Agenda Date: 08/19/2025
Subject:
Title
Resolution 81-2025: Authorizing an Intergovernmental Agreement with Arapahoe County regarding a financial contribution for the Littleton Boulevard Fiberoptic Installation Project
Body
From:
James L. Becklenberg, City Manager
Prepared by:
Brent Soderlin, Director of Public Works & Utilities
Brent Thompson, City Engineer
Aaron Heumann, Transportation Engineering Manager
Matthew Matuszewski, CIP Manager
Presentations:
N/A
PURPOSE:
To request approval of an Intergovernmental Agreement with Arapahoe County providing financial contribution for the Littleton Boulevard Fiberoptic Installation Project.
LONG-TERM OUTCOME(S) SERVED:
Safe Community; High-Quality Governance
DISCUSSION:
The City of Littleton's Public Works Department is responsible for the operations and maintenance of traffic signals within the city, including signal timing and signal phasing. Fiberoptic communications are necessary to securely and rapidly communicate between traffic control systems and the traffic signal control network. Traffic safety throughout the city, of which the traffic signal system and infrastructure play a key role, is critical as highlighted in the city's Transportation Master Plan. Traffic congestion and traffic signal operational efficiency are issues that routinely and adversely affect the traveling public and continue to rank high on topics of concern in community surveys. Fiberoptic networks also provide communication and connection between city facilities and for other operations.
The City of Littleton, in partnership with Arapahoe County, is striving to create a reliable, secure and high-speed fiber network which will improve the jurisdictions' safety, communications, and operations, including within the traffic signal system, between facilities, and for emergency services.
This proposed fiber communications upgrade project on Littleton Boulevard will establish new fiberoptic connections for the City of Littleton and A...
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