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Ordinance
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Status:
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Passed
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Title:
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Intergovernmental agreement with Chicago Board of Education regarding accessibility improvements
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Topic:
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AGREEMENTS - Intergovernmental
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S:\Finance\Gaynor New\Housing & Econ Dev\2011 ADA IGA with CPS\sub ord 1 .doc SUBSTITUTE ORDINANCE , WHEREAS, the City of Chicago (the "City") is a municipal corporation and home rule unit of government under Article VII, Section 6(a) of the 1970 Constitution of the State of Illinois; and WHEREAS, the Board of Education of the City of Chicago (the "Board") is a body corporate and politic, organized under and existing pursuant to Article 34 of the School Code of the State of Illinois; and WHEREAS, the Board and the City are committed to providing access to public schools for students, parents, employees and community members with disabilities; and WHEREAS, pursuant to an ordinance adopted by the City Council of the City (the "City Council") on April 9, 2008 and Board Resolution 08-0423-RS21 adopted by the Board on April 23, 2008, the Board and the City embarked on a joint five-year program to rehabilitate public schools to increase accessibility (the "Program") pursuant to that certain Intergovernmental Agreement between the City and the Board dated as of October 28, 2009 (the "2009 Agreement"); and WHEREAS, as contemplated by the 2009 Agreement, the Board and the City intended that approximately 27 schools, 15 of which were the subject of the 2009 Agreement, would be rehabilitated during the first year of the Program; and WHEREAS, pursuant to the 2009 Agreement, the City granted $14,500,000 in the aggregate to the Board towards the cost of the rehabilitation of the aforementioned 15 schools; and WHEREAS, as contemplated by the 2009 Agreement, the Board and the City intended that the Board and the City would together dedicate not less than $25,000,000 in total towards the Program in each of the second, third, fourth and fifth years of the Program, subject, on the City's part, to due authorization and the appropriation of funds; and WHEREAS, the City and the Board now desire to enter into an agreement in substantially the form attached heret...
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