City staff present facilities condition assessment, warn of multimillion-dollar deferred maintenance backlog

City facilities staff told the City Council on Aug. 26 that Littleton owns and manages dozens of buildings whose average age and accumulated deferred maintenance now require systematic planning and increased capital investment.

Julie Rotor, the city’s facilities manager, said the city insures roughly 38 structures and manages about 324,000 square feet of building space. Staff’s high-level condition assessment divided building systems into component lifecycles and produced a facilities-condition index that shows some key buildings in ‘‘poor’’ condition but none in immediate critical failure. Using end-of-life dates and replacement-cost estimates, staff presented a five-year deferred-maintenance projection: if the city did no additional work the backlog would grow from about $19 million this year to roughly $37 million by 2030.…