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CITY OF SOUTH BEND OFFICE OF THE CLERK to our new standards. It is also adjacent to Juday Creek and some wetlands. So, it could involve the purchase of wetland credits from the State of Indiana,in coordination with the project. We also have some other things there that would need to be relocated as well. This project is $22 million for the County. Typically,utility coordination happens in advance,but I believe we will be able to do this project with the County during their widening project. That station is an interesting one(1). It was built again, like I said, in the 1980s and it serves many County residents as it is in the County's right-of-way. But, in a State process like this,we don't have the right to be there without some sort of other agreement to exist in the right-of-way. She continued, Colfax Lift Station, so you've been seeing a lot of exciting work happening down here at the Colfax Bridge. We are about to see the completion of the first(1S)phase of the Cascade Development,but we anticipate the next phase will begin later this year or early next spring. And then of course, we anticipate the Commerce Center Development, as well. With this rapid expansion of the Cascade Development and the Commerce Center Development, we know our existing infrastructure was not designed originally to handle all of that potential waste water flow. So, this project will be funded by TIF and we'll be doing some upgrades to the existing lift station there in order to handle all of that new flow coming online. There are a couple projects I put on here that are in our vault.They are projects that may be potentially addressed this year,so,I thought I would mention them. Sheridan and Sample intersection, we've talked about this in the past. This project is an intersection improvement and,as a whole,is the result of a lot of development around that area.We are upgrading the traffic signal,increasing the intersection capacity,you've got some nearby industry with large truck traffic, so there are issues with some turning movements in that region. So, this would really help that. She went on, Sheridan Avenue is near the airport and is a future potential roadway project. It would be a complete streets approach to Sheridan Avenue, from Lincolnway West to Progress Drive. This project has been another one (1) that we know is an area of concern and it potentially could happen this year with maybe some TIF funding. Downtown cross-streets is similar to the Colfax Streetscape improvements which we completed last year. Of course, we are in Michigan Street right now, doing a version of our downtown improvements. This would be a continuation to our cross-streets efforts, aimed at Washington Street and Jefferson Boulevard. We are budgeting around $1.5 million, and again,that comes out of our TIF budget. School zone, safety, this project is something that we've been addressing in bits and pieces as the Engineering Department. Earlier this year, we felt it would be important to open the lines of communication with the South Bend Community School Corporation. We had a meeting and we discussed the concept of partnering together to look at the South Bend Community Schools and review traffic patterns around the schools,review their needs and try to understand what would work better around all of our schools. So, we did this as a summer intern project and I asked our interns to do what a consultant would do, and they assessed a few of our schools. We feel that this could be a project that we could really create a data base of understanding what the needs are around our schools. So, working with our schools, selecting a radius, and where are our issues with safe passage? Where do we need better sidewalks?Where do we need to improve ADA at which intersections? Where is there incomplete signage? What are those traffic patterns and where is there congestion? Is there confusing drop- off or pick-up?We worked together to help solve these problems. We just put together a document that we will be working with the School Corporation this year. She continued,That leads into school zone flashing beacons, which we are currently in the design of right now. The firm we have contracted is assessing thirty-nine (39) different locations in the EXCELLENCE ACCOUNTABILITY INNOVATION INCLUSION EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building 227W Jefferson Bvld South Bend.Indiana 46601 p 574.235.9221 f574.235.9173 TTD574.235.5567 www.southbendin.gov 8