More Pasadena Events Push Up City’s Traffic Management Costs

Pasadena’s DOT will seek the Council’s approval of an increase in the contract amount for a consultant to the Traffic Management Center for special events in the city, according to the City Council agenda.

From $72,138, the Department is proposing the amount be increased to $240,384, an increase of $168,246.

Transportation Director Frederick C. Dock said the increase in the amount allocated to Iteris, Inc., is necessary because Iteris will have to add personnel and increase its level of service.

“Events for which it is expected Iteris’ services will be needed include six UCLA football games, four soccer matches, three concerts, the Rose Bowl game, the Rose Parade, Post Parade float viewing, AmericaFest, Make Music Pasadena and the Pasadena half marathon,” Dock said in an Agenda Report for the City Council on Monday.

This contract would cover the four additional events in 2016, 18 events scheduled for 2017 and 17 events scheduled 2018. Dock said a 20 percent contingency has been added to the contract for unanticipated special events throughout the City that may require staffing.

The Transportation Department will also seek authorization for the Interim City Manager to extend the purchase order contract for up to two additional one-year periods.

Dock said the project is in support of a guiding principle in the city’s General Plan, which says “Pasadena will be promoted as a cultural, scientific, corporate, entertainment and educational center for the region.”

“The ability to monitor and adjust traffic signal operations during special events is a key component to promoting the cultural and entertainment facets of this goal,” Dock said.

Other items in the agenda for Monday’s City Council meeting include a request for approval of a contract between the City of Pasadena and the South Bay Workforce Investment Board Inc., in the amount of $160,000, to provide employment and training services to area welfare-to-work program services; a request to authorize the Interim City Manager to execute a five year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) for continued participation in the Proposition A Discretionary Incentive Grant Program for Sub-Regional Paratransit Services; and another proposal for a contract with Utility Data Contractors for GIS Enhancements and services to the city.

The Transportation Department, through the Finance Committee, is also seeking authority for the Interim City Manager to enter into a contract for the supply of four replacement 32-foot-long compressed natural gas buses for Pasadena Transit, in an amount not to exceed $1,746,308.

The meeting’s full agenda is online here.

The public portion of the meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. in Council Chambers at the Pasadena City Hall, 200 North Garfield Avenue.