Record #: O2013-1607   
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
Intro date: 3/13/2013 Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Budget and Government Operations
Final action: 4/10/2013
Title: Intergovernmental agreement with Chicago Transit Authority regarding traffic control services in conjunction wth Red Line renovation project
Sponsors: Emanuel, Rahm
Topic: AGREEMENTS - Intergovernmental
Attachments: 1. O2013-1607.pdf
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ORDINANCE
WHEREAS, the City of Chicago (the 'City") is a municipal corporation and home rule unit of local government under Section 6(a), Article VII of the 1970 Constitution of the State of Illinois; and
WHEREAS, the Chicago Transit Authority (the "CTA") is a municipal corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Illinois; and
WHEREAS, the CTA will undertake the reconstruction of the southern Red Line (the "Project") from the Cermak-Chinatown station to the 95,h/Dan Ryan station (the "Affected Area"); and

WHEREAS, it is anticipated that the Project will increase traffic congestion in and around the Affected Area; and

WHEREAS, the City requested that CTA commit to pay for OEMC Traffic Management Authority Traffic Control Aides Hourly (Title Code 9104) ("TCAHs") to be deployed in and around the Affected Area (including the 95m/Dan Ryan Red Line station, the Garfield Green Line station, and throughout the bus shuttle area north of the 9500 block of South State Street and south of the 5500 block of South Calumet Avenue) during the Project to mitigate such traffic congestion; and
WHEREAS, the City and CTA now desire to enter into an agreement in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit 1 (the "Agreement"), under the terms and conditions of which CTA agrees to reimburse the City for the costs of the City's deployment of TCAHs for the Project in the Affected Areas; now, therefore;

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO:
SECTION 1. The above recitals, and the statements of fact and findings made therein, are incorporated herein and made a material part of this ordinance.

SECTION 2. The Executive Director of OEMC or his designee (the "Executive Director") is authorized to execute the Agreement in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit 1 and such other documents as are necessary in connection there...

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