The City of Lake Wales is soliciting proposals from qualified contractors to implement and provide a school speed zone and red light enforcement camera program. The contractor will provide and install school speed zone enforcement camera equipment AND red light enforcement camera equipment on designated roads in school zones and at intersections within the City of Lake Wales. This program will be exclusively violator funded. The contractor will work with the city to evaluate, through traffic study(s), locations for deployment including those already identified by the City of Lake Wales, as well as the evaluation of future locations as requested. The purpose of this program is to significantly increase safety through awareness and enforcement of school zone speed limit and traffic signal compliance within the City of Lake Wales. In accordance with state law, the school speed zone system will monitor, detect and record speed violations within designated school zones, thereby increasing vehicle and/or pedestrian safety, while providing greater situational awareness and investigative capability. The red light enforcement system will monitor, detect and record red light signal violations within designated intersections, thereby increasing vehicle and/or pedestrian safety, while providing greater situational awareness and investigative capability. After initial locations for the program are deployed, additional locations may be determined by the City of Lake Wales during the term of the contract. The aforementioned system, including any preliminary and/or future traffic/location studies, certificate approvals, system training, camera equipment and installation, proper signage and installation, back-office processing of citations, and any maintenance of the system will be provided at no cost to the City of Lake Wales with revenue sharing of collections to the city. All equipment and materials for citation processing shall be obtained, installed, and maintained according to federal, state, and local laws, ordinances, and/or statutes. The contractor shall provide all hardware, software, installation, maintenance, operation, and processing of violations as specified herein.
