Explanation
Background: The Paving the Way...Program has been serving the citizens of the Greater Columbus area since 1990. This Program provides up-to-date roadway construction information to the public and the media on traffic detours, alternate travel routes, road closures, technical advice and coordination for road construction related activities, public messages advocating work zone safety, demand reduction (carpooling, use of mass transit) and traffic management. Additionally, Paving The Way… maintains a web site www.pavingtheway.org and automated mailing lists that send out construction updates to over 3,000 recipients daily.
This ordinance authorizes the Public Service Director to enter into a three-year contract with the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) and the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC).
Fiscal Impact: The cost of the three-year program will be $830,000.00 of which eighty percent (80%) is funded with MORPC STP-M funds ($664,000.00) and twenty percent local funds ($166,000.00).
The city's share over the three-year period will be $166,000.00 and will come from Street Construction, Maintenance and Repair Fund. This ordinance appropriates the entire MORPC share ($664,000.00) and City match ($166,000.00) into the General Government Grant Fund, where it is then authorized for expenditure.
Emergency action is requested to allow the financial transactions to be posted to the City’s accounting systems as soon as is possible and allow the Paving the Way program to continue its mission with as little disruption as possible.
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To authorize the Public Service Director to enter into an agreement with the Director of the Ohio Department of Transportation and the Executive Director of the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission for the 2014-2017 Paving The Way program for the Division of Planning and Operations; to appropriate and transfer $166,000.00 within the Street Construction Maintenance and Repair Fund; to appropriate...
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