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Application for Funding Assistance Florida Department of Law Enforcement Justice Assistance Grant - Direct General Project Information Project Title: EMERGENCY TRAFFIC SUPPORT UNIT TRAILER Project Sequence No: 0 Subgrant Recipient: City of Sunny Isles Beach Implementing Agency: Sunny Isles Beach Police Department Project Start Date: 2/1/2006 End Date: 7/31/2006 Problem Identification The City of Sunny Isles Beach is a small municipality located on the northeast coast of Miami- Dade County Florida. The City consists of residential areas, businesses and hotel/motels. The City of Sunny Isles Beach is small by geographic standards, but because of our beaches and hotels, the City of Sunny Isles Beach attracts thousands of visitors from surrounding inland cities as well as visitors from all over the world. The City of Sunny Isles Beach is located between the ever popular ?South Beach? (Miami Beach) and the City of Ft. Lauderdale Beach thus makihg us a traffic corridor for a heavy flow of north and southbound vehicular traffic. The city also entertains a large amount of pedestrian traffic. With only one major thoroughfare (Collins Avenue / SR A1A) to handle the north and southbound traffic, the possibilities of traffic congestion and serious traffic conditions are real. The City of Sunny Isles Beach is also one of the fastest developing and growing cities in South Florida. With the numerous ongoing construction projects, this only adds to the already existing traffic congestion and demands placed on our limited roadways. Although the City of Sunny Isles Beach Police Department has made every attempt to maintain a safe and effective vehicular traffic flow and minimize the threat of pedestrian involved accidents by placing clearly marked cross walks, signage and strict enforcement by our dedicated ?Traffic Unit?, the possibility still exists of serious traffic situations and or conditions. With the close proximity of the multiple high-rise buildings and businesses to the main thoroughfare of our city (SR A 1 A), almost all critical incidents that occur will in some fashion effect the flow of traffic on our main thoroughfare such as building fires, traffic crashes, police or fire responses that require multiple units, etc. Therefore, it is imperative that this agency have the ability to close or re-direct traffic in a timely fashion. To re-direct or stop the regular flow of traffic in an emergency situation requires access to a lot of equipment (Le.; Traffic Cones, Barricades, Flares and in some cases, portable lighting). Unfortunately, the limited space available in a normal police vehicle is limited and not able to carry an adequate supply of the necessary equipment. This is the purpose of the Sunny Isles Beach Police Department establishing an ?EMERGENCY TRAFFIC SUPPORT UN IT? that will be equipped with the necessary equipment to conduct traffic check points, portable command posts, secure serious traffic crash scenes, stop or redirect major roadways, etc. Application Ref # Contract 2006-JAGD-140 -JAGD-DADE- - - Section #2 Page 1 of 2