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REUBIN O'D.ASKEW
GOVERNOR June 29, 1971
Mr. Granville Brown
Mayor
City Hall
North Orlando, Florida 32707
Dear Mayor Brown:
This will acknowledge and thank you for your letter of June 22, re-
questing additional information concerning the proposed TOPICS study in
the Seminole County urban areas and specifically inquiring as to the re-
quired resolution format and whether or not the Village of North Orlando
could concern itself with the study phase only.
The Federal Highway Administration will participate on a fifty/fifty
basis in both the study phase and improvement implementation phase of the
TOPICS program. However, they will not approve the study portion, which
is a joint effort between that federal agency and the Department, unless
the local governmental agency agrees to participate in a substantial por-
tion of the recommended improvements. Frequently this amountaonly to
maintaining the implemented improvement.
There is no exact formula for the necessary resolution. The document.
should state that the Village of North Orlando is interested in participa-
ting in the proposed TOPICS study in the Seminole County urban areas and
to the extent possible, work with the State in implementing a substantial
portion of the recommended improvements.
The Department of Transportation is very enthusiastic relative to the
TOPICS program and feel that all urban areas will greatly benefit, since
fifty percent of all moneys spent on improvements are federal funds, in-
cluding improvements on local streets.
Very truly yours,
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Dir"tor of Road Operations
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STATE OF FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATI®N
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REUBIN O'O.ASKEW
GOVERNOR May 19, 1971
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Mr. Greg N. Drummond
Board of County Commissioners
Seminole County Courthouse
Sanford, Florida , -Dear Mr. Drummond:
This is to offer Seminole County the opportunity to participate jointly
with the Florida Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Admin-
istration in a traffic operations program to improve the capacity and safety
of a major part of the highway and street systems serving your urban areas.
The cities of Sanford, Altamonte Springs, Casselberry, Longwood, North Orlan-
do and Ovieda are invited to be cosignees of a Memorandum of Agreement to be
established between the Florida Department of Transportation and Seminole
County that will initiate the proposed traffic study, identified as TOPICS.
The TOPICS program will be conducted in two phases. The first phase
will be a study to determine the overall traffic operation needs on a pre-
defined highway and street network for the area. This study phase will also
include a proposed plan of traffic operation improvements, cost estimates of
the improvement, and a priority program that could be accomplished within a
three to five year period.
The second phase of the TOPICS program, the implementing phase, will be
initiated by a second Memorandum of Agreement. It will define a local-state
federal traffic operations improvement program based on the recommendation of
the TOPICS study, including financial agreements.
The Florida Department of Transportation, using State-Federal matching
funds (50/50) , will finance the study phase of the TOPICS program. The par-
ticipating local governmental agencies will make available, without cost to
the state, all available data, useful for study purposes.
The costs of traffic operation improvements that are to be developed
under the TOPICS program will be financed as follows.
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