Council reviews StreetSaver pavement-management tool; staff to provide subscription cost
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Summary
City staff presented the StreetSaver pavement-management software and explained how the city uses a Pavement Condition Index to prioritize maintenance; council and public asked about traffic-count data and proactive monitoring. Staff said the system is cloud-based and will follow up with cost information.
Lemoore city staff presented StreetSaver, a pavement-management software that catalogs every street segment, scores pavement condition on a 0-to-100 Pavement Condition Index (PCI) and helps prioritize maintenance treatments.
The software presentation at the July 15 council meeting explained that the city breaks streets into sections and tracks condition to schedule cost-effective maintenance before reconstruction is required. Director Benavides described the tool’s dashboard and said it helps the city “catch it before it gets too deteriorated,” adding the system supports mapping, lists and analytics to identify treatments across the network.
The presentation matter-of-factly explained the PCI methodology and the city’s practice: maintain pavements with lower-cost treatments such as crack filling, slurry seal or microsurfacing to avoid expensive replacements. “0 to 100 is the scale. We try to catch it before it gets too low because…maintenance is much, much cheaper than replace it,” Director Benavides said.
Council members and members of the public pressed staff on how the software accounts for traffic changes. Council member Gornick asked whether traffic counts are included and whether the city adjusts for new traffic patterns such as after the Nineteenth Avenue overpass opened. Benavides said the PCI is calculated from several factors, and a traffic index is part of that calculation, but the city does not preemptively alter a section’s score solely because projected traffic will increase. Instead, he said the city monitors conditions and updates the software when field observations or increased patching and cracking indicate accelerated deterioration. “It's a continuous update throughout this,” Benavides said.
Benavides also told council the software is a cloud subscription; when asked about cost he said he did not recall the exact amount and would get that information to council later. A public commenter recommended the city use traffic-count devices to proactively detect streets experiencing increased loads so the city can prioritize them earlier than the software’s life-expectancy erosion would do automatically.
The presentation was provided as a study-session item; council did not take formal action at the meeting. Staff committed to provide follow-up details on subscription cost and any planned monitoring procedures.
Less-critical details: Benavides said the city catalog contains roughly 1,400 street sections (approximate), that the PCI incorporates inspection and traffic indices, and that maps and lists are available in the tool’s dashboard for planning maintenance cycles.
