Title
Joint resolution authorizing a Technical Services agreement with the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) for federal funding for the Ride Lake County Central program and appropriating $330,000 of ¼% Sales Tax for Transportation funds.
Staff Summary
• RTA: Ride Lake County Central Project is for the Townships of Fremont, Libertyville and Shields, and the Village of Libertyville and Mundelein.
• Section 5310 grants are federal funds administered by the RTA which help fund the Ride Lake County paratransit service in Lake County.
• These funds will be used to provide the Ride Lake County Central paratransit service in the Townships of Fremont, Libertyville and Shields, and the Villages of Libertyville and Mundelein.
• The RTA will reimburse the County 50 percent of the transportation service cost, up to $137,602, with federal Section 5310 grant funds, and the County will provide the 50 percent local share match of $137,602 under the grant agreement.
• Pace will provide the paratransit bus service.
• This agreement has been reviewed by the Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office.
Body
R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, this Lake County Board, by prior resolution at its meeting of November 14, 2006, adopted a resolution in support of the Lake County Coordinated Transportation Services Committee’s (LCCTSC) goal to develop a borderless paratransit system service in Lake County to meet the needs of the mobility challenged constituent population; and
WHEREAS, this Lake County Board, at its meeting of June 14, 2016, authorized the County Board Chair, the County Clerk and the County Engineer to apply for a technical assistance grant from the RTA, in cooperation with LCCTSC, to provide for the Ride Lake County Central Project paratransit program in cooperation with Pace, the Townships of Fremont, Libertyville and Shields, and the Villages of Libertyville and Mundelein; and
WHEREAS, Lake County, by and through its Division of Transportation, on January 10, 2017, was notified by the RTA that it was approved to receive $137,602 of federal Section 5310 grant funds to provide partial funding for said Ride Lake County Central Project; and
WHEREAS, Pace Suburban Bus Division of the RTA will continue to coordinate operations of this expanded paratransit program; and
WHEREAS, the RTA and Lake County are desirous of entering into an agreement stating the terms and conditions by which the RTA will provide said $137,602 grant to Lake County, in support of LCCTSC, for the expansion of said paratransit services, a draft copy attached hereto.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by this Lake County Board, that the County Engineer and the State’s Attorney of Lake County be authorized and they are directed to execute an agreement, and any subsequent amendments, for the receipt of $137,602 of 2015 federal Section 5310 grant funds from the RTA to be used to expand paratransit service in Lake County during the weekdays in the Townships of Fremont, Libertyville and Shields, and the Villages of Libertyville and Mundelein.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the expansion of said paratransit services during the weekday in the Townships of Fremont, Libertyville and Shields, and the Villages of Libertyville and Mundelein will be designated as the Ride Lake County Central Project.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that there is hereby appropriated $330,000 of the ¼% Sales Tax for Transportation funds, for the County’s portion of the said Ride Lake County Central Project, and designated as Section 19-00280-07-ES.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on March 12, 2019.