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Consider/Discuss/Act on a Resolution Authorizing the City Manager to Purchase Equipment from Texas Highway Products and Paradigm Traffic Systems for a Radio-Operated School Flashing Beacon System
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MEETING DATE: September 4, 2012
DEPARTMENT: Development Services/ Engineering
CONTACT: Gary Graham, P.E., P.T.O.E., Traffic Engineering Manager
Robyn Root, P.E., P.T.O.E., Traffic Engineer
RECOMMENDED CITY COUNCIL ACTION:
· Approval of the Resolution.
ITEM SUMMARY:
· This Resolution authorizes the City Manager to purchase equipment from the following vendors for equipment necessary for the installation of a radio-operated school flashing beacon system:
o Cabinet radios master radio from Texas Highway Products, for an amount not to exceed $78,000
o Antennae and miscellaneous equipment from Paradigm Traffic Systems, for an amount not to exceed $21,000
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
· The school districts in McKinney have 26 elementary schools, 6 middle schools and 3 high schools and each of these schools have reduced speed school zones.
· The reduced speed school zones include 130 flashing beacons to draw driver attention to the reduced speed in an active school zone.
· The flashing beacons are controlled by a clock that is housed in a cabinet located adjacent to the flashing beacons.
· The clocks in these controllers need to be adjusted to match the days and the times the school zones are active as well as adjusted periodically to ensure the time on the clock is accurate.
· The changes typically are required before the beginning of the school year and before the beginning of summer school for the campuses that have summer sessions. However, the school districts also make changes to their schedules during the school year thereby requiring adjustments to each of the affected controllers.
· A radio-operated school flashing beacon system would place a radio communication device in each cabinet that would communicate with the master system. Th...
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