TO:
Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
THROUGH:
Bruce Moe, City Manager
FROM:
Jeff Gibson, Interim Community Development Department Director]
Erik Zandvliet, T.E., City Traffic Engineer
SUBJECT:Title
Consider Recommendation by the Parking and Public Improvements Commission to Authorize a Grandview School Request for a Crossing Guard at Blanche Road and 27th Street and Appropriate $15,000 for Additional Crossing Guard Contract Services (Interim Community Development Director Gibson).
a) APPROVE
b) APPROPRIATE $15,000 FROM THE GENERAL FUND
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Recommended Action
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends that the City Council approve the recommendation by the Parking and Public Improvements Commission to authorize the Grandview School request for a crossing guard at Blanche Road and 27th Street and appropriate an additional $15,000 per year for crossing guard contract services.
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FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
An appropriation of $15,000 will be required per year from the General Fund should a new crossing guard be approved. However, an additional appropriation would not be required if a current crossing guard location is reassigned from another location to Blanche Road and 27th Street. That option is discussed below.
BACKGROUND:
The City currently provides 22 adult crossing guards at 21 locations throughout the City. Each crossing guard costs around $15,000 per year.
In May, 2019, the City received a request from Grandview Principal and Parent Teacher Association (PTA) for an adult crossing guard at the intersection of Blanche Road and 27th Street adjacent to Grandview Elementary School. The school staff assert that 27th Street is a suggested route to school and parents are concerned about crossing Blanche Road. They note that the school campus will be modernized with new buildings fronting Bell Avenue in the next few years, which will increase pedestrian traffic east of the school grounds.
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