Abreu asks DOT about Sammy's Law budget spending
Abreu asks how DOT is spending the $377,527 increase for Sammy's Law school zone implementation. DOT says funds go to inspection staff and sign shop production, including aluminum and reflective sheeting, and offers a tour of the sign shop.
The budget for SAMHSA's law implementation around school zones was increased by $377,527, with more in the out years to install signage and hire planners to assess signs'impacts on streets.
How much of this has the OT already spent, and can you give us a breakdown of where the funds have gone?
Yes, so this is, we'll get you a breakdown of what has been spent to date exactly, but it goes to two main things.
It goes to hiring staff who do, you can call it planning, we also call it inspections, where they just go and, like, this is the pole we need to put the sign on.
And then there's a crew in the sign shop that we buy the aluminum, we buy the retro-reflective sheeting material.
We would love to take you on a tour of the sign shop sometime if you want, but there's a whole process where we produce these signs.
With you, Mr.
Behan, absolutely.
Absolutely.
We have fabulous, dedicated staff who are so proud of the work that they do on signs.
It's really amazing.
I would actually love to do that.
That sounds great.
But we find the places for the signs, we produce the sign, then we have a crew that goes out in a truck and goes up in a bucket and installs the sign.
And so it's not a huge amount of money, but it's just all the steps along the way that get funded.
All right, I have questions on low-traffic neighborhoods, and then after this set of questions, I'll turn it over to my colleague for round two questioning.