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PROPOSED INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT AMENDMENT
Department: Finance and Administration
Other Part(ies): Cook County Government, Chicago, Illinois
Request: Authorization to amend the intergovernmental agreement between the County of Cook (the “County”) and the Forest Preserve District of Cook County (the “Preserves”) for the reimbursement or payment for certain services rendered by various County departments and the Preserves.
Goods or Services: The County and the Preserves wish to amend the Agreement to increase the amount of reimbursement or payment due from the Preserves to the County.
Agreement Number: N/A
Agreement Period: 1/1/2016, retroactively, to 12/31/2016
Fiscal Impact: $1,941,616.00 in expenditures and $200,500.00 in revenue
Accounts: Various Districtwide corporate accounts
District(s): Districtwide
Summary: In an effort to encourage consolidation and cooperation where appropriate the County and the Preserves entered into an Intergovernmental Agreement on 8/21/2012 authorizing the parties to perform various services for the other in accordance with the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act. The parties agreed to provide various services and to provide reimbursement or payment for said services. The Intergovernmental Agreement was further amended on 4/25/2013, 6/18/2014 and 9/8/2015 to allow for additional cooperation. The Fourth Amended and Restated Intergovernmental Agreement consolidates the prior agreements into one Intergovernmental Agreement, so the parties can refer to one agreement. The Fourth Amended and Restated Intergovernmental Agreement was approved by Cook County’s Board of Commissioners on 10/5/2016.
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