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Authorizing Public Works’ General Fund’s street maintenance, traffic, and traffic engineering accounting units to amend their 2023 fiscal budget, including a reallocation of spending by $2,964,230 to repair potholes citywide.
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WHEREAS, due to the extreme winter weather and related impact on city streets, there was a significant increase in the volume of potholes citywide in comparison to prior years, which necessitate urgent repair, and
WHEREAS, the City of St. Paul is working to facilitate a safer and more aesthetic commuter infrastructure for its citizens, creating both tangible and apparent benefits for the community, and
WHEREAS, the City of St. Paul has recognized the priority of pothole patching over brushing and seal coating in 2023, and will redirect the aforementioned funds from the latter to the former to subsidize this critical initiative, and
WHEREAS, the funding shift will be in the estimated amount of $2,964,230 and is expected to be sourced from the Brushing and Seal Coating accounting unit into the accounting units indicated further below, and
WHEREAS, the focus of the repair and maintenance in the amount of $2,576,517 and will include route-patching the streets in St. Paul and performing skim-paving on the most deteriorated residential and arterial roads, and
WHEREAS, additional resources of $14,204 are required in Traffic Engineering to continue non-project based engineering support; and
WHEREAS, additional resources of $33,212 are required in Traffic Signs and Markings to perform necessary maintenance and project related work; and
WHEREAS, additional resources of $45,297 are required in Traffic Signal Maintenance for safety related maintenance including preventive maintenance; and
WHEREAS, additional resources of $40,000 are required to continue with important vegetation management work along City right-of-way; and
WHEREAS, additional resources of $25,000 are required in Traffic Operations to continue graffiti removal on City owned traffic assets; and
WHEREAS, additional resources of $200,000 are required in Transportation Planning to continue important updates and improvements to the department’s Americans with Disabilities Act Transition Plan; and
WHEREAS, additional resources of $20,000 are required to address brick sidewalk deterioration along 7th Street and Kellogg Boulevard; and
WHEREAS, additional resources of $10,000 are required in Street Maintenance for additional litter containers in the downtown area; therefore now
ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER, consistent with the authority granted to the Mayor in Section 10.07.4 of the City Charter, and on the request of the Director of the Public Works Department to amend the 2023 budget in the Public Works Brushing and Seal Coating, Traffic, Traffic Engineering, and Summer Street Maintenance accounting units, the Office of Financial Services is authorized to amend said budget in the manner as specified in the attached financial analysis.