section 15-00999-18-RS.

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
5/10/2016	1	Lake County Board	adopted	Pass
5/4/2016	1	Financial & Administrative Committee	recommended for adoption to the consent agenda	Pass
5/4/2016	1	Public Works and Transportation Committee	approved and referred on to the Financial and Administrative Committee	Pass

Title

Joint resolution authorizing an agreement with the Village of Beach Park to provide routine maintenance for the roadway improvement of Wadsworth Road, west of Sheridan Road, and designated as Section 15-00999-18-RS.

Staff Summary

•                     Wadsworth Road: Village of Beach Park Agreement.

•                     Kenosha Road and 21^st Street will be improved by resurfacing, along with landscape enhancements to the existing median on Wadsworth Road, west of Sheridan Road.

•                     The Village of Beach Park will provide routine maintenance of the landscape enhancement of the median on Wadsworth Road, west of Sheridan Road.

Body

R E S O L U T I O N

WHEREAS, Wadsworth Road, County Highway 17, is a designated route on the County highway system; and

WHEREAS, in order to ensure the free flow of traffic and the safety and welfare of the motoring public, Lake County is desirous of improving Wadsworth Road, west of Sheridan Road, by landscape enhancements within the existing median; and

WHEREAS, this improvement is part of a larger project that includes resurfacing portions of 21^st Street, County Highway 67, and Kenosha Road, County Highway 53; and

WHEREAS, Lake County and the Village of Beach Park are desirous of entering into an agreement stating the terms and conditions for the routine maintenance of the landscape median, a draft copy of which is attached hereto; and

WHEREAS, this agreement was approved by the Village of Beach Park at their board meeting of April 14, 2016; and

WHEREAS, this Lake County Board, by prior resolution at its meeting of March 8, 2016, appropriated $1,300,000 of Motor Fuel Tax funds and $1,410,000 of Matching Tax funds for the resurfacing of Kenosha Road, from 21^st Street to Illinois Route 131, the resurfacing of 21^st Street, from Illinois Route 131 to Kenosha Road, and for enhancing the median on Wadsworth Road, west of Sheridan Road.

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, are authorized, and are hereby directed to enter into an agreement between Lake County and the Village of Beach Park stating the terms and conditions for maintenance of the landscape medians along Wadsworth Road, west of Sheridan Road, and such authorization will include any subsequent amendments.

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.

DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on May 10, 2016.