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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1977-700-R y RESOLUTION NO. 700 A RESOLUTION EXPRESSING THE WILLINGNESS OF THE (W CITY OF TO COOPERATE WITH THE OFFICE OF THE COORDINATOR OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND OTHER AGENCIES IN THE PPE-PARATION OF A SIGNING STUDY AND PROGRAN FOR THE CITY OF Batesville, Arkansas WHEREAS, the City of Batesville, Arkansas desires to enter into a program for upgrading its "Stop" & "Yield" signs; and WHEREAS, the program will correct signing deficiencies along city streets not on any Federal-aid System; and WHEREAS, the installation of these signs are financed on 90 percent Federal and 10 percent Local funding; and WHEREAS, this program will provide a safer and smoother traffic flow; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY (W OF Batesville , ARKANSAS, THAT: SECTION I: The Mayor is hereby authorized to enter into an agreement with the Office of the Coordinator of Public Safety pertain- ing to the conduct.:of a signing study for the City of Batesville SECTION 2: The City of Batesville pledges its full support and cooperation to the Office of the Coordinator of Public Safety and to all other agencies involved in the project. SECTION 3: The City of Batesville will participate, in accordance with its designated responsibility, in the implementation of the recommendations provided in the approved study. THIS RESOLUTION adopted this 27 day of September 19 77 , ATTEST: APPRO`IED: City Clerk Mayor AGREEMENT OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN The of The Office of the Coordinator of Public Safety In Cooperation With the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration And Arkansas Highway Department RELATIVE TO The establishment of a cooperative program for correcting signing deficiencies on streets and roads not on a Federal-aid system, phase II . WHEREAS, Section 405, Title 23, U.S. Code, provides funds which can be used to correct sign deficiencies on non-Federal-aid routes on a 90% Federal-10% Local matching basis; and WHEREAS, it is the desire of the of hereinafter called City, and the Office of the Coordinator of Public Safety to implement a project to up-grade the signing in the City to conform with the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) . IT IS HEREBY AGREED that the City and the Office of the Coordinator of Public Safety, in cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration and the Arkansas Highway Department, will participate in a cooperative program for implementation of a signing project; and HEREBY , accept the responsibilities and assigned duties as related in the following paragraph: THE CITY WILL: 1. Adopt any necessary ordinance or ordinances required for the implementation of the project. 2. Obligate by appropriate means and provide satisfactory- surety atisfactorysurety by a certified check for 10% of the project cost. a 3. Review plans and comment on locations and type of warning device to be used. 4. Agrees to maintain all signs installed by this project with replacements to be of comparable quality of material and workmanship as the original program installation. 5. Hereby attest that the employment policies and practices with regard to its employees , any part of whose compensation is reimbursed from Federal funds, will be. without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin. THE OFFICE OF THE COORDINATOR OF PUBLIC SAFETY WILL: 1. Be responsible for the necessary submissions to the Federal Highway Administration. 2. Provide Traffic Engineering assistance to the City upon request for implementation of proposed and future projects through Section 405, Title 23, U. S. Code. 3. Develop the necessary plans , specifications and award con- tracts and supervise construction of all projects accomplished as a result of this agreement. 4. Be responsible for insuring that Appendix A of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act is physically incorporated within each contract for projects constructed under this program. IT IS FURTHER AGREED that should the City fail to fulfill its re- sponsibilities and assigned duties as related in this agreement, such failure will disqualify the City from the future Federal-aid participation on projects for which the City has maintenance responsibilities . IT IS UNDERSTOOD that the implementation of this agreement is subject to the availability of Federal-aid funds. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties thereto have executed this �r Agreement this day of 19 THE OFFICE OF THE COORDINATOR OF PUBLIC SAFETY Coordinator of Public Safety Attest City of Mayor Witness BEFORE THE CITY COUNCIL OF BATESVILLE, ARKANSAS (W . RESOLUTION WHEREAS, the Batesville City Council met today, 14 October 1977, at 4: 30 P.M. in special session and for cause removed Mr. Earl Hodges as a Commissioner from the Civil Service Commission by unanimous vote. Adopted this 14th day of October, 1977 . ATTEST: r- (;LEfK