TO: Honorable Mayor & Members of the North Port Commission
FROM: Jonathan R. Lewis, ICMA-CM, City Manager
TITLE: Discussion and direction regarding the City of North Port paying to paint traffic control signals on US 41 between Salford Boulevard and Sumter Boulevard relating to the US 41 Widening Project in the amount of $27,500.
Recommended Action
Direct staff regarding whether the City will pay to paint traffic control signals on US 41 between Salford Boulevard and Sumter Boulevard.
Background Information
The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) will be widening U.S. 41 between Salford Boulevard and Sumter Boulevard. The bid will be awarded on April 20, 2017, construction begins July 20, 2017, and construction will be completed in Mid-2019. The construction plans indicate that the traffic signal poles and mast arm assemblies at the intersections of US 41 with Salford Boulevard, Cocoplum Village Shops driveway and Sumter Boulevard are being replaced with a galvanized metal finish (Attachment No. 1).
The traffic signal poles and mast arms that are currently City Center Green are located on US 41 at:
* Salford Boulevard
* Sumter Boulevard
* Tuscola Boulevard
* North Port Boulevard
* Pan American Boulevard
* Biscayne Drive
There are three pole/mast arm assemblies at the Cocoplum Plaza/Home Depot intersection which are painted bronze, and one is City Center Green.
The North Port Urban Design Standards Pattern Book requires all steel and aluminum in Activity Center 1, which extends along US 41 from southeast of the Salford Boulevard intersection to the Ortiz Boulevard/Talon Bay Boulevard intersection, to be colored City Center Green. Since adoption of the Urban Design Standards Pattern Book, new traffic signal pole and mast arm assemblies were fabricated and existing ones were painted to conform to this color scheme. In addition, the established maintenance schedule includes painting the traffic signal poles and mast arm assemblies every ...
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