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Committee forwards $19M RAISE award and several safety and connectivity grants to full council
Summary
The committee voted to send multiple resolutions to council with favorable recommendations, including a $19 million US DOT RAISE award for the North Main Streetscape, a $48,000 SS4A planning grant, a $123,000 state broadband award for Upper Albany Avenue, school fire‑alarm modernization funding, acceptance of a donated autotheft vehicle, and a distracted driving enforcement grant; each item was moved and forwarded without recorded dissent.
The Quality of Life and Public Safety Committee voted to forward several administration resolutions to the full council with favorable recommendations.
Owen Hage of Development Services said the U.S. DOT RAISE grant award of $19 million will fund construction of North Main Street streetscape improvements from Nagata Street to Tower Avenue; the design extends toward the Windsor town line, but current construction funding covers up to Tower Avenue. "That amount is $19 million," Hage said. The committee moved and voted to send the resolution on to council with a favorable recommendation.
The committee also advanced a U.S. DOT Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) project (the presentation cited an award figure of $48,000) with a 20% city match to fund an action plan for Complete Streets, a sidewalk inventory, an automated enforcement study, and median islands on Tower Avenue to reduce passing and speeding.
Sherice Snipes described a state broadband award to install fiber and public Wi‑Fi in Upper Albany Avenue (routing described in presentation). The grant award discussed on the record was $123,000; the committee voted to forward the resolution to council with a favorable recommendation.
Other items forwarded included a school reserve allocation to modernize campus fire alarms and prepare for NFPA 72 and ADA compliance, acceptance of a donated vehicle from the National Insurance Crime Bureau for the autotheft unit (the department said donated cars are transferred for $1 and used as unmarked 'soft' cars), and approval to submit a distracted‑driving high‑visibility enforcement grant to CT DOT (the traffic division read the enforcement locations and requested authorization to use grant funds for April enforcement details).
Where amounts or details in the verbal record were unclear, committee members asked staff to provide the full grant documentation to the council packet; all items moved to council with favorable recommendations and no recorded nays or abstentions in the committee.
