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0 72-R-02
A RESOLUTION
Authorizing the City Manager to
Sign an Agreement with
Commonwealth Edison ("ComEd") for
Vegetation Management Practices
WHEREAS, Commonwealth Edison Company ("ComEd"), an Illinois electric
public utility provides electric delivery services to electric customers in the City of
Evanston; and
WHEREAS, ComEd and the City of Evanston agree to the common goal of
providing adequate, efficient, reliable, and safe electricity at the least cost; and
WHEREAS, ComEd and the City of Evanston agree that vegetation should be
40 maintained so as to minimize the risk of electrocution from distribution circuit wires; and
WHEREAS, ComEd and the City of Evanston agree that proper management of
vegetation, including the trimming of trees and the proper selection of appropriate
species near electric distribution wires is critical to the maintenance of adequate,
efficient, reliable, and safe electric delivery services; and
WHEREAS, ComEd and the City of Evanston agree that ComEd's vegetation
management should be performed so as to minimize the effect on trees, to the extent
reasonably possible given the goal of maintaining adequate, efficient, reliable, and safe
electric delivery service;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
0 OF EVANSTON, COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS:
72-R-02
SECTION 1: That the City Manager is hereby authorized and directed to sign,
and the City Clerk hereby authorized and directed to attest on behalf of the City of
Evanston, an Agreement with ComEd, an Illinois public utility marked as Exhibit A
attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference.
SECTION 2: That the City Manager is hereby authorized and directed to
negotiate any additional terms and conditions of the agreement as may be determined
to be in the best interests of the City.
SECTION 3: That this Resolution shall be in full force and effect from and after
its passage and approval in the manner provide by law.
Lorraine H. Morton, Mayor
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Adopted: l��t'-'(��-ti �! , 2002
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