CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM
ACTION REQUESTED:
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Adopt the resolution approving the fifth amendment to the intergovernmental agreement between the City of Naperville and the Naperville Park District for the Naperville Riverwalk
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DEPARTMENT: Transportation, Engineering and Development
SUBMITTED BY: Janette Erickson, Riverwalk Administrator and William Novack, Director of TED
BOARD/COMMISSION REVIEW:
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BACKGROUND:
Commencing in 2003 the City of Naperville and the Naperville Park District agreed on jointly funding the maintenance of the Riverwalk. Following completion of the initial section between Main Street and Eagle Street in 1981, the Naperville Riverwalk grew significantly during its first two decades, stretching from Jefferson Avenue to Hillside Road. The Park District had agreed to maintain that initial 1981 section, and as each section was added everyone assumed the Park District could carry the maintenance burden.
Following the completion of the east extension of the Riverwalk from Washington Street to Hillside Road the Park District stated they could no longer fund all the maintenance, resulting in the 2003 maintenance agreement. That agreement basically stated that the Park District would pay for all maintenance west of Washington Street and the City would pay for everything east of Washington Street and all future additions to the Riverwalk. Additionally, there was a provision that required the City to fund any difference between inflation of the Park District's maintenance cost and any taxing limitations that Park District faced. At the end of 2018 the City and Park District will have finished the third maintenance agreement between the two agencies, with each agreement having a five-year term.
DISCUSSION:
Addition of Harmony Park to the Riverwalk
The maintenance agreement requires that any new addition to the Riverwalk be reviewed and approved by the Naperville Riverwalk Commission, the Naperville Park District and the Naperville Ci...
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