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Interim public works director urges new asset‑management role to address deferred maintenance
Summary
Interim Public Works Director Barry Buchanan told the budget committee that Stayton faces large deferred‑maintenance needs across utilities and streets and proposed adding an infrastructure planning and asset management coordinator to prioritize work and pursue grants.
Interim Public Works Director Barry Buchanan told the Budget Committee the city faces substantial deferred maintenance across its water, wastewater, stormwater, parks and facilities systems and urged the committee to fund a dedicated asset management position to coordinate planning, prioritize projects and chase grant funding.
Buchanan said the city’s asset base is large and that much of it is in poor condition. "You have an asset base of about a billion dollars," he told the committee, and later said, "I am saying that you have about $250,000,000 worth of failed or poor condition assets in this city as it stands right now." He described the immediate consequence as both a planning and an implementation gap: existing master…
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