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FY 2016/2017 Pavement Management Program
Presenter
Ron McCuller, Public Works Director
Recommended Action
Approve
Analysis
Recognizing the demonstrated desire of citizens, the Public Works Department has largely dedicated the street sales tax proceeds to the residential streets requested by citizens. These are presented in another agenda item.
However, the Department has also recognized ongoing deterioration of the important arterial and collector streets in the City and has through its' consultant IMS, Inc.teamed with the Engineering firm of Freese & Nichols developed a pavement assessment program designed to maintain the City's arterial and collector streets in good condition with a average PCI (Pavement Condition Index) of at least 70. This program does not use sales tax but is rather budgeted in the Capital Improvements Budget, Street Capital projects fund.
It needs to be understood that in order to maintain the PCI rating goal it is necessary not only to improve streets currently rated as poor, but it is also necessary to include maintenance funds from this program as well as our in-house maintenance activities on streets currently in good condition to slow their deterioration to a poor condition. The program developed with a budgeted amount of $3,500,000 therefore addresses streets rated with a wide variety of conditions (PCI) and not all the poor streets will be improved in the early years, but some will move out and other move into that category.
The analysis shows a back log of about 4% of the lane miles of the arterial and collectors in poor condition. In order to maintain the goal of the arterials and collectors having a PCI rating of > 70, this level of back log will realistically remain at about that level as the streets that we have not been able to improve within the budgeted funds deteriorate as other are raised out of the poor category. However, all of the streets rated poor today should be improved and will likely...
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