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Memorandum
To: Honorable Mayor, City Council
Mark McNeill, City Administrator
From: Sgt. Chris Dellwo ~
Subject: Purchase of Speed Monitoring Trailer
Date: August 19, 2003
INTRODUCTION
The Shakopee Police Department is seeking council approval to purchase a speed-
monitoring trailer.
BACKGROUND
The Shakopee Police Department receives numerous complaints of speeding motor
vehicles, in multiple areas of the community, on an almost daily basis. In an effort to
educate the public and reduce the amount of vehicles traveling over the posted speed
limit, the Police Department would like to utilize a speed-monitoring trailer for traffic
complaints.
This device performs two main functions. It will display current speeds of vehicles that
are traveling past it and notify them when they are traveling over the speed limit by
flashing their speed in a different color. In addition, the trailer will compile statistics of
traffic flow such as the number of vehicles that traveled past the device, the speeds
traveled, and the time that they drove past. This data is then downloadable to a separate
computer and is then available for circulation. It does not, however, compile a list of
license plates or take pictures of vehicles that are traveling over the speed limit. If the
data indicates that a significant number of vehicles are traveling over the speed limit, an
officer can be assigned to perform traffic enforcement in that area at a time indicated by
the data.
Bids were taken from the two companies who construct speed-monitoring trailers on four
separate units with similar options and capabilities. They are as follows:
1. Kustom Signals, Smart Modell (demo), cost $10,162.
2. Kustom Signals, Smart Modell (new), cost $15,104.
3. RU2 Systems, RU2 Fast 1000 (new), cost $12,760.
4. RU2 Systems, RU2 Fast 950 (new), cost $11,691.25
The Shakopee Police Department would like to purchase the trailer that priced the lowest
from all of the bids, the Kustom Signals Smart Model 1 (demo) that is currently being
used by the Police Department as a demo from Kustom Signals, Inc.
BUDGET IMP ACT
The quoted price for the trailer is $10,162.00. Shakopee Crime Prevention, Inc will
donate $5000.00 toward the purchase price. The remainder, $5,162.00, will be paid for
out of the DWI Forfeiture Fund. Funds currently exist in the DWI Forfeiture Fund for this
expense. No monies will be taken from the general fund for this purchase.
ALTERNATIVES
1. Authorize staff to purchase the speed-monitoring trailer.
2. Do not authorize.
3. Table for further information from staff.
RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends alternative one.
ACTION REQUESTED
If Council concurs, they should by motion authorize the purchase of the speed monitoring
trailer from Kustom Signals, Inc. for the price of$10,162.00 and move its adoption.