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Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute a Cooperative Agreement with the Port of Long Beach and the Gateway Cities Council of Governments for a Truck-Impacted Intersection Project at the intersection of Santa Fe Avenue and Anaheim Street. (District 1)
DISCUSSION
As part of an ongoing program to improve goods movement throughout the Gateway Cities sub region, the Gateway Cities Council of Governments (COG) has initiated the Truck-Impacted Intersection Project. This project is intended to facilitate truck circulation at major intersections heavily impacted by trucks located in various agencies in the Gateway Cities area through a series of infrastructure and operational improvements.
The COG and City have identified the intersection of Santa Fe Avenue and Anaheim Street in the Harbor area of the City of Long Beach, as one of the truck impacted intersections that needs these improvements. Specifically, these improvements will include the reconstruction of the entire intersection and intersection approach legs with Portland cement concrete, the installation of traffic signal interconnect and the replacement of pavement striping and markings, as well as the traffic signal loop detection.
The Port of Long Beach has already executed the Cooperative Agreement. This agreement was reviewed by Deputy City Attorney Amy Burton on June 3, 2009.
This letter was reviewed by Deputy City Attorney Amy Burton on June 3, 2009 and Budget and Performance Management Bureau Manager David Wodynski on June 15, 2009.
TIMING CONSIDERATIONS
City Council action on this item is not time critical.
FISCAL IMPACT
The COG has secured funding from the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) for design, construction, construction engineering and inspection of the project. The final cost estimate for the project is $750,000 and under the terms of the agreement between COG and MTA, the project has been allocated 65 percent of this amount, up to a ma...
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