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<br /> Park, we've met with them and we've had meetings with them. We are looking at a variety of
<br /> temporary and permanent installations including circles, speed humps, and possibly some
<br /> chicanes. In the Northeast Neighborhood,we've done some considerable community engagement.
<br /> We have a pretty comprehensive plan there and we will continue working with them. On the Near
<br /> West side, again, we've done outreach and we have received concerns from them and suggestions
<br /> that will ultimately help us define and determine what measures need to be implemented.
<br /> Similarly,on Lincolnway West,the Rum Village Neighborhood and Miami and Ridgedale. Miami
<br /> and Ridgedale are interesting ones. Those are collector streets. So, as opposed to the others that
<br /> are all local streets, they require a little bit more of an innovative solution to speeding issues
<br /> because they get different types of traffic. Again, we are committed to ensuring that safety and
<br /> efficiency happens in neighborhoods and all City streets. That is why we propose $400,000 to be
<br /> used this year.
<br /> She continued, Light Up South Bend, we all know this is the annual partnering program thanks to
<br /> Karen and Tim. It is an initiative that started a few years ago now. So, we partner with I&M to do
<br /> various projects.We can also use these funds in various ways from the procurement of LED lights,
<br /> we do conversions, and we've done some other interesting and existing projects. The ones we just
<br /> completed were part of 2018 and we did the Angela Street lighting on the bridge. We did the
<br /> Riverside historic lamp posts as well. So, for those types of projects, we generally sit down each
<br /> year with Tim and Karen and listen to their needs. What we know from neighbors this year, we
<br /> are doing the Taylor Street lights. We will define those lights for 2020 as we get closer to 2020
<br /> and how we want to utilize that funding. We also use it to do our lamp post program. This is our
<br /> second(2nd) year of our solar lamp post program. We saw great success last year with eighty-eight
<br /> (88)residents taking part and we are on target. I think we are moving and approaching one hundred
<br /> (100) for this year. That will be the same budget amount of$200,000 from COIT this year.
<br /> She went on, Curbs and sidewalks,there is the annual Curb and Sidewalk Program that you are all
<br /> familiar with, the allocation to Council Members. That work is comprised of work done by our
<br /> internal curb and sidewalk crews as well as a portion which gets contracted out. So, this slide
<br /> represents $500,000 of funds that will be used for the contractor bid (referencing a slide in the
<br /> presentation). Again, this is our City-wide program that looks to improve all poor and very poor
<br /> sidewalks. That is the same as last year, $500,000 from Motor Vehicle Highway. Community
<br /> Crossings, this is the Community Crossing Grant. We've seen this now,this will be our third(3`d)
<br /> year of participation and advocation for funding from the State.This is,again,a matching program.
<br /> It is a fifty-fifty(50/50) match up to $1 million in a fiscal year. The State recently went to a two
<br /> (2)-part program. So, twice a year you apply for funds. In the first (1st) two (2) years of this
<br /> program, it was an annual program and you would apply one (1) time. Each year we got about
<br /> $600,000 in funding. So, this year, we budgeted around $600,000 as we assumed that might be
<br /> about what we get this year. Then they changed the rules and they are now doing a two (2) times
<br /> per year allotment. So, we applied for $600,000 and we got it, but we just applied for application
<br /> number two (2), and we have money budgeted in LRSA this year for additional paving, so, we are
<br /> going to try and double that money and get $800,000 of additional paving which, again, if we get
<br /> awarded by the State, it wouldn't be constructed actually until 2020. We are asking for$1 million
<br /> from LRSA in order to, again,do the same thing. Hopefully we will get$2 million worth of paving
<br /> in 2020.We are trying to maximize those dollars as much as possible.The best use for this program
<br /> is the simple mill and fill, one and a half(1 ''/2) inches of surface and go.
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