Title
Joint resolution appropriating $2,285,000 of County Bridge Tax funds for the construction of the Buffalo Creek Wetland Mitigation Bank, and designated as Section 01-00000-00-ES.
Staff Summary
• Buffalo Creek Wetland Mitigation Bank: Construction Appropriation.
• It is necessary to mitigate for impacts to wetlands caused by the construction of improvements to designated routes on the County highway system.
• The use of wetland mitigation banks is an environmentally appropriate and cost effective way of handling the mitigation of said wetland impacts.
• The County and the Lake County Forest Preserve District (LCFPD) entered into an agreement effective April 28, 2000, and terminating April 28, 2018, providing for a land exchange and allowing the County to acquire a license from the District for the purpose of creating “wetland banking credits” that could be used for future public roadway improvements.
• The preliminary engineering evaluation and the design engineering for the construction of the wetland mitigation bank is complete.
• This resolution appropriates $2,285,000 of County Bridge Tax funds for the construction of the Buffalo Creek Wetland Mitigation Bank.
Body
R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, the construction of improvements to designated routes on the County highway system sometimes result in minor impacts to adjacent wetlands; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to mitigate for impacts to wetlands caused by the construction of improvements to designated routes on the County highway system; and
WHEREAS, the use of wetland mitigation banks is an environmentally appropriate and cost effective way of handling the mitigation of said minor wetland impacts; and
WHEREAS, the County and the Lake County Forest Preserve District (LCFPD) entered into an agreement effective April 28, 2000, and terminating April 28, 2018, providing for a land exchange and allowing the County to acquire a license from the District for the purpose of creating “wetland banking credits” that could be used for future public roadway improvements; and
WHEREAS, Lake County has completed the preliminary engineering evaluation and the design engineering for the construction of the wetland mitigation bank; and
WHEREAS, an appropriation of funds is required.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY this Lake County Board, that there is hereby appropriated $2,285,000 of County Bridge Tax funds for the construction of the Buffalo Creek Wetland Mitigation Bank, and designated as Section 01-00000-00-ES.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on August 9, 2016.