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CITY OF SOUTH BEND I OFFICE OF THE CLERK management system so that they can talk to each other. It is a very antiquated system as it still runs on DOS, I believe. It needs some investment. This is the beginning of walking down that path. This will help us begin to get some technical assistance with a professional traffic engineer that will help us look at signal timings not just for vehicles but for pedestrians as well. This is that Local Road and Bridge Grant which is Fund #265, so this is where we anticipate receiving $600,000 from the State and partnering with our $600,000 match. Our focus this year will be on City-wide paving. This past year we did the Community Crossings grant and we used that to do work around Edison and Ironwood. So we are doing intersection improvements. Edison and Ironwood was one (1) of the oldest intersections and signal systems in South Bend, so, it needed that upgrade. That investment is highly focused on the intersection as well as doing the paving all the way to the Corby Ironwood Rockne intersection. Then we did some paving from SR-23 and some concrete replacement. We spent almost$1.5 million on that project. She continued, We anticipate spending $1.2 million out of Major Moves for the Corby Ironwood Rockne intersection improvements. This project is an LPA Project so that represents our cost share in this project. Again, it is one (1) of our oldest intersections as well. This will help improve that intersection by creating a better level of service. That will happen in 2019. We deal with a variety of elements in working with other teams and departments. We are heavily involved with VPA. There is certainly a need for that added Project Inspector. There is around $30 million in construction related work. On average, if you were to consider how much the cost is to hire a professional inspector,it is roughly eight to twelve percent(8% - 12%), so, if you said ten percent (10%) of$30 million, that is a $3 million investment just there. I feel that number would be less with another inspector. She went on, We also do a lot of work with DCI. Any of their TIF-related projects where they are partnering with developments and providing TIF dollars,we are involved in managing all of those engineering related projects. There are a lot of projects and a lot of dollars. Millions of dollars that are just related to the TIF. The West Side Quiet Zone is anticipated to have $120,000 worth of projects that primarily focus on the Norfolk Southern Corridor. This work in 2019 will be focused on the Canadian National and the NICTD. There are $350,000 in planned improvements for that. All those improvements are pavement markings, signal warning signs or mountable medians. That money will spent to help us begin the designation of the West Side Quiet Zone. I mentioned that last ye we budgeted$100,000 for neighborhood traffic calming. We are requesting$250,000 this year. We had a very successful project this year with the demonstration at Hudson and Riverside. We are planning to make small modifications to that this fall. It will then be taken out for the fall and winter plow seasons but then we will be working on a design for, hopefully, a permanent installation in 2019. We did some speed humps on College and Sunnymeade. We have gotten feedback on those designs and we look to improve that design. We are looking to do a project along Longfellow this ye . We are also working with residents in Walnut Grove to come up with some potential traffic calming units. We have a long list of need there so that $250,000 will help us take a bite out of that list. She continued, Light Up South Bend will produce eighty(80)lights. They will be in districts three (3) and six (6). Also some of the funds are going to fix some of the lighting along Riverside near Leaper Park. We have about twenty(20) lights there that will be worked on. We are working with residents to make sure we get the right temperature on those lights. We just quoted out a project for Angela Bridge. You should soon see some fixtures on the Angela Bridge. It already has conduit in place. There are those areas where it just is not that easy for the lighting situations.The electrical EXCELLENCE I ACCOUNTABILITY I INNOVATION I INCLUSION I EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building I227W.Jefferson BvldI South Bend,Indiana 46601 p574.235.92211f574.235.9173 TTD574.235.55671www.southbendin.gov 8