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Joint resolution authorizing emergency procurement contracts with Alfred Benesch & Company, Naperville, Illinois, in the amount of $14,854.52 and Berger Excavating Contractors, Inc., Wauconda, Illinois, in the amount of $825,586.39 for emergency procurement and replacement of the collapsed culvert/bridge under Diamond Lake Road, between Gilmer Road and Illinois Route 60 at Indian Creek, appropriating a supplemental amount of $295,000 of County Bridge Tax funds, and designated as Section 13-00139-06-DR.
Staff Summary
• Diamond Lake Road Culvert/Bridge Emergency Declaration: Supplemental Appropriation and Contract Awards.
• On July 17, 2015, the County Engineer declared an emergency for the collapsed culvert/bridge under Diamond Lake Road, between Gilmer Road and Illinois Route 60 at Indian Creek.
• In accordance with Article 6-103 of the Lake County Purchasing Ordinance, the County Engineer of Lake County certified an emergency procurement for contractual construction services.
• The selected professional engineering firm to provide emergency structural design and geotechnical engineering services is Alfred Benesch & Company, Naperville, Illinois, in the amount of $14,854.52.
• The contractor selected to provide emergency contractual construction services is Berger Excavating Contractors, Inc., Wauconda, Illinois, in the amount of $825,586.39.
• This County Board, at its meeting of November 11, 2014, approved an appropriation of $600,000 of County Bridge Tax funds for the repair of the culvert/bridge under Diamond Lake Road, between Gilmer Road and Illinois Route 60, at Indian Creek.
• Based on the emergency procurement contract amounts, and other emergency procurements, a supplemental appropriation is needed.
• This resolution, per Article 6-103 of the Lake County Purchasing Ordinance, ratifies these emergency procurements and appropriates a supplemental amount of $295,000 of County Bridge Tax funds.
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R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, Diamond Lake Road, County Highway 64, is a designated route on the County highway system; and
WHEREAS, the culvert/bridge under Diamond Lake Road, between Gilmer Road and Illinois Route 60 at Indian Creek, has collapsed causing a safety hazard for the traveling public; and
WHEREAS, on July 17, 2015, in accordance with Article 6-103 of the Lake County Purchasing Ordinance, the County Engineer of Lake County declared that an emergency existed and certified an emergency procurement; and
WHEREAS, Alfred Benesch & Company, Naperville, Illinois, a qualified professional engineering firm, has been hired to provide structural design and geotechnical engineering services to enable the necessary repairs, with an estimated cost of $14,854.52; and
WHEREAS, a contract, in the amount of $825,586.39, has been awarded to Berger Excavating Contractors, Inc., Wauconda, Illinois, a qualified construction firm having the necessary manpower, equipment, materials and expertise to implement the determined repairs to the culvert/bridge under Diamond Lake Road, between Gilmer Road and Illinois Route 60 at Indian Creek; and
WHEREAS, this County Board at its meeting of November 11, 2014, approved an appropriation of $600,000 for the repair of the culvert/bridge under Diamond Lake Road, between Gilmer Road and Illinois Route 60 at Indian Creek; and
WHEREAS, based on the emergency procurement contract amounts and other emergency procurements, a supplemental appropriation is needed.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by this Lake County Board, that the Emergency Procurement authorized by, and effectuated thru, the County Engineer for structural design and geotechnical engineering services with Alfred Benesch & Company, Naperville, Illinois, in the amount of $14,854.52 and for construction services with Berger Excavating Contractors, Inc., Wauconda, Illinois, in the amount of $825,586.39 is ratified, a draft copy of said contracts are attached hereto.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that there is hereby appropriated a supplemental amount of $295,000 of County Bridge Tax funds for the repair of the culvert/bridge under Diamond Lake Road, between Gilmer Road and Illinois Route 60 at Indian Creek.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on June 14, 2016.