Agenda Report
Fullerton City Council
MEETING DATE: MAY 20, 2025
TO: CITY COUNCIL / SUCCESSOR AGENCY
SUBMITTED BY: STEPHEN BISE, P.E., T.E., PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR
PREPARED BY: MICHAEL PLOTNIK, P.E., T.E., CITY TRAFFIC ENGINEER
SUBJECT: COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT FOR TRAFFIC SIGNALS
AND SAFETY LIGHTING MAINTENANCE BETWEEN CITY
OF FULLERTON AND CITY OF ANAHEIM
SUMMARY
Cooperative Agreement for traffic signals and safety lighting maintenance between City of Fullerton and City of Anaheim.
PROPOSED MOTION
Approve Cooperative Agreement for Maintenance of Traffic Signals and Safety Lighting between the City of Fullerton and the City of at five shared intersections and authorize Director of Public Works to take actions necessary to implement and administer the Cooperative Agreement.
ALTERNATIVE OPTIONS
• Approve the Proposed Motion
• Other options brought by City Council.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends the Proposed Motion.
CITY MANAGER REMARKS
The City Manager recommends approval.
PRIORITY POLICY STATEMENT
This item matches the following Priority Policy Statement:
• Infrastructure and City Assets.
Cooperative Agreement for Traffic Signals and Safety Lighting Maintenance May 20, 2025 - Page 2
FISCAL IMPACT
Entering this Cooperative Agreement with City of Anaheim generates no additional fiscal impact to the City of Fullerton. The City would receive monthly payments from the City of Anaheim for their share (as shown in the following table) of traffic signal and safety lighting maintenance costs. The Traffic Signals Program budget in the General Fund (Fund 10) includes the City cost share.
BACKGROUND AND DISCUSSION
The City of Fullerton has traffic signals and safety lighting maintenance agreements with the City of Anaheim. The proposed agreement would share traffic signals and safety lighting maintenance costs . The following table lists the maintenance agreements between Fullerton and Anaheim for four shared intersections:
Intersection City of
Fullerton
City of
Anaheim
Lemon Street and Orangefair Avenue 50% 50%
Lemon Street and Orangethorpe Avenue 50% 50%
Orangethorpe Avenue and Raymond Avenue 50% 50%
Orangethorpe Avenue and State College Boulevard 75% 25% Fullerton will install a new traffic signal at Lemon Street and Liberty Avenue, located between the City of Fullerton and the City of Anaheim, as part of a private development.
Lemon Street is in Fullerton jurisdiction and Liberty Avenue, on the east side, is in Anaheim jurisdiction. The City of Fullerton w ould maintain and operate this new traffic signal. The developer pays the full cost to install the traffic signal at Lemon Street and Liberty Avenue. Anaheim w ould need to pay its fair share of maintenance cost s for this shared jurisdiction.
Fullerton would pay 75% and Anaheim 25% of the new shared intersection at Lemon Street and Liberty Avenue maintenance cost.
Proposed Intersection City of
Fullerton
City of
Anaheim
Lemon Street and Liberty Avenue 75% 25%
This revised Cooperative Agreement w ould add the new shared traffic signal to the existing list of shared intersections and supersede the previous agreements. The existing shared cost percentages would remain the same.
Attachments:
• Attachment 1 – Agreement For Maintenance of Traffic Signals and Safety Lighting
cc: City Manager Eric J. Levitt