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Ordinance Appropriating $1,635,684 for the Purchase of 560 Advanced Security Technologies Mitigation Barriers and 7 Transport Trailers
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Department: City Manager Meeting Date: 9/22/2026 Contact Name: Thom Moton, Jr. Public Hearing: No Contact Phone: 910.341.7800 Advertising Date/Advertised By: Attachments: Attachment #1: Ordinance
PURPOSE:
The purpose of this ordinance is to make appropriations to the Streets and Sidewalks Capital Project Fund, Parking Facilities Fund, Special Tax District Fund, and the Public Improvements Capital Projects Fund to purchase 560 Advanced Security Technologies, LLC (AST) vehicle mitigation barriers and seven transport trailers.
BACKGROUND:
This is a companion item to the Resolution authorizing the City Manager to execute a contract with Advanced Security Technologies, LLC (AST) for the purchase of a vehicle mitigation barrier system. The City of Wilmington has hosted special events downtown, and the number and scale of those events have grown. Wilmington and its Central Business District (CBD) are becoming an increasingly popular special event hosting site for event organizers, which helps promote economic activity in the CBD. Events that draw people into the public right of way and roadways expose the public, event organizers, and city staff to risks. Those risks include motor vehicle operators driving intentionally or accidentally into unsuspecting people and possibly severely injuring people or worse.
City administration recognized those risks and determined that the traditional wooden sawhorse barriers were an inadequate means of traffic management and pedestrian safety. City staff have analyzed the risks associated with continued use of the sawhorses and believe the threat to the public’s safety can be reduced. Consequently, administration issued an administrative directive requiring all special events occurring in the public right of way must use approved vehicle mitigation barriers. Vehicle m...
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