HomeMy WebLinkAboutMemo - Mail Packet - 06/18/2024 - Memorandum from Jerrod Kinsman re: May 28, 2024 Work Session Summary: Traffic Safety Initiative
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MEMORANDUM
Date: June 13, 2024
To: Mayor and City Councilmembers
Through: Kelly DiMartino, City Manager
Jeff Swoboda, Chief of Police
From: Jerrod Kinsman, Police Lieutenant, Special Operations Division
Subject: May 28, 2024 Work Session Summary: Traffic Safety Initiative
BOTTOM LINE
1. Given the costs and program approach, what is Council’s feedback on what level of
enforcement it would like to see staff pursue?
2. What next steps would Council like to see?
3. What feedback does Council have on timing of implementation and whether to move this
initiative forward quickly or consider resources as part of 2025-2026 budget process?
4. After covering the costs of the program, would Council like to see additional funds designated
for enforcement, education, and engineering?
BACKGROUND
Traffic speed is a concerning problem facing the City. Last year, the City experienced a record-
high number of fatal and injury collisions, many of which were associated with people driving
beyond posted speed limits.
In 2023, the State passed legislation to allow local governments to conduct unmanned speed
enforcement with AVIS (Automated Vehicle Identification System). With this change in State law,
the City of Fort Collins has the opportunity to impact traffic speed compliance through the
expanded use of automated speed enforcement to reduce the number of injury crashes and
traffic-related fatalities on our roadways.
As part of the City's current traffic enforcement program, six intersections are outfitted with red-
light cameras (two cameras per intersection) that detect red stop-light violations. Those twelve
red-light-camera approaches have the capability to also detect, validate, and generate speeding
violations where vehicle speed exceeds the posted limit of more than eleven miles per hour, if
those intersections are designated within a speed corridor. Additionally, this initiative adds the
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contracted use of two transportable units that can be placed temporarily in problematic locations
to address speed compliance between intersections.
This proposal is also to recommend funding full-time equivalents (FTEs) in Municipal Court, the
City Attorney’s Office and PDT. The expansion of the AVIS program and traffic safety related
FTEs would be funded through fines collected by AVIS, both red-light and speed cameras if this
request is adopted by Council.
Below are links to media related to this recommendation:
https://www.cpr.org/2023/06/06/polis-signs-bill-allowing-more-speed-cameras-across-colorado/
https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD004607.pub4/abstract
NEXT STEPS
Present changes to ordinances 1106 and 615 to council for first reading.
Present ordinance adopting speed corridors within the City.
Appropriate funding from RLCR funds for recommended FTEs.
CC: Carrie Daggett, City Attorney
Travis Storin, Chief Financial Officer
Dawn Downs, Managing Attorney
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