Meeting Name: Real Estate Committee Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 5/9/2017 10:45 AM Minutes status: Final  
Meeting location: Cook County Building, Board Room, 118 North Clark Street, Chicago, Illinois
Published agenda: Agenda Agenda Published minutes: Minutes Minutes  
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Attachments: Proposed Substitute 16-0177 - MWRD Arrowhead Lake.pdf, Proposed Substitute 17-0134 - MWRD - Lyons Levee.pdf
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17-0201 1 minutes from the meeting of 10/25/2016Committee MinutesCOMMITTEE MINUTES Approval of the minutes from the meeting of 10/25/2016approvePass Action details Video Video
16-0177 1 Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (“MWRD”) and the City of Palos Heights (“the City”)Intergovernmental AgreementSUBSTITUTE TO ITEM 16-0177 PROPOSED INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT Department: Planning & Development Other Part(ies): Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (“MWRD”) and the City of Palos Heights (“the City”) Request: Authorize the Forest Preserves of Cook County (the “Preserves”) to enter into an Intergovernmental Agreement (“IGA”) with MWRD and the City to construct, operate and maintain modifications to the existing Arrowhead Lake, dam embankment, and paved bike trail. Goods or Services: MWRD will construct the modifications at its sole cost and expense and maintain the vegetative improvements for at least two growing seasons. The City, at its sole cost and expense, shall maintain and operate the flood control improvements built as part of the project. The Preserves will maintain the vegetative improvements and path improvements. As required by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (“IDNR”), the Preserves shall provide a right of access or easement to IDNR. Agreement Number(s): N/A Agreement Period: The agreement becomes effeaccept a substitutePass Action details Video Video
16-0177 1 Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (“MWRD”) and the City of Palos Heights (“the City”)Intergovernmental AgreementSUBSTITUTE TO ITEM 16-0177 PROPOSED INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT Department: Planning & Development Other Part(ies): Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (“MWRD”) and the City of Palos Heights (“the City”) Request: Authorize the Forest Preserves of Cook County (the “Preserves”) to enter into an Intergovernmental Agreement (“IGA”) with MWRD and the City to construct, operate and maintain modifications to the existing Arrowhead Lake, dam embankment, and paved bike trail. Goods or Services: MWRD will construct the modifications at its sole cost and expense and maintain the vegetative improvements for at least two growing seasons. The City, at its sole cost and expense, shall maintain and operate the flood control improvements built as part of the project. The Preserves will maintain the vegetative improvements and path improvements. As required by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (“IDNR”), the Preserves shall provide a right of access or easement to IDNR. Agreement Number(s): N/A Agreement Period: The agreement becomes effeapprove as substitutedPass Action details Not available
17-0125 1 Wide Open West d/b/a WOW!License RequestPROPOSED LICENSE REQUEST Request: Requesting authorization for the Forest Preserve District of Cook County (“the Preserves”), as Licensor to grant a License to Wide Open West d/b/a WOW!, Grantee, to locate, operate and maintain four thousand three hundred (4,300) linear feet of aerial fiber optic line on an existing ComEd utility pole line approximately three hundred and fifty (350) feet north of Lawrence Avenue from Des Plaines River Road to East River Road in the Catherine Chevalier Woods Forest Preserve. The proposed fiber optic line will connect Verizon Wireless cellular towers for public telecommunication purposes. The existing ComEd utility pole line was granted by License 713 in 1967 and last renewed in 2017 for a ten (10) year term. Term: Ten (10) years, 4/11/2017 - 4/10/2027 License Fee: $106,611.57 License Application Fee: $1,000.00 YELAR Fee: $3,600.00 Total: $111,211.57 for the term of the License (Sec. 5-2A-4 and 5-2B-4) Tree Mitigation Fee: N/A The area of the License is: 64,500 square feet, or 1.48 acres Concurrence(s): The Chief FinapprovePass Action details Not available
17-0126 1  License RequestPROPOSED LICENSE REQUEST Request: Requesting authorization for the Forest Preserve District of Cook County (“the Preserves”), as Licensor to grant a License to the Village of Riverside, Grantee, to locate, operate and maintain thirty seven (37) linear feet of 24-inch storm sewer and outfall structure to the Des Plaines River in the Salt Creek Preserves, between First Avenue and the Des Plaines River at the BNSF Railroad, between Ogden and 31st Street. The proposed sewer is part of a project to improve water quality in the Des Plaines River watershed by separating stormwater runoff from the existing combined sewer, which will relieve flooding and reduce combined sewer overflow discharge into the Forest Preserve and the river. Term: Continuous License Fee: $4,100.00 License Application Fee: $5,500.00 YELAR Fee: $6,150.00 Total: $15,750.00 for the term of the License (Sec. 5-2A-4 and 5-2B-4) Tree Mitigation Fee: $285.53 The area of the License is: 900 square feet or 0.02 acres Concurrence(s): The Chief Financial Officer and Chief Attorney have approveapprovePass Action details Not available
17-0134 1 Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (“MWRD”)Intergovernmental AgreementSUBSTITUTE TO ITEM 17-0134 PROPOSED INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT Department: Planning & Development Other Part(ies): Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (“MWRD”) Request: Authorization to enter into an Intergovernmental Agreement (“IGA”) with MWRD for the reconstruction and maintenance of the Lyons Levee Goods or Services: Grant of permanent and temporary easements and waiver of tree mitigation fees to allow MWRD to improve, raise, and maintain the Lyons Levee from Joliet Road downstream in Ottawa Trail Woods to south of 47th Street along the west edge of the Chicago Portage National Historic Site Agreement Number(s): N/A Agreement Period: Continuous Fiscal Impact: None Accounts: N/A District(s): 16 Summary: MWRD, under an agreement with the United States Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) for the design and construction, proposes to repair, rehabilitate, and replace the Lyons Levee to protect against a 100-year flood event. In April 2013, floodwater from the Des Plaines River overtopped the Lyons Levee and flooded a paccept a substitutePass Action details Not available
17-0134 1 Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (“MWRD”)Intergovernmental AgreementSUBSTITUTE TO ITEM 17-0134 PROPOSED INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT Department: Planning & Development Other Part(ies): Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (“MWRD”) Request: Authorization to enter into an Intergovernmental Agreement (“IGA”) with MWRD for the reconstruction and maintenance of the Lyons Levee Goods or Services: Grant of permanent and temporary easements and waiver of tree mitigation fees to allow MWRD to improve, raise, and maintain the Lyons Levee from Joliet Road downstream in Ottawa Trail Woods to south of 47th Street along the west edge of the Chicago Portage National Historic Site Agreement Number(s): N/A Agreement Period: Continuous Fiscal Impact: None Accounts: N/A District(s): 16 Summary: MWRD, under an agreement with the United States Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) for the design and construction, proposes to repair, rehabilitate, and replace the Lyons Levee to protect against a 100-year flood event. In April 2013, floodwater from the Des Plaines River overtopped the Lyons Levee and flooded a papprove as substitutedPass Action details Not available