TRANSMITTAL LETTER FOR BOARD MEETING OF NOVEMBER 21, 2019
COMMITTEE ON REAL ESTATE
Mr. Brian A. Perkovich, Executive Director
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Authority to grant a 2-year, 0.014+ acre non-exclusive easement to the City of Chicago, Department of Transportation to use the District’s Webster Avenue Instream Aeration Station grounds located at the North Branch of the Chicago River and Webster Avenue in Chicago, Illinois as a staging area during its Webster Avenue Bridge Improvement Project. Consideration shall be a nominal fee of $10.00
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Dear Sir:
The City of Chicago, Department of Transportation (“CDOT”) is requesting a 2-year, 0.014+ acre non-exclusive easement to use the District’s Webster Avenue Instream Aeration Station grounds located at the North Branch of the Chicago River and Webster Avenue in Chicago, Illinois as a staging area during its Webster Avenue Bridge Improvement Project.
The bridge improvement project consists of removing and replacing structurally deficient and obsolete Webster Avenue Bridge elements, repairing the retaining walls adjacent to the bridge and making sidewalk improvements along Webster and Ashland Avenues. CDOT will stage its equipment and trucks on the bridge, with limited storage of supplies such as rebar for the concrete walls and wooden formwork materials on its easement premises.
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.
It is requested that the Executive Director recommend to the Board of Commissioners that it authorize the grant of a 2-year, 0.014+ acre non-exclusive easement to the City of Chicago, Department of Transportation to use the District’s Webster Avenue Instream Aeration Station grounds located at the North Branch of the Chicago River and Webster Avenue in Chicago, Illinois as a staging area during its Webster Avenue Bridge Improvement Project. 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 easement agreement after it is approved by the General Counsel as to form and legality.
Requested, Susan T. Morakalis, General Counsel, STM:JJZ:npe
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 November 21, 2019
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