Res 2016-161/approving an agreement with the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) providing for the City to maintain and operate traffic signals on state roadways with a reimbursement amount to the City of $149,232.96

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EXHIBIT 2 TRAFFIC SIGNAL MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION PROVISIONS The maintaining and operating city agrees to: 1. Unless specifically noted elsewhere in this agreement, the signal timing and operational phasing shall be the responsibility of the city. 2. Inspect the highway traffic signal system a minimum of once every 12 months and replace burned out lamps or damaged sockets as may be required. Police, citizen, or other reports of burned out lamps or other damage, which could jeopardize safety, shall be repaired or replaced as soon as possible after the report, depending on the nature of the report. Otherwise, appropriate steps shall be taken to protect the public. The reflector and lens should be cleaned each time a lamp is replaced. All replacement lamps shall equal the wattage and type of the existing lamp. 3. Keep signal poles, controller pedestals, and foundations in alignment. 4, Keep signal poles and controller cabinets tight on their foundation(s) or pedestal(s). 5. Keep traffic and pedestrian signal heads aligned and properly adjusted Repair back plates where needed. 6. Check the controllers, conflict monitors, detector units, relays, pedestrian push buttons, and detectors a minimum of once every 12 months to ascertain that they are functioning properly and make all necessary repairs and replacements. 7. Keep interior of controller cabinets in a neat and clean condition at all times. 8. Clean reflectors, lenses, and lamps a minimum of once every twelve months. 9. Repaint all corrosive susceptible highway traffic signal components exposed to weather with a non-lead based paint as needed in order to maintain a well kept appearance in the opinion of the Texas Department of Transportation's representative. Plastic signal heads and galvanized and aluminum components are excluded. 10. Group re-lamp LED and/or incandescent lamps of all highway traffic signal heads at the expiration of the average rated lamp life or replace the lamps on a burn out basis. 11. Repair or replace any and all equipment that malfunctions or is damaged. 12. Provide alternate traffic control during a period of failure or when the controller must be repaired. This may be accomplished through installation of a spare controller, placing the intersection on flash, manually operating the controller, or manually directing traffic through the use of proper authorities. In addition, barricades and warning signs shall be provided in accordance with the requirements of the latest edition of the Texas Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices. 13. Provide maintenance personnel trained in the maintenance of traffic signal equipment who will be available to respond to emergency calls from authorized parties 24 hours a day, Traffic-Traffic_TEA6b Page 1 of 2 Rev. 09/18/2006 Exhibit 2— Maintain & Operate Traffic Signal - Type R