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Council approves three-year Urban SDK contract for traffic monitoring after debate
Summary
After debate about data use and contract length, Olmsted Falls City Council voted 5–1 to adopt Resolution 16-2026 authorizing the mayor to sign a three-year agreement with Urban SDK for aggregated traffic monitoring software; Councilman Iafigliola cast the lone no vote.
Council un-tabled and adopted Resolution 16-2026 to authorize the mayor to enter a contract with Urban SDK for traffic monitoring and analysis software. Councilman Brett Iafigliola said he supported data collection but worried the city is committing to a three-year term without first seeing results, proposing a one-year pilot. "My thought is that we try for a year on the basis that we see how it goes and if there is useful information," Iafigliola said.
Police Chief Odis Rogers and other supporters countered that the three-year contract offered a cost discount and that the software gives useful aggregated, anonymized data that can direct patrols. Chief Rogers said the data sources are vehicle telematics (for example, OnStar and HondaLink) and reported that when the SDK data is compared with manual counts it shows about "95% to 98% accuracy." After discussion the resolution passed with a poll of 5 ayes and 1 nay (Iafigliola).
