HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda Statement 1971/09/14 Item Reso 6211Form No. CA 100
REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION
DATE: September 9, 1971
FROM: Lane F. Cole, Director of Public Works
TO: City Attorney
SUBJECT: Appropriating Funds for the Removal of Traffic Island on
Broadway between H and I Streets
Your office is requested to prepare the necessary [X] Resolution;
[ ] Ordinance; [ ] Agreement; to be presented to the City Council for
action on September 14 , 19 71, on the subject matter.
Supporting information: (Use other side if necessary)
The City Council, at their.regular meeting on September 7, 1971,
accepted bids and awarded the contract to Perry Electric for the
installation of a signal system for the intersection of Otay
Lakes Road and Allen School Lane in the amount of $8300. This
contract includes the removal of the crosswalk and all appurtenant
facilities located on Broadway between H and I Streets. The cost
of this work is $1600.
On August 19, 1971, a memo to the City Manager indicated that the
cost of removing the crosswalk and facilities cannot be financed
from Gas Tax funds. It will therefore be necessary to appropriate
the cost of this work from the unappropriated surplus of the
General Fund.
Prepare a resolution for Council action appropriating $1600 from
the unappropriated surplus fund to cover this expenditure.
Attachments:
Originating Dept. No. E -138
-Form No. CA 102 f
. 7 -66
CERTIFICATE OF CITY FINANCE OFFICER
Certification of Unappropriated Balance
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the money required for the
appropriation of funds for the purpose set forth in the
attached resolution is available in the Treasury, or is
anticipated to come into the Treasury, and is otherwise
unappropriated.
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Certification of Unencumbered Balance
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the indebtedness and oblig-
ation to be incurred by the contract or agreement author-
ized by the attached resolution can be incurred without
the violation of any of the provisions of the Charter of
the City of Chula Vista, or the Constitution or the laws
of the State of California, that sufficient monies have
been appropriated for the purpose of said contract, that
sufficient monies to meet the obligations of the contract
are actually in the Treasury, or are anticipated to come
into the Treasury to the credit of the appropriation from
which the same are to be drawn, and that said monies now
actually in the Treasury, together with the monies antic-
ipated to come into the Treasury, to the credit of said
appropriation are otherwise unencumbered.
Amount Not to Exceed $
Date
Fund
Purpose
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Finance Officer
The City of Chula Vista
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August 19, 1971
TO: John Thomson, City Manager
VIP.: Bob Bourcier, Assistant City Manager
FROM: Bill Robens, Assistant Director of Public Works
SUBJECT: Request for Authorization to Call for Bids for the
Removal of the Traffic Signal on Broadway Between
H and I Streets and the Installation of Traffic
Signals at Otay Lakes Road and Allen School Lane
AGENDA ITEM -- August 24
On July 21 the City Council approved staff recommendation to
utilize existing materials from the pedestrian crosswalk on
Broadway between H and I Streets in the installation of traffic
signals at Otay Lakes Road and Allen School Lane. This request
is for authorization to call for bids for this construction
and the additional total removal of the traffic island and
other traffic equipment on Broadway between I1 and I Streets.
The City had been requested by they school authorities and the
residents in the vicinity of Otay Lakes Road and Allen. School
Lane to conduct a study at this intersection to ascertain
whether or not traffic signals were warranted.
Otay Lakes Road is the major route to Southwestern College,
has an ADT of 8200, is rural in character and has a 45 MPH
posted speed limit from Bonita Road to the Chula Vista city
limits. The intersection is posted school crossing that is
controlled by school crossing guards. Approximately 42 grammar
school children cross Otay Lakes Road to the Allen School from
the residential development to the east. In addition, there
are special illuminated school signs on Otay Lakes Road, north
and south of Allen School Lane, that are programmed to operate
during the period when pupils are going to or coming from
school. These signs have the legend "Speed Limit 25 MPH when
flashing."
Our survey revealed that the intersection warranted signal -
ization based on the interruption of continuous flow criteria.
This warrant states that at rural intersections there must be
a minimum entering flow for the peak 8 hours of the day of
500 vehicles. In addition, the combined vehicular and pedestrian
flow entering from the minor street must average 50 and the
average vehicular speed on the major street :rust exceed 35 MPH.
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The total flow entering for the peak 8 hours averages 721,
the minor flow is 63 and the average speed on Otay Lakes
Road is 38 MPH.
This will be a semi - actuated signal with the indication staying
continuously green on Otay Lakes Road until a vehicle approaching
on the minor sends an actuation to the controller. In addition,
there will be pedestrian indications controlled by push buttons
that will facilitate the pedestrian movement across Otay Lakes
Road.
Some of the equipment that will be used on this project will
be salvaged from the signalized crosswalk on Broadway between
H and I Streets, which will be removed.
The estimated cost of the signal installation will be $6600
and can be financed with 2106 Gas Tax funds. The cost for the
removal of the existing signal on Broadway, between H and I
Streets is $1100, which will be financed from the unappropriated
surplus of the General Fund.
It is requested that Council authorize the call for bids for
the removal of the traffic signal on Broadway between H and
I Streets and the installation of traffic signals at Otay
Lakes Road and Allen School Lane. Upon receipt of such
authorization, the attached schedule will become effective-
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Attachment
SCHEDULE
REMOVAI, OF TRAFFIC SIGNAL ON
BROADWAY, BETY:EEN H AND I STREETS,
A14D INSTALLATION OF TRAFFIC SIGNALS AT
OTAY LAKES ROAD AND ALLEN SCHOOL LANE
1. Council authorize call for bids
2. Advertise for bids
3. Receive bids
4. Award bid
5. Execute contract
6. Commence work
7. Complete work (60 days)
Engineer's estimate - $774100.00
August 24, 1971
August 29, 1971
September 7, 1971
September 14, 1971
September 24, 1971
October 1, 1971
November 30, 1971
The completion of work is contingent upon receipt of
materials.
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