City Council
MEETING DATE: 3/25/2015
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Purchase of Emergency Vehicle Preemption (EVP) Replacement Equipment and Repair Services
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FROM:
Pat Milos, Community Development Director
RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
Staff recommends that the City Council authorize staff to approve the repair of 14 traffic signal EVP systems including the purchase of replacement equipment, in an amount not to exceed $25,000.
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BACKGROUND:
The majority of the City's traffic signals are equipped with Emergency Vehicle Preemption systems integrated into the traffic signal phasing program. The EVP system operates when a signal emitted from an Emergency Vehicle is received by a small optical device located on the traffic signal mast arm. Once the signal is received the traffic signal phasing is interrupted and provides the Emergency Responders a green light while other traffic is given a red light, thus allowing the first responders to navigate the intersection congestion safely.
DISCUSSION:
In December of 2014, Siemens Industry Inc. (the City's contract Traffic Signal Maintenance Provider) conducted an EVP test of all the signalized intersections within the City. Of the systems tested with existing EVP systems, 14 failed for various reasons including defective program cards that were identified as inoperable and needing replacement.
Siemens provided a proposal to replace the defective EVP systems cards and provide the services to repair programming and other traffic signal EVP signal faults to make the systems fully operational. Staff is recommending that the City Council authorize the purchase of equipment and the system repair in an amount not to exceed $25,000 for the repairs to the traffic signal EVP systems.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The total project cost including the purchase of five (5) EVP cards, is not to exceed $25,000. These costs will be funded from the Traffic Signalization Fund 322.
ATTACHMENTS:
1. Siemens EVP t...
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