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RESOLUTION NO. R1314-64: A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, PROGRAMMING FEDERAL SURFACE TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM URBANIZED AREA (STP-UZA-SAFETY) FUNDS FOR TRAFFIC SIGNAL VEHICLE VIDEO DETECTION UPGRADES CITYWIDE.
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BACKGROUND: The 2012 - Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21) federal transportation funding bill allocates approximately $21 Million in Federal funds per year for the implementation of eligible transportation improvements in the Oklahoma City metropolitan area. Ten percent of this appropriation is used to fund safety projects at 100% of their construction cost.
Every year, the Association of Central Oklahoma Governments (ACOG) coordinates a regional evaluation process that identifies transportation improvements eligible for federal funding. Individual projects are rated and compared to one another using a pre-established criterion. The process ends with the formulation of the region's transportation improvement program and the decision to use federal funds to pay for a significant portion of the cost of the higher priority projects.
DISCUSSION: On December 16, 2013, staff will submit twenty one (21) projects for consideration in the formulation of ACOG's Four-Year Transportation Improvement Program. One of the requirements for project consideration is that interested cities submit programming resolutions for each individual project. In years past, Council has adopted resolutions for twelve of the twenty one (21) projects. The nine projects that need programming resolutions in order to be considered in the new plan are:
New traffic signal at the intersection of Rock Creek Road and Sequoyah Trail
New traffic signal at the intersection of Robinson Street and 48th Avenue NW
Robinson Street fiber optic traffic signal interconnection upgrade (from Peters Avenue to 12th Avenue SE)
Roadway widening and new traffic signal at the intersection of 24th Avenue NW and Tee Drive
Roadway widening...
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