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Approving an Intergovernmental Agreement with the Dundee Township Road District for the Pokagon Creek Stream Stabilization Project
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WHEREAS, the Congress of the United States has enacted the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (“ARPA”) to provide economic relief to State, Local, and Tribal governments responding to the economic and public health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic; and
WHEREAS, the County of Kane received a total of $103,413,041 (One Hundred Three Million, Four Hundred Thousand, Forty-One Dollars) in State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (“SLFRF”) from the United States Department of the Treasury pursuant to ARPA; and
WHEREAS, in Resolution 23-231, the Kane County Board authorized the use of $705,000 (Seven Hundred Five Thousand Dollars) of SLFRF to fund the “Drainage Cost Share Consultant and Capital Project” for the Kane County Environmental & Water Resources Department, for the purpose of making necessary investments in water, sewer, and broadband infrastructure; and
WHEREAS, through the Kane County Cost-Share Drainage program, the Kane County Environmental & Water Resources Department assists residents in unincorporated areas of Kane County with improvements to aid in solving stormwater and subsurface drainage problems; and
WHEREAS, as a part of allocation approved in Resolution 23-231, the Kane County Environmental & Water Resources Department desires to expend $100,000 (One Hundred Thousand Dollars) to fund the Pokagon Creek Stream Stabilization project (“Project”); and
WHEREAS, the Project will involve 280 (Two Hundred and Eighty) feet of stream channel/stream bank stabilization using bioengineering practices and natural stone as required, soil erosion and sediment control, landscaping pavement repair and replacement as well as engineering assessment of all 2,600 (Two Thousand Six Hundred) LF of Pokagon Creek in the Dundee Township Road District right-of-way in order to provide preliminary planning for future stabilization projects in the adjoining stream reached; and
WHEREAS, to carry out the Project, it is necessary for the County of Kane to enter into an intergovernmental agreement with the Dundee Township Road District, whereby the Dundee Township Road District will implement and execute the Project and the County of Kane will provide funding and technical assistance; and
WHEREAS, a draft of the intergovernmental agreement with the Dundee Township Road District is attached hereto.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Kane County Board hereby approves of the attached intergovernmental agreement with the Dundee Township Road District, and that the Kane County Board Chairman is hereby authorized to execute the attached intergovernmental agreement on behalf of the County of Kane, subject to the final review and advisement of the Kane County State’s Attorney’s Office.
Passed by the Kane County Board on December 10, 2024.
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John A. Cunningham, MBA, JD, JD Corinne M. Pierog MA, MBA
Clerk, County Board Chairman, County Board
Kane County, Illinois Kane County, Illinois
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