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Joint resolution authorizing an agreement with Parsons, Chicago, Illinois, for a feasibility study along Lewis Avenue, from Illinois Route 137 to Sunset Avenue, in an amount of $541,785, appropriating $651,000 of ¼% Sales Tax for Transportation funds, and designated as Section 18-00082-10-ES.
Staff Summary
• Lewis Avenue, from 14th Street to Belvidere Street, is nearing the end of its useful life and needs to be reconstructed.
• The County desires to perform a feasibility study along a larger section of Lewis Avenue, from Illinois Route 137 to Sunset Avenue, to ensure the reconstruction project aligns with the future needs of the corridor.
• The feasibility study will examine the characteristics of the traffic along the corridor and determine what improvements will be needed to accommodate future traffic.
• A consultant will be utilized to perform these professional engineering services.
• The Lake County Division of Transportation (LCDOT) received and evaluated Statements of Qualification from seven professional firms of which four were short-listed and presented to a consultant selection committee.
• In accordance with the Local Government Professional Services Selection Act, the recommended firm is Parsons, Chicago, Illinois, in the amount of $541,785.
• This study is included in the highway improvement program and targeted for completion in 2020.
Body
R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, Lewis Avenue, County Highway 27, is a designated route on the County highway system; and
WHEREAS, Lewis Avenue, from 14th Street to Belvidere Street, is nearing the end of its useful life and needs to be reconstructed in the future; and
WHEREAS, the County desires to perform a feasibility study along a larger section of Lewis Avenue, from Illinois Route 137 to Sunset Avenue, to ensure the reconstruction project aligns with the future needs of the corridor; and
WHEREAS, the feasibility study will examine the characteristics of the traffic along the corridor and determine what improvements will be needed to accommodate future traffic; and
WHEREAS, it is advisable that a consultant engineering firm be employed to complete this feasibility study; 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, Parsons, Chicago, Illinois, are professional engineers skilled in the provision of performing this feasibility study; and
WHEREAS, an appropriation of funds is required.
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 are authorized, and they are directed to execute on behalf of Lake County, an agreement, and any amendments, between Lake County and Parsons, Chicago, Illinois, in the amount of $541,785, to perform a feasibility study along Lewis Avenue, from Illinois Route 137 to Sunset Avenue, a draft copy of the agreement is attached hereto.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the County Engineer shall transmit, in writing, the final agreement to be executed by the County Board Chair and the County Clerk.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that there is hereby appropriated $651,000 of ¼% Sales Tax for Transportation funds for these professional engineering services, and designated as Section 18-00082-10-ES.
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 appropriation.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois on January 15, 2019.