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SEP 0-4 19W DESCRIPTION & CONDITIONS: On June 27, 1989, the Board of County Commissioners approved a Joint Participation Agreement with the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT). The agreement was actually a grant award in the amount of $25,000.00, allowing the County to purchase a computer and a plotter for the planning division, and telemetry site hardware equipment for the public works department. It is anticipated that this equipment will further the objective to aid in the examination of traffic operations, and other transportation system management strategies to improve traffic flow and decrease congestion on the State Highway System. Since that time, the planning division has purchased the above referenced computer hardware and plotter equipment; however, the public works department has not yet purchased the telemetry equipment. Based on their determination that it would be more efficient to eliminate the purchase of telemetry site hardware, and substitute the purchase of portable automatic vehicle classifiers and peripheral equipment, the Public Works staff has requested an amendment to the joint participation agreement. This amendment would transfer unused funds originally allocated for purchase of the computer and plotter to purchase•of traffic count equipment. Besides the funding change,' this amendment will also change the type of count - equipment from telemetry machines to automatic vehicle classifiers and peripheral equipment. To facilitate this change, staff sent FDOT a request to change the scope of services to revise the grant's line item funding amounts and to allow the purchase of portable automatic vehicle classifiers and peripheral equipment. In accordance with this request, FDOT has incorporated the requested revisions into an amended agreement, and has submitted the supplemental joint participation agreement to be executed by the Board (copy attached). ALTERNATIVES AND ANALYSIS: Staff has determined that the overall effect of the request will be more in keeping with the original intent of improving Indian River County's ability to accomplish traffic circulation and transportation study activities. RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends that the Board authorize the chairman to execute the attached Supplemental Joint Participation Agreement. ON MOTION by Commissioner Scurlock, SECONDED by Commissioner Wheeler, the Board unanimously adopted Resolution 90-103, approving a change in the Indian River County/FDOT Joint Participation Agreement. SUPPLEMENTAL JOINT PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT IS ON FILE IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK TO THE BOARD 46