HomeMy WebLinkAbout04/20/92CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION
April 20, 1992
5:30 p.m.
Large Conference Room
Roll Call: Mayor Manning, Angel, Buck, Brown, Budak, Dell, Fox and
Wright.
The Agenda, as proposed, was approved.
Don Temeyer, Planning and Development Director, stated that the
Pavement Management System has been a team effort involving various
members of the Planning and Development Division, including Bill
Ratekin and Kathy Wittmayer.
All streets have been evaluated and their condition rated. The
rating categories include excellent, good, fair, poor, very poor
and failed. This condition report will be re -inventoried every
three years. The overall condition rating (OCN) can be
extrapolated into separate reports including the overall condition
rating for classes of streets, geographical areas of the community,
and others. The ratings show that of the 322 miles of improved
streets in the community, approximately 40 miles are considered to
be poor, very poor or failed. The purpose of the system is to put
street repair dollars on streets where the best investment will be
made. In most cases, the staff philosophy has been to put the
local option sales tax dollars in streets with the "fair" rating
since once streets are beyond this category, they become very
expensive to repair or maintain. Streets of lesser condition must
still be addressed in some manner. The staff emphasized the need
to utilize available dollars most efficiently which the Pavement
Management System is designed to do.
Condition of streets within the various wards are available to
council members, upon request. The affect of the interstate
substitution program on the city's arterial streets was noted with
very few in the poor or less category. Without the federal
dollars, the city could be spending most of its local option sales
tax on collector and arterial streets rather than on residential.
Local option sales tax received to date, along with anticipated
receipts for the 1992 construction year are estimated at
$6,828,294.90. This revenue, together with general obligation
bonds in the amount of $1.5 million for a total of $8,328,294.90
will be utilized for the city's overall street improvement program
this year. Each city contract utilizing these funds was itemized
including the streets that will be repaired or reconstructed. It
was noted that limited funding is utilized for administration
($45,000 will be used for the design phase for the reconstruction
of Falls Avenue and University Avenue to Stephen Avenue, and
$177,000 for design and inspection of this year's local option and
general obligation bond streets). Depending on bid prices for
several projects that will soon be opened, total street
expenditures are anticipated to be $8,159,970.30 during the 1992
construction year.
Mr. Temeyer noted that the staff will soon be bringing streets for
inclusion in next year's program to the Council for review.
No official action was taken. With no further business before the
Council, the meeting was adjourned at 6:30 p.m.
Larry P. Burger
City Clerk/Auditor