RECOMMENDATION: (Summary)
Adopt an ordinance approving and authorizing an Amendment to the Municipal Maintenance Agreement between the City and TxDOT for the State to reimburse the City for maintenance costs associated with highway underpasses within the City limits.
Amount and Source of Funding:
None
SPECIFIC EXPLANATION:
The City Attorney requests that City Council adopt an ordinance approving and authorizing a Second Amendment to the Municipal Maintenance Agreement (“Agreement”) between the City and TxDOT.
On January 3, 1969, the City and TxDOT entered into the Agreement for the State to assist the City with the maintenance, control, supervision, and regulation of the State highway routes within the City.
The Solid Waste Management Department has identified areas near or within highway underpasses in the City limits which accumulate litter and require frequent upkeep.
This Amendment provides that the State shall grant the City authority to enter certain highway underpasses to perform mowing and litter clean-up. In exchange, the State shall reimburse the City for up to three mowing cycles per year at a rate of $34.29 per acre and up to 26 litter clean-up cycles per year at a rate of $15.00 per acre.
The reimbursement will apply to the City’s mowing and litter clean-up in the following underpasses:
Main Street to Almeda Road (I-69)
Almeda Road (I-610 South)
Fannin Street (I-610 South)
Kirby Drive (I-610 South)
Buffalo Speedway (I-610 South)
South Main Street (I-610 South)
Stella Link Road (I-610 South)
Sims Bayou (I-45 South)
Crosstimbers Street/Airline Triangle (I-45 North)
Park Place (I-45 South)
South Post Oak Road (U.S. Route 90 Alternate)