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Meeting Name: Committee of the Whole Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 2/21/2013 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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13-0115 11ReportReport of bid opening of Tuesday, February 5, 2013RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0117 12Agenda ItemAuthority to advertise Contract 13-816-21 Furnish and Deliver One Steel Cutting Shear to the Calumet Water Reclamation Plant, estimated cost $175,000.00, Account 201-50000-634650, Requisition 1353988RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0118 13Agenda ItemAuthority to advertise Contract 11-839-21 Replacement of an Inverter System at the Pump and Blower House at the Calumet Water Reclamation Plant, estimated cost $112,400.00, Account 201-50000-645650, Requisition 1350859RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0128 14Agenda ItemAuthority to advertise Contract 13-628-11 Repair of Truck Scales at Various Service Areas, estimated cost $33,000.00, Accounts 101-66000/69000-612650/612680/623270, Requisitions 1350307 and 1351244RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0138 15Agenda ItemAuthority to advertise Contract 13-619-11 Rebabbitting Pump Motor Bearings at the O’Brien Water Reclamation Plant, estimated cost $27,000.00, Account 101-67000-612600, Requisition 1355883RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0116 16Agenda ItemIssue purchase order for Contract 13-722-21, Furnish and Deliver a 4160/480 Liquid-Filled Transformer to the Egan Water Reclamation Plant, to Wesco Distribution Inc., d/b/a Englewood Electrical Supply Company, in an amount not to exceed $38,818.00, Account 201-50000-645650, Requisition 1349949RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0129 17Agenda ItemIssue purchase order to R.S. Means Company, to Furnish and Deliver Costworks Annual License Renewal, in an amount not to exceed $19,500.00, Account 101-27000-612820, Requisition 1355886RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0132 18Agenda ItemIssue purchase order and enter into an agreement for Contract 12-RFP-09 Purchase, Installation and Configuration of Cellular Telephones, Accessories and Wireless Communications Services, with AT&T Mobility National Accounts LLC in an amount not to exceed $1,003,500.00, Accounts 101-27000-612210, 623850, Requisition 1336523RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0134 19Agenda ItemIssue purchase order to Vulcan Industries, Inc., to Furnish and Deliver Parts for the Vulcan Screens at the Racine Avenue Pumping Station, and at the O’Brien and Egan Water Reclamation Plants, in an amount not to exceed $78,000.00, Accounts 101-67000, 69000-623270, Requisitions 1350803 and 1351264RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0137 110Agenda ItemIssue purchase order and enter into an agreement with Doctors of Physical Therapy (DPT) for Contract 12-RFP-28 On-Site Physical Therapy for a two-year period, with an option to extend for a third year, in an amount not to exceed $200,000.00, Account 901-30000-601090, Requisition 1345038Deferred  Action details Not available
13-0142 111Agenda ItemIssue purchase order and enter into an agreement with Networkfleet, Inc., for Maintenance of the Vehicle Location System for District Vehicles, in an amount not to exceed $17,000.00, Account 101-15000-612860, Requisition 1354785Deferred  Action details Not available
13-0143 112Agenda ItemIssue purchase order and enter into an agreement with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, for a Three-Dimensional Hydrodynamic and Water Quality Model for the Chicago Area Waterway System, in an amount not to exceed $640,248.00, Account 201-52000-601170, Requisition 1356183Deleted  Action details Not available
13-0130 113Agenda ItemAuthority to decrease Contract 98-RFP-10 Design, Build, Own Finance, Operate and Maintain a 150 Dry Tons Per Day Biosolids Processing Facility at the Stickney Water Reclamation Plant and Beneficially Use the Final Product for a Period of 20 Years, to Metropolitan Biosolids Management, LLC, in an amount of $1,568,904.33 from an amount of $214,053,802.51 to an amount not to exceed $212,484,898.18, Account 101-69000-612590, Purchase Order 5000950Deferred  Action details Not available
13-0139 114Agenda ItemAuthority to increase purchase order and exercise an option to extend agreement for one year, for on-line legal research and subscriptions to various legal publications, with West Publishing Corporation, in an amount of $73,576.00 , from an amount of $206,390.00, to an amount not to exceed $279,966.00, Account 101-30000-612490, 623720, Purchase Order 3062855RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0114 115Agenda ItemAuthority to settle the Workers’ Compensation claim of Bobby Bell vs. MWRDGC, Case Number 09 WC 42659, Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission (IWCC), in the sum of $400,000.00. Account 901-30000-601090 RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0136 116Agenda ItemAuthorization to issue specific leases to tenant farmers under the farm management program administrated by the District’s consultant, Heartland Bank and Trust Company, for land parcels of various acreages located at the Prairie Plan Operations in Fulton County, Illinois, for a three year period. Consideration shall be a sum total for all leases of $999,058.00.RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0105 117Agenda ItemAuthority to issue a 4-month permit extension to Albany Auto Sales to continue to access, use, and maintain a boat dock on approximately 2,009 square feet of District real estate located along the North Branch of the Chicago River adjacent to 4030 North Rockwell Street in Chicago. Consideration shall be $2,500.00RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0121 118Agenda ItemAuthority to grant a 25-year easement on a 1.2-arce area to Commonwealth Edison Company (“ComEd”) for continued operation, maintenance, renewal and removal of two underground tunnels and head houses for each tunnel underneath the Main Channel midway between Central Park Avenue and Pulaski Road, Chicago, Illinois, to the Crawford Generating Station property on the north side of the Main Channel, along with electric transformers, poles, towers, insulators and concrete slab foundations on Main Channel Parcel 41.09. Consideration shall be an initial fee of $12,071.50RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0123 119Agenda ItemAuthority to grant a 25-year, 20’ x 2,605’ easement to Commonwealth Edison Company (“ComEd”) for continued operation, maintenance and renewal of a roadway along the south side of the Main Channel beginning at Cicero Avenue, and continuing easterly to Main Channel Parcel 41.09, for access to its facilities located thereon. Consideration shall be an initial fee of $13,025.00RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0125 120Agenda ItemAuthority to issue a 5-year permit to U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service to use Main Channel Parcel 15.05 in Lockport, Will County, Illinois to launch and retrieve boats used to collect and analyze aquatic species in the Main Channel. Consideration shall be a nominal fee of $10.00RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0126 121Agenda ItemAuthority to issue a 3-month permit extension to the Village of Lemont for the continued use of a 1-acre portion of Main Channel Parcel 23.04 located along the south bank of the Main Channel and east of the Lemont Road Overpass in Lemont, Illinois, for the storage of approximately 2,000 tons of road salt. Consideration shall be $2,167.00RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0127 122Agenda ItemAuthority to issue a 2-month permit to Geo Services, Inc. and its subcontractor, Alfred Benesch & Company, to access District Main Channel Parcels 34.05, 34.08, 35.02, 35.03, 37.03 and HASMA to perform soil borings for an IDOT project. Consideration shall be a document preparation fee of $2,500.00RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0140 123Agenda ItemAuthorization for payment to the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency for a Section 401 water quality certification permit in the amount of $10,000.00 in connection with Oak Lawn Creek Streambank Stabilization Project, Contract 10-237-5F, Account 501-50000-601170RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0145 124Agenda ItemAuthority to negotiate an Intergovernmental Agreement with the City of Northlake concerning Lower Des Plaines River Detailed Watershed Plan Project ADCR-7BRecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0148 125Agenda ItemAuthorization to negotiate an intergovernmental agreement with the Lake County Forest Preserve District to expand the floodwater storage capacity of Buffalo Creek Reservoir (As Revised)RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0124 126Memorial ResolutionMEMORIAL RESOLUTION sponsored by the Board of Commissioners extending sympathy and condolences to the family of the Honorable Gay-Lloyd LottRecommended  Action details Not available
13-0112 127ResolutionRESOLUTION sponsored by the Board of Commissioners recognizing National Engineers WeekRecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0150 128Agenda ItemAuthority to increase purchase order and amend the agreement with Hewlett-Packard Company for Maintenance Services for Computer Software and Hardware, in an amount of $651,606.60 from an amount of $1,257,181.65, to an amount not to exceed $1,908,788.25, Accounts 101-27000-612810, 612820, Purchase Order 3062338RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0151 129ReportAnnual Report for the Deferred Compensation Plan and Trust for 2011 and 2012RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0152 130Agenda ItemAuthorization to execute change orders to decrease purchase orders or carry forward FY2012 encumbrances to FY2013 RecommendedPass Action details Not available
13-0153 131ReportReport on District participation in 2013 parades (As Revised)RecommendedPass Action details Not available