A bill for an ordinance approving and providing for the execution of a proposed Intergovernmental Agreement between the City and County of Denver and the State of Colorado, Department of Transportation, concerning the "Traffic Improvement Program – Denver TIP 2014 Signals" project and the funding therefor. (INFRASTRUCTURE & CULTURE) Approves a $1.344 million Intergovernmental Agreement with the Colorado Department of Transportation to fund the 2014 Traffic Improvement Program for citywide signal system improvement and appropriates and establishes the capital grant fund for the program. The last regularly scheduled Council meeting within the 30-day review period is on 10-27-14. The Committee approved filing this bill by consent on 9-25-14.
Thank you. You bet. Thank you. Councilwoman Ortega, are there any other questions on 692 scene? And remember that activity up to next one 712 but called out by councilmembers Ortega and shepherd and I just I'll start with Ortega did you want to call this out or do Councilwoman Shepherd did you want to call it out or did you have a question? Questions. Question. Councilwoman Taylor? GRENELL. My question is for someone from Public Works. Your final Q. So this bill deals with traffic signals. And what I'm wondering is if it involves removing any traffic signals from locations, because I know in a number of our neighborhoods where we have had lights, they've been removed and replaced with stop signs. So is this just for new lights or is it also for removing traffic signal lights in some areas? Okay. I'm Michael Pennacchio with Denver Public Works Transportation. This particular grant is for upgrading existing traffic signals, so it's going to upgrade the communications and the backup battery power to the existing traffic signals. Okay. All right. Thank you. Thanks. Thank you. Councilman Ortega, Councilwoman Shepherd. So to go a little bit further with that, I am wondering, does it include any kind of upgrades that might have like pedestrian countdown signals associated with them? This again, this grant is more for aimed at communications and battery backup. So most of the equipment that we'll be replacing isn't seen by the general public. It's it's the way that the signal is going to operates, the way that we maintain and operate in. You mean how the brain, like the central brain communicates to these? Yeah, it's the computer that controls it. Okay. And then how how are the. So are you saying that that the brain is getting updated or the individual signals the brain is being updated or the individual signals? It's it's the way that it communicates to our central system. The individual ones. So how are those chosen? Well, how do you choose which ones to upgrade? Yeah, we have a well, we have the list of all of them that we take to. This is a grant that we apply for. And we received four years worth of grant money to upgrade regionally significant signals. So typically we'll see these programs along like Federal Boulevard along shared in a lot of state facilities, ones that reach outside of the extent of Denver. Okay. All right. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman Shephard. Any other questions on 712? All right. And thank you, Mr. Flynn. Okay. And that's 1786 called out by Councilman Monteiro. What would you like for us to do with this? Thank you, Mr. President. I would like to call it out for a vote for the purposes of abstaining.