i'm with the signs and marking divisions in the transportation department we're
responsible for maintaining a hundred and twenty thousand signs citywide
we install about four thousand new traffic signs every
year we are also responsible for maintaining all the lane lines and cross walks citywide and
there's about twenty two hundred center line miles of roadway
we had an existing contract for raised pavement markers and it expired
and so as a member of the texas co-op
i was able to utilize the existing contract it has the exact same specifications that i use
and save resources not have to bid out
another contract
in addition we also save twelve cents on each marker
we plan on purchasing about forty thousand markers this year