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APPROVING AN INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT FOR TRANSPORTATION PLANNING ACTIVITIES
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WHEREAS, the Council of Mayors Program of the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) was established to provide a forum for early public involvement and partnerships in regional transportation planning efforts, to provide federal programming assistance to local agencies, and to assist with project development at the local and regional level in northeastern Illinois; and
WHEREAS, CMAP's Kane - Kendall Council of Mayors is comprised of elected local officials as provided for and defined in the Federal Highway Acts of 1970, 1973, and 1976, the Surface Transportation Assistance Acts of 1978, 1982, 1987, the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991, the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century, the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act, and the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act which Council of Mayors represent thirty-seven (37) municipalities in Kane and Kendall Counties; and
WHEREAS, the Kane - Kendall Council of Mayors receives federal transportation funds through CMAP which the Council utilizes to retain professional staff assistance from the County of Kane in order to provide effective planning liaison to various regional planning and transportation agencies, to supply professional technical assistance to units of local government in order to develop and administer an annual Surface Transportation Program of over Eight Million Dollars ($8,000,000) and to perform planning and programming activities for the region; and
WHEREAS, the Kane - Kendall Council of Mayors desires to continue to receive professional staff assistance from the County of Kane and requests that the County of Kane by and through the Kane County Division of Transportation continue to employ transportation planning professionals to provide said assistance; and
WHEREAS, it is ...
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