Waukegan committee approves $121,000 engineering contract for metro station retaining wall

The Waukegan City Council Public Works and Infrastructure Committee voted to approve a resolution hiring Infrastructure Engineering Incorporated to provide engineering services for a retaining wall at the metro train station for a not-to-exceed amount of $121,000.

Alderman Newsom moved the resolution and Alderman Guzman seconded. On roll call the committee recorded votes of Aye from Aldermen Turner, Guzman, Danaworth, Hayes and Dusse; the motion passed.

The committee also handled routine procedural items at the same meeting. Members approved the public works committee minutes (the motion and second were recorded in the transcript as Alderman Guzman and Alderman Newsom) by roll call, with Aldermen Turner, Guzman, Danaworth and Newsom recorded as voting Aye. The committee also moved to seat Alderman Hayes; the transcript records the motion was made and seconded and the committee proceeded without further recorded debate.

The resolution approved engineering services “per section 2-4-58, subsection I, subsection 4, subsection professional services” (language as read into the record) and set a not-to-exceed contract amount of $121,000 to design or otherwise evaluate a retaining wall at the metro train station. The transcript contains no further detail about the project timeline, funding source, or contract start date.

Committee reports and communications followed; no additional staff direction or amendments to the engineering services resolution were recorded in the meeting transcript. The committee adjourned at about 6:06 p.m.