The Executive Director is authorized to sign the following:
(A) Applications or filings arising in the ordinary course of business, contracts, easements, licenses, leases or concessions, if the total cost or consideration to CRD does not exceed the simple threshold, over the term, if any, of the document, including all extensions;
(B) Contracts, easements, licenses, leases and concessions with government agencies or public utilities if the total cost or consideration to CRD does not exceed two times the simple threshold over the term of the document, including all extensions. Utility contracts incident to a capital project have no limitation, provided the Board has approved the expenditure of the relevant funds through the annual operating or capital budgets;
(C) Rights-of-entry and filming agreements, permitting the temporary use of CRD’s property by third parties where such term, including all extensions, is less than two years. Such two-year limitation shall not apply to rights-of-entry agreements issued to or on behalf of government agencies or units of local government;
(D) Documents arising in the ordinary course of business pertaining to the real estate assets of CRD, including, but not limited to, written consents, assignments, subletting, tenant mortgages, estoppel certificates and lease or license terminations or releases;
(E) Confidentiality agreements or their release;
(F) The Executive Director may sign agreements with railroads or government agencies for crossings, joint facilities, fixed facilities, trackage rights and purchases of service that are necessary to accommodate the operation, repair, renovation or construction of commuter facilities or related improvements in an amount exceeding the simple threshold, provided that the Board has approved expenditure of the relevant funds through the annual operating or capital budget. This paragraph does not authorize the signing of purchase of service agreements with the Union Pacific Railroad Company, the BNSF Railway Company, NICTD or their successors, but does authorize the extension of such agreements on substantially the same terms;
(G) Documents effecting or implementing the terms of trackage agreements, purchase of service agreements, excursion agreements or pilot agreements, including temporary service changes or fare changes for recurring seasonal or one-time civic events, and contracts for one-time, periodic, intermittent or annual trackage use agreements or special trains for charitable or not-for-profit organizations, seasonal or themed events or other special trains with a primary focus on goodwill or community relations; and
(H) Notwithstanding any other provision herein, the Executive Director may only sign contracts and amendments for professional legislative consulting services, and any other services necessary to represent and promote the interests of CRD to federal, state and local elected officials and their staffs, on approval of the Board.
(Ord. MET 19-03, passed 3-20-2019)