I. RECOMMENDATION:
Council adoption of Resolution No. 4072 approving the Local Road Safety Plan.
II. BACKGROUND:
The Multijurisdictional Local Road Safety Plan (MLRSP) was initiated by FCOG and completed by their consultants Kittelson & Associates, Inc. (Kittelson) and Toole Design Group (TDG) to enable ten of the FCOG member agencies to prepare their first local road safety plans.
The ten participating local jurisdictions are:
• City of Clovis
• City of Coalinga
• City of Firebaugh
• Fresno County (Unincorporated)
• City of Huron
• City of Kerman
• City of Mendota
• City of Orange Cove
• City of San Joaquin
• City of Selma
The focus of the MLRSP’s development is to identify the following for each of the local jurisdictions:
• Crash patterns and trends
• Systemic engineering treatments to help reduce crash risk
• Education, enforcement, and/or emergency services strategies to help improve roadway safety
• High priority locations for projects with supporting design concepts
• Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) grant applications to facilitate securing funding for high priority safety projects.
III. DISCUSSION:
The MLRSP document presents an LRSP for each of the above local agencies, including the City of Coalinga. The LRSPs were informed by technical analysis as well as input from key stakeholders and input from the general public. The introductory chapter of the MLRSP describes the process used to develop the plans, the types of strategies identified for each local agency, and FCOG’s regional efforts to improve roadway safety. The next ten chapters of the MLRSP then presents each local jurisdiction’s LRSP. The City of Coalinga's LRSP is included in Chapter 8.
IV. ALTERNATIVES:
Do not adopt Resolution No. 4072 approving the Local Road Safety Plan. Staff does not recommend.
V. FISCAL IMPACT:
There is no direct fiscal impact of approval of this document. FCOG funded the preparation of the MLRSP. The Federal Highway Administration and Caltrans will now be requiring a municipality to have an approved LRSP in order to apply for funding through the Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) starting with the upcoming cycle. |