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Public Works reviews pavement management and FY26 capital improvement plan; five‑year program totals $778 million
Summary
Staff presented the city’s pavement management program and an updated FY26 capital improvement plan (CIP). The FY26 CIP includes roughly $402 million of design and construction work for the year and totals about $778 million over five years; staff stressed preventive maintenance, life‑cycle cost analysis and coordination across projects.
The committee received an update April 14 on Lee's Summit’s pavement management program and the draft fiscal‑year 2026 capital improvement plan.
Pavement management overview: Project manager Finch Schmager summarized the four pavement programs: crack sealing, surface seal, mill‑and‑overlay and curb replacement. He explained surface seal is a thin coating that typically extends pavement life 7–10 years; crack sealing is applied earlier to prevent water infiltration; mill‑and‑overlay removes the top two inches to restore ride and cross slope. Last year’s work included roughly 40 lane miles of mill and overlay (about $4.5 million) and about 43.8…
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