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RESOLUTION NO.
A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND, CALIFORNIA,
APPROVING THE LOCAL ROADWAY SAFETY PLAN
WHEREAS, the Highway Safety Improvement Program serves as a vital source of funds for the City to implement safety measures to red uce traffic fataliti es and serious injuries on local streets; and
WHEREAS, the California Department of Transpor tation has established the criteria that in order to remain eligible for future Highway Sa fety Improvement P rogram funds, local cities and counties must develop a Local Roadway Safety Plan; and
WHEREAS, the City of Richmond requested, and was granted, state funds to dev elop the City’s Local Roadway Sa fety Plan; and
WHEREAS, City staff worked with a traffic engineering consultant who conducted a safety analysis, investigating collision records from 2015-2019 to describe historic collision trends and identify high -risk locations, and developed collision trends, a high injury network, collision profiles, a countermeasure toolbox, and four priority project locations; and
WHEREAS, the plan was developed with a stakeholder group that included representatives from City Council as well as staff from Community Dev elopment, Fire, Police, and Public Works Departments; and
WHEREAS, City staff and consultan ts engaged the public via both online and in -person community workshops, included plan outreach in the Travel Safe Richmond website, and made presentations to the Richmond Neighborhood Coordinating Council as well as neighborhood councils; and
WHEREAS, the project team developed the vision statement “traffic safety impacts the health and comfort of all those who live and travel in the City of Richmond and the implementation o f this plan is a step towards making the transportation system safer and more equitable for users of all transportation modes”; and
WHEREAS, the Local Roadway Sa fety Plan (Attachment 1 ) will serve as a framework for the City to identify, analyze, and prioriti ze safety improvements on l ocal streets and will render the City eligible for future feder al Highway Saf ety Improvement P rogram funds; and
WHEREAS, on June 7, 2022, City staff and consultants presented the Local Roadway Safety Plan to the City Council and received their feedback .
NOW, THEREF ORE, BE IT RESOL VED that the City Council of the City o f Richmond finds the above recitals are true and co rrect and have s erved as the basis for the findings and approvals set forth in this Resolution.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Council hereby approves the Local Roadway Safety Plan and authorizes the City Manager, or designee, to implement the plan.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this resolution take effect immediat ely upon its passage.
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I certify that the foregoing resolution was passed and adopted by the Council of the City of Richmond at a regular meeting thereof held on July 19, 2022, by the following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSTENTIONS:
ABSENT:
CLERK OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND
(SEAL)
Approved:
Mayor
Approved as to form:
City Attorney
State of California }
County of Contra Costa : ss.
City of Richmond }
I certify that the foregoing is a true copy of Resolution No. , finally passed and adopted by the City Council of the City of Richmond at a regular meeting held on July 19, 2022
Pamela Christian, Clerk of the City of Richmond
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CLERK’S CERTIFICATE
I, Pamela Christian, City Clerk of the City of Richmond, do hereby certify as follows:
The foregoing resolution is a full, true, and correct copy of Resolution No. duly adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council of said City duly and regularly held at the regular meeting place thereof on the 19th day of July 2022, of which meeting all of the members of said City Council had due notice and at which a majority thereof were present; and that at said meeting said resolution was adopted by the following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSTENTIONS:
ABSENT:
An agenda of said meeting was posted before said meeting at City Hall, 450 Civic Center Plaza in the City of Richmond, California, a location freely accessible to members of the public, and a brief description of said resolution appeared on said agenda.
I have carefully compared the foregoing with the original on file and of record in my office, and the foregoing is a full, true, and correct copy of the original resolution adopted at said meeting.
Said resolution has not been amended, modified or rescinded since the date of its adoption and the same is now in full force and effect.
Dated: , 2022.
City Clerk of the
City of Richmond
[SEAL]