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HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2003.05.29 - 27223MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #03108 BY: GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE, WILLIAM R. PATTERSON, CHAIRPERSON IN RE: COUNTY EXECUTIVE - FUNDING FOR TRAFFIC IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION TO CORRECT MICHIGAN STATE POLICE CRASH DATA FOR SAFETY CONSTRUCTION IN OAKLAND COUNTY TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen: WHEREAS the Traffic Improvement Association of Oakland County (TIA) has performed its traffic safety mission through the 'three E's' of traffic safety (engineering, education, and enforcement) for over thirty-five years to reduce human and economic losses caused by traffic crashes and congestion in Oakland County; and WHEREAS Oakland County, which has grown four-fold over the past thirty-five years, continues to record the lowest traffic fatality rate in Michigan and the United States at 0.73 fatalities per 100 million miles traveled (roughly half of the statewide average); and WHEREAS one of the major reasons of the low fatality rate is due to the processing, distribution, and analysis at more than 1,300 intersections and 2,500 road segments in Oakland County by TIA; and WHEREAS reports and related analyses are prepared by TIA and shared with all cities, villages and townships, Oakland County, the Road Commission of Oakland County, all law enforcement agencies, schools and businesses and other interested parties; and WHEREAS much of the genesis of the crash data used for the reports and related analyses is captured at the crash scene by police officers/Sheriff's deputies and submitted, by statute, to the Michigan State Police (MSP); and WHEREAS the MSP implemented a new computer capture system for the crash data (circa 2000) that has resulted in the denigration of the data's accuracy maintained for the 2000 calendar year and beyond, particularly as it relates to location; and WHEREAS many counties have requested the MSP correct this crash data, as well as several state departments who must submit this information in order to secure transportation-related grants for the State over the past several years, to no avail; and WHEREAS in order for the 2000 and 2001 calendar crash data to be accurate enough to rely upon for public safety decisions for road repair and construction, TIA incurred substantial funds (approximately $25,000) from its fund equity to correct the crash data; and WHEREAS TIA can no longer continue to fund the correction of the MSP crash data out of its fund equity at the same levels as noted above; and WHEREAS TIA is seeking a longer term solution (as the MSP is not addressing the crash data or computer system needs to rectify this situation) that would provide Oakland County, the Road Commission of Oakland County and the cities, villages and townships with timely, accurate information; and WHEREAS the solution includes the acquisition of equipment (approximately $50,000) and subsequent operating costs (approximately $40,000) for cleansing the data; and WHEREAS TIA has sought many avenues of funding support (grants, fees, use of TIA equity, etc.) and has found partial support for the • project including funding from the Road Commission of Oakland County (approximately $25,000) and SEMCOG (approximately $9,000); and WHEREAS the funding for this project - both in the short-term to resolve the 2002 crash data inaccuracies and beyond - is in the interests of the safety of the County's residents and those who travel in and out of the County; and NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Commissioners authorizes the administration to enter into a contract with TIA in an amount not to exceed $15,000 for the correction of the calendar year 2002 and beyond crash data. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the contractual language is subject to approval by the County's Corporation Counsel. Chairperson, on behalf of the General Government Committee, I move the adoption of the foregoing resolution. tawk P GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE General Government Committee Vote: Motion carried unanimously on a roll call vote with Webster absent. Resolution #03108 May 8, 2003 The Chairperson referred the resolution to the Finance Committee. There were no objections. FISCAL NOTE (M.R. #03108) May 29, 2003 BY: FINANCE COMMITTEE, CHUCK MOSS, CHAIRPERSON IN RE: COUNTY EXECUTIVE - FUNDING FOR TRAFFIC IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION TO CORRECT MICHIGAN STATE POLICE CRASH DATA FOR SAFETY CONSTRUCTION IN OAKLAND COUNTY TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen: Pursuant to Rule XII-C of this Board, the Finance Committee has reviewed the above reference resolution and finds: 1) For over thirty-five years the Traffic Improvement Association of Oakland County (TIA) has performed its traffic safety mission to reduce human and economic losses caused by traffic accidents and congestion. 2) Oakland County has recorded the lowest traffic fatality rate in Michigan and the United States, due to the processing, distribution, and analysis of data from 1,300 intersections and 2,500 road segments within Oakland County. 3) Due to the denigration of the data captured by the State of Michigan's new computer capture system, the TIA is seeking a long term solution which would provide Oakland County, the Road Commission of Oakland County and the cities, villages and townships with timely, accurate information. 4) A contract with TIA to provide crash data, is in the interest cf the safety of the County's residents and those who travel in and out of the County. 5) A Budget amendment for $15,000 is recommended to cover the cost of the contract, as shown below: General Fund Expenditures 90-290000-25000-2564 Contingency 90-230000-23000-9105 Traff.Imp.Assoc. 2003_ ($15,000) 15,000 $ - 0 - FINANCE COMMITTEE FINANCE COMMITTEE Motion carried unanimously on a roll call vote with Moffitt absent. G. William Caddell, County Clerk Resolution #03108 May 29, 2003 Moved by Suarez supported by Palmer the resolutions on the Consent Agenda, as amended, be adopted (with accompanying reports being accepted). AYES: Coleman, Coulter, Crawford, Douglas, Gregory, Hatchett, Knollenberg, KowaII, Law, Long, McMillin, Middleton, Moss, Palmer, Patterson, Potter, Rogers, Scott, Suarez, Webster, Zack, Bullard. (22) NAYS: None. (0) A sufficient majority having voted therefore, the resolutions on the Consent Agenda, as amended, were adopted (with accompanying reports being accepted). STATE OF MICHIGAN) COUNTY OF OAKLAND) I, G. William Caddell, Clerk of the County of Oakland, do hereby certify that the foregoing resolution is a true and accurate copy of a resolution adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners on May 29, 2003, with the original record thereof now remaining in my office. In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of theCounty of Oakland at Pontiac, Michigan this 29th day of May, 2003.