Amador County – The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved to make the Amador County Transportation Commission the lead agency for a new program that allows emitters on emergency vehicles in order to alter and pass through traffic signals. Officially known as the Amador County Signal Preemption Retrofit Project, the state grant application was made as part of the broader ACTC Highway Safety Improvement Program. ACTC Executive Director Charles Field said his agency applied and was approved for a $465,000 grant last year, and authorization of the funds is expected during the 2011/2012 fiscal year. Approximately $51,000 in local matching funds are required. Field said ACTC’s application was one of 113 accepted out of 475 grants submitted. Specifically, the project will “modify the signalized intersections in Amador County to include emergency vehicle preemption systems and provide ‘emitters’ for participating emergency vehicles.” The infrastructure upgrades would apply to all intersections within the county and all vehicles at participating emergency response agencies. Amador County Undersheriff Jim Wegner gave an idea of the costs involved to upgrade and retrofit some vehicles in his department. Those costs include $71,000 “to equip hardracks on vehicles,” $33,000 for installation and $500 or less for permitting. Wegner said one of the specifications for this grant was a fallback on individual agencies to come up with a 10 percent match for each vehicle. “If our numbers our correct, and there are no more outside costs, we can do approximately 80 vehicles in the county,” said Wegner. Field said Wegner is proposing GPS technologies not considered in the original application, but these technologies are “superior, quicker to install and far cheaper.” He said “whoever you direct obviously has to work hand in hand with the Sheriff’s Department.” He said an additional $30,000 would be required to pay Dokken Engineering if ACTC were chosen as the lead agency because “ACTC has not been in the business of building things.” There would also been an additional $2,000 to $5000 in administration costs. On a side note, Wegner said vehicle maintenance is not cheap because “we crash into a lot of stuff.” Field said some of the costs will be split according to a shared signals agreement with Caltrans. After a short discussion, the board approved a motion to make ACTC the lead agency on a 5-0 vote. Story by Alex Lane This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Wednesday, 07 April 2010 18:00
Supes vote ACTC Lead Agency on signal retrofit Project
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Amador County – The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved to make the Amador County Transportation Commission the lead agency for a new program that allows emitters on emergency vehicles in order to alter and pass through traffic signals. Officially known as the Amador County Signal Preemption Retrofit Project, the state grant application was made as part of the broader ACTC Highway Safety Improvement Program. ACTC Executive Director Charles Field said his agency applied and was approved for a $465,000 grant last year, and authorization of the funds is expected during the 2011/2012 fiscal year. Approximately $51,000 in local matching funds are required. Field said ACTC’s application was one of 113 accepted out of 475 grants submitted. Specifically, the project will “modify the signalized intersections in Amador County to include emergency vehicle preemption systems and provide ‘emitters’ for participating emergency vehicles.” The infrastructure upgrades would apply to all intersections within the county and all vehicles at participating emergency response agencies. Amador County Undersheriff Jim Wegner gave an idea of the costs involved to upgrade and retrofit some vehicles in his department. Those costs include $71,000 “to equip hardracks on vehicles,” $33,000 for installation and $500 or less for permitting. Wegner said one of the specifications for this grant was a fallback on individual agencies to come up with a 10 percent match for each vehicle. “If our numbers our correct, and there are no more outside costs, we can do approximately 80 vehicles in the county,” said Wegner. Field said Wegner is proposing GPS technologies not considered in the original application, but these technologies are “superior, quicker to install and far cheaper.” He said “whoever you direct obviously has to work hand in hand with the Sheriff’s Department.” He said an additional $30,000 would be required to pay Dokken Engineering if ACTC were chosen as the lead agency because “ACTC has not been in the business of building things.” There would also been an additional $2,000 to $5000 in administration costs. On a side note, Wegner said vehicle maintenance is not cheap because “we crash into a lot of stuff.” Field said some of the costs will be split according to a shared signals agreement with Caltrans. After a short discussion, the board approved a motion to make ACTC the lead agency on a 5-0 vote. Story by Alex Lane This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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