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Joint resolution authorizing an agreement for professional engineering services with Stanley Consultants, Chicago, Illinois, for Phase II design engineering services for the intersection improvement of Hunt Club Road, at Illinois Route 132, at a maximum cost of $705,931.53, appropriating $850,000 of ¼% Sales Tax for Transportation funds for these engineering services, and designated as Section 14-00095-17-CH.
Staff Summary
• Hunt Club Road, at Illinois Route 132: Phase II Consultant Agreement and Appropriation.
• Hunt Club Road, at Illinois Route 132, will be improved with channelization and pedestrian accommodations.
• This improvement is included in the Highway Improvement Program.
• An engineering consultant firm will be used for the Phase II design engineering for this improvement.
• In accordance with the Local Government Professional Services Selection Act, the recommended firm is Stanley Consultants, Chicago, Illinois.
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R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, Hunt Club Road, County Highway 29, is a designated route on the County highway system; and
WHEREAS, it would be beneficial to the safety and welfare of the motoring public if Hunt Club Road, at Illinois Route 132, could be improved by channelization and pedestrian accommodations; and
WHEREAS, it is recommended that a consulting engineering firm be employed to provide Phase II design engineering services; and
WHEREAS, Lake County, by and through its Division of Transportation, has selected a professional engineering services firm in accordance with the Local Government Professional Services Selection Act (50 ILCS 510/1 et. seq.); and
WHEREAS, Stanley Consultants, Chicago, Illinois, are consulting engineers skilled in the provision of said Phase II design engineering services.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by this Lake County Board, that Stanley Consultants, Chicago, Illinois, be employed to provide said Phase II design engineering services at a maximum cost of $705,931.53, and that the County Board Chair, the County Clerk, and the County Engineer of Lake County are authorized and they are directed to execute, on behalf of Lake County, an agreement for consultant engineering services between Lake County and Stanley Consultants, Chicago, Illinois, for the intersection improvement of Hunt Club Road, at Illinois Route 132, a draft copy of which is attached hereto, and such authorization shall include any necessary 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.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that there is hereby appropriated $850,000 of ¼% Sales Tax for Transportation funds for these engineering services, and designated as Section 14-00095-17-CH.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this agreement be administered in accordance with Chapter 605, Act 5, Section 5-205.2 of the Illinois Compiled Statutes without further Board action providing the final contract cost chargeable under the funds appropriated does not exceed the appropriations provided.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on October 10, 2017.