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File #: 22-0495    Version: 1
Type: Agenda Item Status: Adopted
File created: 5/12/2022 In control: Real Estate Development Committee
On agenda: 5/19/2022 Final action: 5/19/2022
Title: Authority to issue a 9-month confined space entry permit to the City of Chicago to access the District’s Intercepting Sewer System in Chicago, Illinois to install, maintain, monitor and remove flow meters in advance of the City’s Area 4 Tunnel project.  Consideration shall be a nominal fee of $10.00
Attachments: 1. RE - City of Chicago Confined Space permit.pdf

TRANSMITTAL LETTER FOR BOARD MEETING OF MAY 19, 2022

 

COMMITTEE ON REAL ESTATE

 

Mr. Brian A. Perkovich, Executive Director

 

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Authority to issue a 9-month confined space entry permit to the City of Chicago to access the District’s Intercepting Sewer System in Chicago, Illinois to install, maintain, monitor and remove flow meters in advance of the City’s Area 4 Tunnel project.  Consideration shall be a nominal fee of $10.00

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Dear Sir:

 

The City of Chicago (“City”) has requested a 9-month permit for access to the District’s Intercepting Sewer System (“Sewer System”) at the intersections of 81st Street and Colfax Avenue and 94th Street and Martin Luther King Drive, in Chicago, Illinois to install, maintain, monitor, and remove flow meters in advance of the City’s Area 4 Tunnel project. This project will address longstanding flooding and sewer surcharge issues in these areas. The City must access the District’s Sewer System to reach its own sewers. 

 

The District’s technical departments have no objections to issuing the permit provided that 24-hour unrestricted access to District structures and sewers is maintained.  The City and its contractor will also be required to execute confined space entry releases.

 

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 and approve the issuance of a 9-month confined space entry permit to the City of Chicago to access the District’s Intercepting Sewer System in Chicago, Illinois to install, maintain, monitor, and remove flow meters in advance of the City’s Area 4 Tunnel project.

 

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:MTC:MSZ

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 May 19, 2022

 

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