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Regular City Council Meeting

5.7.

09/10/2024:

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Resolution - Public Works Traffic Management: Consider a resolution authorizing the Mayor to execute Purchase Order 10027686, with Mobotrex, Inc., for the purchase of traffic signal components for various intersections under construction by the Texas Department of Transportation along 19th Street (SH114), and the intersection at Interstate 27 and Regis Street (FM2641).

Item Summary

As part of the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) intersection upgrades along 19th Street (SH 114) associated with current construction projects, the Traffic Management Department will furnish and install various traffic signal components to ensure that all traffic signal equipment within the City is consistent with other traffic signal components throughout the City. In addition, the Traffic Management Department recently installed signal equipment at the newly constructed intersection at I-27 and Regis Street (FM 2641) that was built by TxDOT.

Purchase Order 10027686 includes the following equipment:

• Ten (10) 332L Traffic Signal Cabinets and Components
• Ten (10) Multilink Battery Backup Systems
• Eleven (11) Opticom Emergency Preemption Systems

The purchase will be made through BuyBoard Contract 703-23. BuyBoard is a local Government Purchasing Cooperative created to increase the purchasing power of government entities and to simplify their purchasing by using a customized online purchasing system. Its purpose is to obtain the benefits and efficiencies that can accrue to members.

All costs associated with this purchase will be reimbursed to the City by TxDOT, in accordance with existing agreements between TxDOT and the City.

Fiscal Impact

Purchase Order 10027686, with Mobotrex, Inc., for $237,246 is funded in the following Capital Improvement Projects.

Capital Improvement Project 8695, FM 2641 Signals
Capital Improvement Project 8697, US62 & MLK Signals
Capital Improvement Project 8698, 19th Street/US62 Signals

Staff/Board Recommending

Erik Rejino, Assistant City Manager
L. Wood Franklin, P.E., Division Director of Public Works

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