Number
010402
Version
ORIGINAL
Reference
Sponsor
The Chair
Title
Resolution relative to the cost participation and installation of traffic control devices in conjunction with the Federal/State Aid paving of West Fond du Lac Avenue from North 19th Street to North 36th Street in the 7th, 10th, and 17th Aldermanic Districts. (Infrastructure Services Division)
Analysis
This resolution authorizes the Commissioner of Public Works to install the necessary traffic control facilities in conjunction with a Federal/State Aid highway improvement contract with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation.
Body
Whereas, The Surface Transportation Program provides cost participation
or traffic control improvements in conjunction with the paving of highways
located on the Federal/State Aid Highway System; and
Whereas, Common Council Resolution File Number 890251 adopted on
June 6, 1989 authorized and directed the Commissioner of Public Works to
execute an agreement for programming and construction of the
improvement of West Fond du Lac Avenue from North 19th Street to
North 36th Street with Federal/State Aid under the State Trunk Highway
Program; and
Whereas, The total estimated cost of this project is $ 193,000 for the
alteration and upgrading of traffic control signals and the upgrading
of traffic control signs; and
Whereas, One hundred percent of the participating project cost or
$ 193,000 is reimbursable from The Wisconsin Department of
Transportation, and this amount is not included in Division
accounts, and should be earmarked for this project in the 2001
Capital Grant and Aid Projects Fund Project/Grant Number
SP032010100; now, therefore, be it
Resolved, By the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee, that the
Commissioner of Public Works be and hereby is authorized and directed
to execute a contract with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation
pertaining to the cost participation for the installation and/or
modification of traffic control facilities in conjunction with the improvements
to West Fond du Lac Avenue from North 19th Street to North 36th
Street with service and supply unit prices based on a predetermined estimate
prepared under the Federal/State aided highway program; and,
be it
Further Resolved, That upon approval of this contract, the Commissioner
of Public Works is authorized and directed to install or modify the traffic
control facilities necessary in conjunction with the paving of these
Federal/State aided highway improvements; and, be it
Further Resolved, That upon approval of this contract, the City Comptroller
is hereby authorized to create within the Capital Grant and Aid Projects
Fund the appropriate Project/Grant Number for this project and transfer to
this number the amounts required under the contract provisions but
not to exceed a ten percent increase in those amounts set aside for the
Grantor's Share and the City's Share as follows:
Location:
West Fond du Lac Avenue from North 19th Street to North 36th Street, ID #1360-01-94.
Transfer from Project/Grant Number SP032010100,
Grantor's Share (WISDOT), Estimated Cost - $193,000.
Total to be transferred to Project/Grant Number
ST30180715, $193,000.
Requestor
Public Works Department
Drafter
Infrastructure Services
JHI:dle
6/25/01
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