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Develo ment Services <br /> A <br /> DATE: 11/9/2015 <br /> MEMO: No. 15-47 <br /> TO: Honorable Mayor Julie Moore Wolfe and City Council <br /> FROM: Tim Gleason, City Manager <br /> Billy Tyus, Assistant City Manager for Development Services <br /> SUBJECT: Amendment to the Agreement with the State of Illinois for the Illinois <br /> Transportation Enhancement Program Corridors Project, Project TE-OOD7 <br /> (40), Job P-97-011-11 <br /> SUMIVIARY RECOMP�NDATION: It is recommended that the City Council authorize an <br /> Amendment to the Agreement with the State of Illinois for the ITEP enhancement grant to <br /> e�end the date of the obligation to February 2017. <br /> BACKGROUND: <br /> The State of Illinois announced that the City would be receiving a grant of up to $1 million in <br /> early 2010 as part of the Illinois Transportation Enhancement grant program to address the <br /> condition of local corridors. The grant provides an 80% reimbursement for certain costs <br /> intended to be used to improve the appearance of two of the City's primary entryways —U.S. <br /> 51 and U.S. Route 36/Eldorado Street— specifically through the addition of monuments, <br /> signage and landmarks. Originally, it had been our understanding based on discussions with <br /> some IDOT staff and railroad companies serving the area that work to improve overhead <br /> railroad structures would be performed and allowed as part of the grant. We have since <br /> learned through extended discussions with the railroads that this work will not be feasible due <br /> in part to newly discovered railroad restrictions. The Illinois Department of Transportation <br /> has been continuously willing to work with the city since that time in helping to adjust the <br /> scope of the project after detertninations were made that the original concept for the project <br /> could no longer be realized. <br /> The obligation limits of Local Agency Agreements such as the agreement governing this grant <br /> are for a period of five years from the date of execution. Upon further review and the change <br /> in the scope of the project, IDOT has requested that the City authorize changing the expiration <br /> date to February 28, 2017. <br /> POTENTIAL OBJECTIONS: There are no known objections to this resolution. <br /> Page 155 of 244 '� <br />