Schertz expands street‑maintenance program and equipment as staffing and funding choices emerge
Summary
Council heard an update on an expanded street program: a public dashboard, new patch truck and lay‑down machine and a proposed outsourcing of bulky/brush pickup through the solid‑waste contract to redeploy staff to core pavement work.
City staff told the Feb. 7 strategic planning retreat that street maintenance is a high priority and that the city has recently added equipment and a public dashboard to track repairs and performance.
Staff reviewed recent equipment investments — a combined pothole/patch truck, a pad‑foot roller and other pavement equipment — and described the online dashboard that displays quarterly progress and project photos. Staff said the new equipment and dashboard are intended to increase visual transparency and allow performance‑based evaluation of the maintenance program.
To increase in‑house street capacity, staff proposed redeploying crew time now used for bulky/brush chipping and similar calls. Under the city’s pending solid‑waste procurement, contractors could assume bulky and brush pickup; staff said that would free public‑works crews to focus on pavement preservation.
Staff also discussed a more aggressive striping program and noted that insufficient routine maintenance accelerates the decline of pavement assets and increases long‑term costs. Council members asked staff to continue tracking and reporting metrics and to incorporate sidewalk‑gap identification into the CIP.
Ending: staff said the street program will be iterative, with further quarterly updates and an emphasis on measuring progress against visual and technical performance metrics.
