19-Deliberate on improvements to Stillhouse Rd. and possible funding sources

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CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM BRIEFING SHEET Submittal Date: Originating Department: Presented By: Agenda Item No.: 09/28/09 Council Date: City Council Council Member Brown 19. 10/12/09 RECOMMENDED MOTION: Not an action item. POLICY ISSUE(S): Fiscal BACKGROUND: At the meeting of September 28, 2009 Council Member Brown requested this item on the agenda. The existing portion of Stillhouse Road in front of Cecil Everett Elementary School is approximately 30-feet wide. The roadway can be widened nine feet to create a center turn lane, making the road a collector level (39-feet) road for the approximately 815 feet from Stone Avenue to the creek just north of Levi Lane. Several sections of curb and gutter currently exist on the east side of Stillhouse Road so the widening would only be done on the west side of the existing road. The turn lane would start just past the creek and end at Lewis Lane (see accompanying drawing). A potential phase II to this project would be to widen the drainage structure near Sterling House Nursing home five feet to the west, widen the pavement to 39-feet, and extend the turn lane south to the Levi Lane intersection. While widening the road will improve traffic congestion some, the fundamental problem is that several schools have been built on one large NLISD campus but NLISD only built one street to serve all of the schools. Consideration should be given to discussing with NLISD having them construct another street to serve the large campus and help redistribute the traffic load. Without another street, congestion on Stillhouse Road and other areas around NLISD will continue to deteriorate as Paris Regional Medical Center relocates more operations to their north campus, commercial and residential development along Stillhouse continues to grow, and northbound traffic on US 271 increases. BOARD/COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: EXHIBITS: Council Member Agenda Item Request form; Aerial map; Widening plan; Drake cost estimate ACTION: BUDGET INFO: ❑ Financial Report ❑ Minute Order Expense $ ❑ Department Report ❑ Resolution Budgeted Amt. $ ❑ Presentation ❑ Ordinance y'I'D Actual $ ❑ Public Hearing ~ Other Acct. Name Acct. Number FISCAL NOTES: Excluding striping and signage, the estimated cost is $65,174. REVIEWED AND APPROVED BY: N Administration n City Clerk ❑ Communiry Development ❑ EMS/IT ❑ Finance ❑ Fire ❑ Municipal Court ❑ Legal ❑ Library ❑ Police N Eng./Public Wotks ❑ Utiliries City of Paris Revised 2/04/08 y 9-