Title/Name/Summary
First Amendment to the Oak Lawn Regional Water System - Ordinance
History
As the Board is aware, the Oak Lawn Regional Water System (RWS) delivers Chicago water to the Village of Orland Park and other local southwest and southeast communities through the Village of Oak Lawn. In 2013, the RWS Supply and Service Agreement between the Village of Oak Lawn and the communities to which Oak Lawn provides water was finalized. This agreement included the design and construction of a fully redundant secondary transmission line which will deliver water needs to the southwest and southeast communities in the event of a catastrophic failure of the present transmission line, as well as other improvements to the water distribution system. It also provides the participating communities the ability to meet future water demands. Engineering and construction of several segments of the project have already been completed or are currently under way.
On September 9, 2020, as part of an update for participating customer communities, staff participated in a RWS meeting. The purpose of the meeting was to inform the Mayors of each of the respective customer communities on project status, as well as to discuss a much-needed amendment to the existing agreement in order to complete engineering and construction of the RWS approved improvements. To date, the RWS approved program cost is approximately $216 million; however, due to multiple factors and delays, the project requires additional capital infusion to complete as intended.
Attached is a copy of the handout presentation and supplemental documentation for the project. The presentation provides more details regarding the project, and the specifics to the amendment needed to move forward.
The following are the next steps for this project:
1. Approval of ordinances by each customer community to the RWS Water Sale, Purchase and Service Agreement. This ordinance needs to be approved prior to the deadline for ame...
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