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PUBLIC WORKS MEMORANDUM <br /> NO.2019-19 <br /> DATF,: March 21,2019 <br /> TO: Hanorable Mayor,Tulie Moore Wolfe and City Council Members <br /> FROM: Scat Wrighton, City Manager <br /> Matthew C. Newell,P.E,,Public Works Director <br /> SUBJECT: Resolution to Appropriate Matar Fuel Tax Funds for Restoration of Streets <br /> and Highways by Municipaiity Under the Iilinais Highway Code <br /> City Project 2019-08 <br /> SUMMARY RECOMMENDATItJN: <br /> It is recommended that the City Council approve the attached Resalution authorizing the Mayor to <br /> sign and the City Clerk to attest to appropriating$400,000 in State Motor Fuel Tax(MFT)funds <br /> for the proposed 20i9 Street Restoration project, City Project 20I9-08. <br /> PRIUR CUUNCIL ACTION: <br /> Each year the City Council appraves the appropriation of State MFT funds for street impravement <br /> work. State MFT funds are allocated for street improvement work as part of the Fiscal Year 2019 <br /> Capital Impravement Plan. <br /> BACKGROUND. <br /> State Motar Fue1 Taxes are Ievied and collected by the State of Illinois; funds are allocated to lacal <br /> agencies and are administered by the Illinois Department of Transportation(IDOT). The City is <br /> required to adapt a resolution specifying the allocation of State MPT funds to their intended <br /> projects. IDOT must receive an MFT appropriation before they will approve the expenditure of <br /> State MFT money. <br /> The 2019 State MFT project will be smaller than past years due to funds being applied to bridge <br /> work and passible use for the Brush College/Faries Parkway Grade Separation project. <br /> Proposed 2019 Street Impravement <br /> The resoiutian appropriates $44a,040 in State MFT funds for asphalt street work far the propased <br /> 2019 Street Restoration project, City Project 2019-08. The Street Restoration project is part of the <br /> annual maintenance program that general]y consists of milling off a portian of an existing asphalt <br /> street surface and placing a new asphalt cancrete surface course that restares the integrity of the <br /> street surface. The 20I9 project will perform mial and overlay work on South Shares Drive <br /> between 81h Drive and the South Shares Bridge over Lake Decatur. In addition,there will be some <br /> asphalt patehing and crack sealing an various streets in the City. <br /> ^� 1 � <br />