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8/21/79
43-R-79
A RESOLUTION
Authorizing The City Manager To
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Conservation Program Funds
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WHEREAS, the Department of the Interior, Heritage Conservation and
iRecreation Service's Land and Water Conservation Fund Program (public law
88-578 passed September 3, 1964) provides financial assistance to local
governments for development of outdoor recreation resources; and
WHEREAS, the Human Services Committee of the City Council of the
City of Evanston has recommended to the full Council a project of construct-
ing a protective breakwater at the Church Street boat ramp at a total cost
of Five Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($550,000.00); and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Evanston does approve
said project with the condition that no more than One Hundred Fifty Thousand
Dollars ($150,000.00) of City funds shall be utilized and that all remaining
funds shall be obtained from state and federal grants and private sources;
and
WHEREAS, one such state source is the Land and Water Conservation
Fund Program;
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(! NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of
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�j Evanston, Cook County, Illinois, hereby approves said project with the fund-
ing limitations as set forth above.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Manager shall be and is
hereby authorized to file an application for partial financial assistance in
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43-R-79 !
• i the amount of One Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($150,000.00) from the
Land and Water Conservation Fund Program to be utilized toward the develop-
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f ment of said breakwater project.
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BE IT.FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Manager is further authorized
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f and directed to execute and file with the Department of Conservation of the i
State of Illinois an application for said funds and to provide all ihforma-
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tion and documentation required in said application.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Council hereby does agree to
obligate the amount of One Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($150,000.00) re-
quired for the City of Evanston to qualify for the financial assistance of
One Hundred -Fifty Thousand Dollars ($150,000.00) from the Land and Water
Conservation Fund.
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! ATTEST:
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I / City Clerk
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Adopted : 47 1979.
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