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Agreement between City of Long Beach and Nestor Traffic Systems to continue to provide an automated red light camera program. (Citywide)
Discussion
On June 27, 2000, the City Council authorized the City Manager to execute an agreement between the City of Long Beach and Nestor Traffic Systems to provide an automated red light camera pilot program for a period of three years, which ended on August 9, 2004. This agreement provided red light cameras at 16 approaches.
The pilot program agreement had no up-front costs to the City. However, Nestor Traffic Systems was paid $97 per paid citation. Assembly Bill 1022 became law in September 2003 and requires that automated red light camera vendors be paid a flat monthly fee, which cannot be based on the number of citations issued or percentage of revenue generated.
A four-year accident study, on the first 12 approaches that were part of the pilot program, revealed an overall reduction in accidents of 35.3 percent. This reduction is believed to be a result of the automated red light cameras and traffic engineering improvements provided at the intersections. Due to budget constraints, however, and because the City will now be paying a flat fee for each approach, the number of monitored approaches will be reduced from 16 to IO. A request for proposals was solicited from automated red light camera program vendors in January 2004 and the Police Department received five proposals. A committee composed of members of the Police Department, Traffic Engineering, City Prosecutor, City Auditor and Long Beach Court Traffic Division reviewed the proposals. The committee recommended that Nestor Traffic Systems continue to serve as the City’s Automated Red Light Camera vendor.
This item was reviewed by Deputy City Attorney Richard Anthony on October 8, 2004 and Budget Management Officer David Wodynski on October 11,2004.
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