Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) is accepting applications to fund projects that address locations with a history of fatal or injury crashes where low-cost safety improvements have failed to solve the problem. The Highway Safety Improvement Program accepts formal safety applications twice a year, on March 31 and August 31; and it accepts abbreviated safety applications four times a year, on March 31, June 30, September 30, and December 31; and it accepts systemic safety applications once a year on January 31. These grants require a minimum 10% local match.
The Department of Public Service submitted applications seeking funds to construct safety improvements for (1) the Sullivant Avenue Bikeway project and (2) the Kimberly Parkway North at Kimberly Parkway East intersection improvements. This ordinance will authorize the Director of Public Service to execute project agreements for approved projects, to accept and expend grant funds, and to issue refunds, if necessary, after final accounting is performed or when notified by the Department of Public Service's Division of Design and Construction that a refund can be issued. Separate legislation authorizing the encumbrance and expenditure of capital funds to support the local share of anticipated project costs will be put forth at a later date as needed.
2. EXPECTED PROJECTS
The Department of Public Service submitted applications for the projects listed below:
540002-100116 - Bikeway - Sullivant Avenue - Georgesville Road to S Wilson Road: This project includes improvements to Sullivant Avenue to add pedestrian and bicycle facilities in the form of a Shared Use Path (SUP) on one side of the roadway and a sidewalk on the other side. The improvements are associated with the implementation of a reduction in travel lanes from 4-lanes to 3-lanes along Sullivant Avenue between Georgesville Road and S Wilson Road. This is a fall 2025 systemic safety application, and the total cost ...
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