TRANSMITTAL LETTER FOR BOARD MEETING OF JUNE 6, 2019
COMMITTEE ON REAL ESTATE
Mr. Brian A. Perkovich, Executive Director
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Authority to issue a 6-month permit to the Prairie Research Institute to access Main Channel Parcels 28.04 and 31.03, in Willow Springs, Illinois, to install traps to collect adult mosquito specimens and to conduct point count surveys of birds. Consideration shall be a nominal fee of $10.00
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Dear Sir:
The Prairie Research Institute (“PRI”) of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has requested a 6-month permit to access Main Channel Parcels 28.04 and 31.03, in Willow Springs, Illinois, to install traps to collect adult mosquito specimens and to conduct point count surveys of birds. The survey is part of a larger research project by PRI to study the interaction of mosquito host availability and West Nile virus occurrence across an urban-rural transect in the Chicago metropolitan region.
Main Channel Parcels 28.04 and 31.03 are currently under lease to the Forest Preserve District of Cook County (“Forest Preserve”). This permit request is therefore subject to the Forest Preserve’s written consent.
The District’s technical departments have reviewed this request and have no objections thereto. A nominal fee of $10.00 is recommended as is customary for governmental entities using District property for a public purpose.
PRI has requested a waiver of the environmental contamination insurance requirement due to the nature of the activities to be performed under the permit. The Board of Commissioners has previously approved similar requests determining that such activities poses little or no risk of environmental contamination to District land. The Engineer of Site Remediation has no objection to a grant of a waiver of the environmental contamination insurance requirement in this instance.
It is requested that the Executive Director recommend to the Board of Commissioners that it authorize and approve the issuance of a 6-month permit to the Prairie Research Institute to access Main Channel Parcels 28.04 and 31.03, in Willow Springs, Illinois, to install traps to collect adult mosquito specimens and to conduct point count surveys of birds. Consideration shall be a nominal fee of $10.00.
It is also requested that the Executive Director recommend to the Board of Commissioners that the Chairman of the Committee on Finance and the Clerk be authorized and directed to execute said permit agreement after it is approved by the General Counsel as to form and legality.
Requested, Susan T. Morakalis, General Counsel, STM:JJZ:mm:vp
Recommended, Brian A. Perkovich, Executive Director
Disposition of this agenda item will be documented in the official Regular Board Meeting Minutes of the Board of Commissioners for June 6, 2019
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