Title
Joint resolution authorizing an intergovernmental agreement with the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) for the receipt of $170,332.95 in funding to provide transportation planning staff assistance for the Lake County Council of Mayors (LCCOM).
Staff Summary
• Planning liaison funds are distributed yearly from the Federal Highway Administration to CMAP through the Illinois Department of Transportation.
• These funds help support transportation planning provided by the Lake County Division of Transportation’s (LCDOT) staff and the LCCOM.
• Among other activities, LCDOT staff will continue to be the communication link between CMAP and the LCCOM; regularly attend all CMAP boards, committees, and other relevant meetings; support the development and implementation of CMAP programs such as the Local Technical Assistance program; and provide technical and administrative support for the LCCOM related to the development, monitoring, and management of its federally funded transportation projects.
• In State Fiscal Year 2020, which begins July 1, 2019, the allocation to LCDOT will be $170,332.95 to cover the workload that CMAP describes in its agreement.
Body
R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, Section 104 of Chapter 1 of Subpart A of Title 23, United States Code, has authorized through the State of Illinois, Metropolitan Planning Funds, hereinafter referred to as “PL” funds, to carry out Section 134 of Chapter One of Subpart A of Title 23, United States Code; and
WHEREAS, the State of Illinois, by and through the Illinois Department of Transportation, makes this funding available to CMAP for carrying out the responsibilities under Section 134 of Title 23, United States Code, through the CMAP Transportation Committee and the region’s designated Metropolitan Planning Organization; and
WHEREAS, CMAP has determined a need for sub-regional transportation planning activities, and has allocated “PL” funds to the LCCOM to be utilized under the direction of the LCCOM to perform said planning activities; and
WHEREAS, the LCCOM and Lake County have determined that it is in their best interest to mutually cooperate in the coordination of transportation planning activities in Lake County; and
WHEREAS, the LCCOM has processed a resolution agreeing to reallocate their “PL” funds to Lake County to retain transportation planning professionals to carry out various transportation planning tasks; and
WHEREAS, Lake County must enter into a grant agreement with CMAP to receive “PL” funds in the amount of $170,332.95, to provide various transportation planning activities; and
WHEREAS, CMAP and Lake County are desirous of entering into a grant agreement, stating the terms and conditions by which Lake County will provide transportation planning activities for the LCCOM.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by this Lake County Board, that the County Board Chair, the County Clerk, and the County Engineer be authorized, and are hereby directed to execute a “PL” grant agreement and any future revisions thereto with CMAP, as required by IDOT. The County Engineer shall transmit, in writing, the final “PL” grant agreement and/or revised “PL” grant agreement to be executed by the County Board Chair and the County Clerk.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that said “PL” contract be administered in accordance with Section 5-205.2 of the Illinois Highway Code without further Lake County Board action.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on August 13, 2019.