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 two-year contract with the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) and the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC).
Fiscal Impact: The cost of the two-year program will be $360,000.00 of which eighty percent (80%) MORPC funds ($288,000.00) and twenty percent is from local funds ($72,000.00).
The city's share over the two-year period will be $72,000.00 and will come from Street Construction, Maintenance and Repair Fund. This ordinance appropriates the entire MORPC share ($288,000.00) and city match ($72,000.00) into the General Government Grant Fund, and authorizes the expenditure.
Emergency action: The department requests emergency designation to allow the posting of financial transactions 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.
Title
To authorize the Public Service Director to enter into an agreement with the Ohio Department of Transportation and the Executive Director of the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission for the 2016-2017 Paving The Way program for the Division of Traffic Management; to appropriate and transfer $72,000.00 within the Street Construction Maintenance and Repair Fund; to appropriate $360,000.00 within the G...
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