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City Council <br />Meeting Minutes <br />September 4, 2018 <br />Page 12 of 14 <br />DISCUSSION/DIRECTION — QUIET ZONE UPDATE <br />Deputy City Manager Davis noted there is not a final report but wanted to update <br />Council on where things currently stand with quiet zones. The Louisville and Lafayette <br />Railroad Quiet Zone project will establish a quiet zone from Baseline Road in Lafayette <br />to Dillon Road in Louisville. To establish the quiet zone, improvements are required at <br />four of the five highway rail grade crossings including Baseline Road in the City of <br />Lafayette, South Boulder Road, Griffith Street, and Pine Street in Louisville. Additional <br />improvements are desired at Dillon Road to extend the quiet zone farther southeast <br />through Louisville. A grant from DRCOG will fund a portion of the design and <br />construction of all of the improvements except for Dillon Road. Dillon Road design and <br />construction costs will be funded with City of Louisville funds only. <br />Clearances are slowly being received to complete the project. All plans have been <br />finalized and approved by CDOT (environment, utility, right-of-way) and the design is <br />completed. Staff submitted all documents for Baseline, Griffith, Pine Street and have <br />gotten approval from BNSF and PUC. We have not submitted to the PUC for South <br />Boulder Road and Dillon Road so we do not have cost estimates for those projects. <br />Through the PUC process neighbors were notified, no comments were received for Pine <br />Street or Griffith Street. <br />The schedule allows construction to start as soon as BNSF signs off. The City will <br />complete median and curb work and we think BNSF can do their construction in early <br />2019. <br />Staff noted fencing has come up as an issue. For the South Street underpass we <br />committed to fencing and did get approval to remove some of that for offset with a small <br />reduction to 22 feet. BNSF has stated this fencing must be completed before they will <br />approve the remaining crossings. Staff would like Council input. <br />Financial impact: The CDOT Grant Agreement budgeted $1.56 M (82.79%) in federal <br />funds and requires $323,493 (17.21%) in local agency matching funds. The Lafayette <br />IGA assigns 25% of local agency matching fund costs to Lafayette and 75% to <br />Louisville. This IGA is for the design period only. Staff will expand the IGA to include <br />construction after the consultant develops construction cost estimates. Estimates have <br />gone up significantly, rough estimates on costs are around $2.7M and we have $2.2M <br />available, some of which is dedicated to FHU to manage the project, and costs are still <br />very vague. Staff thinks the City will be short in total at about $500,000. <br />Staff asked for input on fencing if we are not able to agree to modifications for the fence <br />offsets; would Council like to proceed and install per BNSF requests and how to <br />address any budget shortfall. <br />Public Comments <br />