Resolution No. 2020-9-1(R): To authorize the City of Plano to participate in and receive funding through the Texas Highway Traffic Safety Program for the Intersection Traffic Control Project, PIN 17560006409000, targeting intersections regulated by a signal light; authorizing the City Manager or his authorized designee to execute the grant agreement and any other documents necessary to effectuate the action taken; and providing an effective date. Adopted

In 2002, we applied to the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) for grant funds to place additional enforcement at several problem intersections where red light crashes were resulting in injuries and deaths.

We are requesting approval to accept the FY 20/21 grant of $162,336 for traffic enforcement, $32,471 of which will be the required City match ($129,865 in federal funds and $32,471 in local funds).  This grant is an 80/20 matching grant.

We are requesting the match in hard dollars for salaries and benefits in the amount of $32,471 be funded from the Traffic Safety Fund.

The grant will fund added speed and intersection enforcement at documented high crash locations throughout the City.

Traffic safety is one of our four Performance Measures.  If funding is not approved, the Police Department’s traffic enforcement activities will be adversely impacted and the State’s matching funds will be forfeited. 

The grant contract, if approved, provides an 80% STEP Grant reimbursement, in the estimated annual amount of $129,865 from TXDOT to reimburse police officer overtime expenditures, benefits, operating expenditures, and travel expenses related to enforcing traffic intersection laws during FY 2020-21.  The required City "match" of FY 2020-21 expenditures, at 20%, totals approximately $32,471, which will be included within the FY 2020-21 Traffic Safety Fund Budget.

Approval of this item will support the City's Strategic Plan Critical Success Factors of being an Excellent, Innovative, and Accountable City Government that supports Safe, Vibrant Neighborhoods.