The Corporation of the City of Yonkers (the “City”) is soliciting sealed technical and cost proposals to establish a contract through competitive negotiation with a qualified contractor to provide, to the maximum extent allowed by law, all labor, materials, equipment, and services to design, implement, install, maintain and operate a turnkey School Bus Stop-Arm (“SBSA”) photo-violation monitoring system and provide support services to process citations (the “Program”).
On August 6, 2019, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signed legislation (S.4524B/A.4950B) (the “Statute”) authorizing the City of Yonkers and Yonkers Public Schools to adopt a local law to establish the Program imposing monetary liability on the owner of a vehicle for failure to comply with SBSA traffic-control indications.
On October 30, 2020, the Yonkers City Council adopted Local Law No. 5-2020 amending Chapter 109 of the Code of the City of Yonkers empowering the City of Yonkers to establish a Program imposing monetary liability for failure of a vehicle operator to stop for a school bus displaying a red visual signal and stop-arm with the goal of enhancing public safety through the enforcement of Program violations.
The City of Yonkers and the Yonkers City School District, acting by and through its Board of Education (the “BOE”) is interested in services including, but not limited to: provide and install relevant equipment, including school bus photo violation monitoring systems on a significant number of school buses; a plan to work with the school bus companies currently utilized by the Yonkers Public Schools (“YPS”) - (First Student, Inc., Royal Coach Lines, VP Buses, All County, Academy, Phillips, MAT Bus – 437 vehicles registered to complete 608 runs) to install the necessary equipment; routine and specific maintenance of equipment installed, including working with the aforementioned school transportation companies on an acceptable maintenance schedule; sufficient data storage of the images captured by the cameras for the relevant statutory period; straightforward transmission of relevant footage/pictures/data that depict a vehicle violating VTL §1174(a) to the City for processing; and back end processing of alleged liability for violations of VTL §1174(a).
