TRANSMITTAL LETTER FOR BOARD MEETING OF OCTOBER 16, 2014
COMMITTEE ON REAL ESTATE
Mr. David St. Pierre, Executive Director
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Authority to issue a 1-year permit extension to CH2M Hill Engineers, Inc. to continue to access District real estate along the Des Plaines River, Sanitary & Ship Canal, and Illinois & Michigan Canal, from approximately 1/2 mile west of Lemont Road in Lemont to Cicero Avenue in Stickney, to close previously installed monitoring wells. Consideration shall be a nominal fee of $10.00
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Dear Sir:
At its December 15, 2011 meeting, the District's Board of Commissioners ("Board") authorized the issuance of a purchase order to CH2M Hill Engineers, Inc. ("CH2M Hill") for professional engineering design services under Contract 10-716-3P, "Lemont Pumping Station, Force Mains, Reservoir, and Wet Weather Treatment Facility" ("Contract"). Thereafter, at its October 4, 2012 meeting, the Board authorized the issuance of a 2-year permit to CH2M Hill to access District real estate located along the Des Plaines River, Sanitary & Ship Canal, and Illinois & Michigan Canal, from approximately 1/2 mile west of Lemont Road in Lemont to Cicero Avenue in Stickney to conduct soil borings, install monitoring wells, perform surveying and other site-related activities under the Contract. The subject permit is set to expire on October 17, 2014.
The Engineering Department has recommended a 1-year extension of the permit to allow CH2M Hill to continue to access the subject District real estate in order to close out its previously installed monitoring wells, a/k/a piezometers, that were used to monitor groundwater elevations, and to bring any of its other surveying and site-related activities to a close. A nominal fee of $10.00 is being recommended since CH2M Hill is a District contractor.
Accordingly, it is requested that the Executive Director recommend to the Board of Commissioners that it authorize and approve the issuance of a 1-year permit extension to CH2M Hill Engineers, Inc. to continue to access District real estate along the Des Plaines River, Sanitary & Ship Canal, and Illinois & Michigan Canal, from approximately 1/2 mile west of Lemont Road in Lemont to Cicero Avenue in Stickney, to close previously installed monitoring wells. Consideration shall be a nominal fee of $10.00.
It is also requested that the Executive Director recommend to the Board of Commissioners that it authorize and direct the Chairman of the Committee on Finance and the Clerk to execute said Permit extension on behalf of the District after it is approved by the General Counsel as to form and legality.
Requested, Ronald M. Hill, General Counsel, RMH:STM:MM:vp
Recommended, David St. Pierre, Executive Director
Respectfully Submitted, Mariyana T. Spyropoulos, Chairman Committee on Real Estate Development
Disposition of this agenda item will be documented in the official Regular Board Meeting Minutes of the Board of Commissioners for October 16, 2014
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