Amends the contract with Xerox State and Local Solutions to add $81,000, for a new total of $1,104,272, and extend it for 6 months, through 6-30-15, to continue the Automated Photo Red Light Program during the request for proposal process (CE-01061-06). (SAFETY & WELL-BEING) Amends the contract with Xerox State and Local Solutions to add $81,000, for a new total of $1,104,272, and extend it for 6 months, through 6-30-15, to continue the Automated Photo Red Light Program during the request for proposal process (CE-01061-06). The last regularly scheduled Council meeting within the 30-day review period is on 12-22-14.  The Committee approved filing this bill at its meeting on 11-25-14.
Certainly can. Councilwoman Candace, can you please have 950 placed on final consideration and do pass? Yes, Mr. President, I move that council bill 950 be placed upon final consideration and do pass. It has been moved and seconded. Comments from members of Council and Councilwoman Fox. Thank you, Mr. President. This is an ordinance which extends the contract for the photo red light program for six months. I am even thinking beyond that because my colleagues are asking to have them and photo red light intersections be spread more throughout the city. And I want you to think and when I say you, I'm thinking of the administration before it comes to us and says it's ready to do so. There are some key things I think need to be decided. First of all, has each intersection had a thorough engineering examination? Perhaps there are other issues creating safety hazards. Have yellow lights been extended as much as the traffic code allows? Have we installed highly visible countdown clocks to give drivers ample warning? Are the crosswalks freshly painted so they are easily visible by all? Have studies documented reduction and absence from these safety measures before we ever get around to installing red light cameras? I don't place faith in the numbers that I am given on the current photo red light locations because at the time that they were put in, we also requested that the yellow lights be extended. When you have multiple variables, you don't know what is causing an outcome. I believe that this work needs to be done before considering additional installations. And I also would like people to think about if the white line violation is about changing behavior, not revenue raising. Try issuing warnings instead, when the auditor is also raising questions about voter enforcement, we should listen. Our residents and any visitor to our fine city deserves our performing this due diligence. I will be voting no on the extension of the contract. Thank you. Councilwoman thoughts? Councilwoman in each. Thank you, Mr. President. I did not comment on this bill last week when many of my colleagues did an extensive discussion. And so I just wanted to raise a few similar calls to action for the process going forward. I will be supporting this bill. It's an extension of our existing system. So it doesn't include expansions, it doesn't include any new services or designs because it's simply just extending our current contract. But I do think that we have heard a lot of very good feedback, and I believe that this Council should be very engaged in the process by which we debate the what we want in the new contract and the new RFP. So just to highlight a few of the areas that I would also like to ask that we consider is on the speed side, we really should be measuring average speeds in the corridors where we use the speed cameras. I do believe the goal is changing behavior. The statistic of 80% of citations being first time and only citations and not having a repeat. Shows me that we're being effective in changing behavior. But I'd like us to measure that more intentionally in terms of average speeds, and the technology should exist for that. I also think that we have heard a lot of concerns about where the revenue is going. And in a situation like this, where we have such a safety oriented program, I don't see any reason why we can't trace perhaps where we use this revenue for things like pedestrian safety and infrastructure, since that's the number one folks we're trying to protect. Certainly folks are injured in car upon car accidents, but a car on a pedestrian or a car and bicyclist accident is is far more dangerous. And so red light violations in particular, those pedestrians are the first line of folks that I want to protect. And so if we can find a way to make sure that some of these revenues are being used for that kind of safety. So I do hope that the administration takes seriously the ideas from my colleague, as well as any others that this council has. It incorporates those. Before you bring us a new contract, I would like to see rounds of meetings and some real analysis of what types of approaches we can change in the new contract rather than simply a recycling of the current contract. So with those caveats for the next round, I'm happy to support this tonight again based on the fact that 80% of the folks who are cited change their behavior. And that's a pretty effective statistic. Thank you. Thank you. Councilwoman Canete, any other comments or questions on 950? Seen not manner secretary roll call votes no. Can each Montero I nevett i Ortega i rob i shepherd i. Susman I. Brooks, I. Brown, i. Mr. President. I am secretary. Please Thursday announced the results. Ten Eyes one nay. Ten Eyes one day 950 has been placed on final consideration and does pass. That was all the bills that were call out. We are now ready for the black vote. All of the bills for introduction are ordered published. Councilwoman, can each where you please put the resolutions on the floor for adoption in the block? Yes, Mr. President. It appears that our technology up there it comes. All right. I move that the final following resolutions be adopted 1070, 1082, 1083 and 1134. All series of 2014.