ADOPTED - DECEMBER 14, 2004

Agenda Item No. 15

Introduced by the County Services and Finance Committees of the:

INGHAM COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

RESOLUTION TO CONTRACT WITH RONNIE M. LESTER AS COUNTY REPRESENTATIVE AND WOLVERINE ENGINEERS AND SURVEYORS, INC. FOR SERVICES AS MONUMENTATION SURVEYOR FOR THE INGHAM COUNTY MONUMENTATION AND REMONUMENTATION PROJECT

RESOLUTION #04-370

WHEREAS, Acts 345 and 346, P.A. of 1990, states that each County in the State of Michigan shall prepare a County Monumentation and Remonumentation Plan; and

WHEREAS, the Ingham County Monumentation and Remonumentation Plan was submitted by the Ingham County Board of Commissioners and approved by the State Survey and Remonumentation Commission on June 24, 1992; and

WHEREAS, as required by Act 345, P.A. 1990 a condition of receiving annual grant funds to implement the County Monumentation and Remonumentation Plan is that the County obtain and/or contract with a professional surveyor to oversee the activities of the grant project; and

WHEREAS, Ronnie M. Lester, D.B.A. Polaris Surveying Company, was selected in 1992 to be the Ingham County Representative and has since been an integral part of the implementation of the Ingham County Monumentation and Remonumentation Plan; and

WHEREAS,  the Ingham County Remonumentation Committee has gone  through a Request for Proposal process to select a qualified surveying company(ies) to conduct the actual research and monumentation field work necessary to accomplish the objectives of the grant agreement; and.

WHEREAS, Wolverine Engineers and Surveyors, Inc. submitted a proposal to perform all of the monumentation services for 2005; and

WHEREAS,  it is the recommendation of the Purchasing Department, with the concurrence of the Remonumentation Committee, that it is in the County’s best interest to authorize a contract with Wolverine Engineers and Surveyors, Inc. for services as monumentation surveyor for 2005.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, upon the respectful recommendation of the Ingham County Remonumentation Committee, that the Ingham County Board of Commissioners contract with Ronnie M. Lester, D.B.A. Polaris Surveying Company, upon approval of

ADOPTED - DECEMBER 14, 2004

Agenda Item No. 15

RESOLUTION #04-370

the 2005 Grant Application by the State Monumentation and Remonumentation Commission, for the related services of County Representative as required by Act 345, P.A. 1990.  Said contract to be funded by Survey and Remonumentation grant funds authorized under Act 345, P.A. 1990, for the period of one year, January 1, 2005 through December 31, 2005, at a cost not to exceed $29,120.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Ingham County Board of Commissioners authorizes a contract for the services of County Remonumentation Project Surveyor as required by Act 345, P.A., 1990, with Wolverine Engineers and Surveyors, Inc., said contract to be funded by Survey and Remonumentation grant funds for a period of one year, January 1, 2005 through December 31, 2005, in an amount not to exceed $137,252.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the County Chairperson and County Clerk have authority to sign said contracts and Corporation Counsel be directed to prepare the necessary contracts.

COUNTY SERVICES:  Yeas:  Swope, Thomas, Hertel, Severino, Nevin

      Nays:  None          Absent:  De Leon       Approved 12/7/04

FINANCE:   Yeas:   Lynch, Grebner, DeLeon, Thomas, Minter

Nays:  None           Absent:  Dedden       Approved 12/13/04