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Meeting Name: Committee of the Whole Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 4/3/2014 10:05 AM Minutes status: Final  
Meeting location: Board Room
Published agenda: Not available Published minutes: Minutes Minutes  
Agenda packet: Not available
Meeting video: eComment: Not available  
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14-0303 11ReportReport on the evaluation process for 14-RFP-07 Financial Advisory Services Related to the District Financing ProgramRecommendedPass Action details Video Video
14-0272 12ReportReport on advertisement of Request for Proposal 14-RFP-21 Master Agreement for Professional Development Courses for a Three-Year Period, Account 101-25000-601170RecommendedPass Action details Not available
14-0290 13ReportReport of bid opening of Tuesday, March 18, 2014RecommendedPass Action details Not available
14-0299 14ReportReport on advertisement of Request for Proposal 14-RFP-22 Remote Storage of District Records for a Thirty-Six (36) Month Period, estimated cost $156,000.00, Account 101-15000-612490, Requisition 1376365RecommendedPass Action details Not available
14-0271 15Agenda ItemAuthorization to enter into an agreement for Contract 13-RFP-24 Combined PPO/HMO Plan Administrator, with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois, a division of Health Care Service Corporation, for a three-year period, effective July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2017, Account 101-25000-601250RecommendedPass Action details Not available
14-0302 16Agenda ItemAuthorization to enter into an agreement and make payment to the Water Environment Research Federation (WERF) for the cost of participation in a research project to develop advanced design and validation protocols for UV disinfection, in an amount not to exceed $75,000.00, Account 201-50000-601170RecommendedPass Action details Not available
14-0273 17Agenda ItemAuthority to advertise Contract 14-363-11 for public tender of bids for a 10-year lease on 6.04 acres of District real estate located at 3219 Oakton Street in Skokie, Illinois; North Shore Channel Parcels 6.06 and 6.11. The minimum initial rental bid shall be established at $170,000.00RecommendedPass Action details Not available
14-0279 18Agenda ItemAuthority to advertise Contract 14-103-11 Furnish and Deliver an Aluminum Monitoring and Research Boat, estimated cost $250,000.00, Account 201-50000-634790, Requisition 1374200RecommendedPass Action details Video Video
14-0282 19Agenda ItemAuthority to advertise Contract 14-406-11 Main Office Building Chiller Overhaul, estimated cost $50,000.00, Account 101-15000-612680, Requisition 1376717RecommendedPass Action details Not available
14-0276 110Agenda ItemIssue purchase order to CDW Government LLC., to Furnish and Deliver FireEye Web Security Appliance and Maintenance, in an amount not to exceed $119,816.48, Accounts 101-27000-634840, 612840, Requisition 1376979RecommendedPass Action details Not available
14-0280 111Agenda ItemIssue purchase order and enter into an agreement with Agilent Technologies, Inc., to Furnish, Deliver and Install a Gas Chromatograph, Mass Spectrometer, Automatic Liquid Sampler and Extractor Ion Source Assembly, in an amount not to exceed $62,321.00, Account 101-16000-634970, Requisition 1375752RecommendedPass Action details Not available
14-0281 112Agenda ItemIssue purchase order and enter into an agreement with YSI Incorporated, for Pay-Per-Use Preventive Maintenance for YSI Water Quality Instruments, in an amount not to exceed $36,000.00, Account 101-16000-612970, Requisition 1367995RecommendedPass Action details Not available
14-0284 113Agenda ItemIssue purchase order to Wright Automotive, Inc., to Furnish and Deliver two Ford F150 pickup trucks under the State of Illinois Joint Purchasing Contract No. 4017624, in an amount not to exceed $42,416.00, Account 201-50000-634860, Requisition 1376982RecommendedPass Action details Not available
14-0287 114Agenda ItemIssue purchase order and enter into an agreement with A.C. Advisory, Inc. for contract 14-RFP-07, Financial Advisory Services Related to the District Financing Program for a three-year period, in an amount not to exceed $160,000.00, Account 101-11000-601170, Requisition 1369669Deferred  Action details Video Video
14-0306 115Agenda ItemAuthority to increase purchase order and amend agreement with Ricoh USA for services to provide maintenance, service, repairs and supplies for 15 Ricoh copiers in an amount of $9,863.76 from an amount of $18,694.91 to an amount not to exceed $28,558.67, Account 101-27000-612810, Purchase Order 8007248RecommendedPass Action details Video Video
14-0307 116Agenda ItemAuthority to increase purchase order for Contract 06-418-11, Furnish and Deliver Thirty-Two (32) Multi-Functional Photocopier Devices and a Five Year Repair Service, Supplies and Maintenance Agreement at Various Locations, to Ricoh Americas Corporation, in an amount of $12,180.00 from an amount of $424,931.87, to an amount not to exceed $437,111.87. Account 101-27000-612810 Purchase Order 3041665RecommendedPass Action details Video Video
14-0269 117Agenda ItemAuthority to transfer 2014 departmental appropriations in the amount of $3,605,000.00 in the Construction Fund and Capital Improvements Bond FundRecommendedPass Action details Not available
14-0268 118Agenda ItemAuthorization to enter into a Mutual Release and Rescission of Sewer Service Agreement By and Between the Village of Sauk Village (“Village”) and the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago n/k/a Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (Deferred from the March 20, 2014, Board Meeting)RecommendedPass Action details Not available
14-0297 119Agenda ItemAuthority to allow Hanson Material Services to accept the bid for sale of the off-road haul truck, in the amount of $75,500.00, Contract 77-235-2F, Thornton Composite Reservoir, Calumet Service Area, Account 401-50000-645620RecommendedPass Action details Video Video
14-0298 120Agenda ItemAuthority to enter into an agreement with the Illinois Department of Transportation and to make payment to the Illinois Department of Transportation in an amount not to exceed $100,050.00. Account 101-50000-612620RecommendedPass Action details Video Video
14-0308 121Agenda ItemAuthority to assign the interests of Hummel Plastering, Inc., to Chris Hummel in the lease issued to Hummel Plastering, Inc., and John Gorsuch to farm District land located in Fulton County, Illinois (Deferred from the March 20, 2014 Board Meeting)RecommendedPass Action details Video Video
14-0262 122Agenda ItemAuthority to issue a 1-day permit to Friends of the Chicago River to access District land at 15 locations along the North Branch of the Chicago River, North Shore Channel, Main Channel, and the Cal-Sag Channel, in Cook County, Illinois, for its Annual Chicago River Day Clean-Up Event on May 10, 2014. Consideration shall be a nominal fee of $10.00RecommendedPass Action details Video Video
14-0264 123Agenda ItemAuthority to commence statutory procedures to lease approximately 15.40 acres of District real estate located west of Kedzie Avenue and south of the Main Channel in Chicago, IL; Main Channel Parcels 41.04, 41.07 and 41.10RecommendedPass Action details Not available
14-0265 124Agenda ItemAuthority to grant a 25-year, 20’ x 40’ non-exclusive easement to Commonwealth Edison Company to install, operate, maintain, repair and remove two 34Kv circuit breakers on District property located at 2211 Ashland Avenue in Evanston, Illinois; North Shore Channel Parcel 2.12. Consideration shall be an initial annual fee of $2,500.00RecommendedPass Action details Video Video
14-0266 125Agenda ItemAuthority to grant a 25-year, 20’ x 280’ non-exclusive easement to the City of Evanston for the continued operation, maintenance, repair, and removal of a 48-inch storm sewer through District North Shore Channel Parcel 2.13 located south of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad and east of the North Shore Channel in Evanston, Illinois. Consideration shall be $10.00RecommendedPass Action details Not available
14-0267 126Agenda ItemAuthority to issue a 15-year permit to Vulcan Materials Company on a 10’ x 10’ area of District Main Channel Parcel 33.03 and access thereto through Main Channel Parcel 33.02 located in Bedford Park, Illinois to install and maintain a seismograph. Consideration shall be $10.00RecommendedPass Action details Video Video
14-0278 127Agenda ItemAuthority to issue a 2-year permit to Capitol Cement Company to operate a construction staging area on two (2) acres of District real estate located on North Shore Channel Parcel 6.20 and access thereto through North Shore Channel Parcels 6.01 and 6.02 located north of Howard Street and east of the North Shore Channel in Skokie, Illinois. Consideration shall be an annual fee of $17,424.00.RecommendedPass Action details Video Video
14-0283 128Agenda ItemAuthority to: (1) issue a three (3) month permit to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on 52 acres of District real estate located at Ridgeland Avenue and 119th Street in Alsip, Illinois and known as the Ridgeland Avenue Drying Beds to perform soil borings and (2) designate the Ridgeland Avenue Drying Beds site comprising 93+/- acres as a Corps regional sediment management facility. Consideration shall be $10.00RecommendedPass Action details Video Video
14-0286 129Agenda ItemAuthority to grant a 25-year, 750 sq.ft. non-exclusive easement to Commonwealth Edison Company to continue to operate, maintain and remove a steel liner plate, electrical lines and appurtenances thereto below the surface of District real estate along the South Branch of the Chicago River, between Polk Street and Roosevelt Road in Chicago, Illinois. Consideration shall be an initial annual fee of $2,500.00RecommendedPass Action details Video Video
14-0291 130Agenda ItemAuthority to issue a 6-month permit extension to IM Crushing, LLC, as successor corporation to Illinois Mining Corporation, to continue to mine, remove, and purchase channel excavation rock from approximately 41.22 acres of District real estate located south of the Cal-Sag Channel between Cicero and Kostner Avenues in Crestwood, Illinois, and known as Cal-Sag Channel Atlas Parcel 12.05. Consideration shall be $0.25 per ton of rock removed from the permit’s premises paid after IM Crushing, LLC has used a credit of up to $360,000.00 for the removal of approximately 12,000 cubic yards of broken concrete located on the premises.RecommendedPass Action details Video Video
14-0292 131Agenda ItemAuthorization to negotiate an intergovernmental agreement with the Lake County Forest Preserve District and the Village of Buffalo Grove to expand the floodwater storage capacity of Buffalo Creek ReservoirRecommendedPass Action details Not available
14-0293 132Agenda ItemAuthority to negotiate intergovernmental agreements with municipalities for authorization to administer provisions of the Watershed Management Ordinance with respect to stormwater managementRecommendedPass Action details Video Video
14-0294 133Agenda ItemAuthority to negotiate intergovernmental agreements with multi-county municipalities whereby the municipality will adopt and enforce a stormwater ordinance of a collar county for the entire municipalityRecommendedPass Action details Video Video
14-0295 134Agenda ItemAuthority for payment to Commonwealth Edison Company for an advance deposit for engineering services for Contract 10-882-AF, Streambank Stabilization Projects along Tinley Creek in the Village of Orland Park and Contract 10-882-BF, Streambank Stabilization Projects along Midlothian Creek and Calumet Union Drainage Ditch in the Village of Markham, in an amount of $45,000.00, Account 501-50000-612490.RecommendedPass Action details Not available
14-0296 135Agenda ItemAuthorization to negotiate and enter into intergovernmental agreements with the Village of Niles, City of Des Plaines, and City of Park Ridge for Contract 12-056-3F, Flood Control Project on Farmers and Prairie CreeksRecommendedPass Action details Not available
14-0254 136Memorial ResolutionMEMORIAL RESOLUTION sponsored by the Board of Commissioners extending sympathy and condolences to the family of Leonard KellyRecommendedPass Action details Not available
14-0205 137ResolutionRESOLUTION sponsored by the Board of Commissioners recognizing the 47th Annual Chicago Business Opportunity FairRecommendedPass Action details Not available