ADOPTED - DECEMBER 9, 2008

                                                                                                                        Agenda Item No. 18

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 IN 2009

RESOLUTION #08-351

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 2009; 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 2009.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, upon the respectful recommendation of the Ingham County Remonumentation Committee, that the Ingham County Board of Commissioners authorizes a contract with Ronnie M. Lester, D.B.A. Polaris Surveying Company, upon approval of the 2009 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, 2009 through December 31, 2009, at a cost not to exceed $13,440.

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, 2009 through December 31, 2009, in an amount not to exceed $72,463.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Board Chairperson and County Clerk are authorized to sign the necessary contracts after approval as to form by the County Attorney. 

COUNTY SERVICES:  Yeas:  Nolan, De Leon, Copedge, Soule, Grebner, Severino

  Nays:  None      Absent:  None        Approved 12/2/08

FINANCE:  Yeas:  Grebner, Hertel, Weatherwax-Grant, Schor, Dougan

     Nays:  None        Absent:  Celentino       Approved 12/3/08