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Green Bay OKs $70,000 budget amendment to buy infrastructure‑mapping software to speed street-condition ratings
Summary
The finance committee approved a budget amendment reallocating salary savings to purchase an infrastructure-mapping system (estimated $70,000) so staff can automate PASER street-condition ratings that currently require hundreds of staff hours.
The Green Bay Finance Committee on May 13 approved a budget amendment requested by the Department of Public Works to reallocate salary savings from unfilled positions to purchase a computerized infrastructure-mapping and pavement-evaluation system for about $70,000.
Public Works staff told the committee that every odd-numbered year the city must assign PASER (Pavement Surface Evaluation and Rating) ratings across the city’s roughly 456 lane miles, a task that takes about 560 staff hours. Staff said the new commercial software demonstrated earlier this year reduced that work to roughly 100 hours and will standardize ratings by removing human subjectivity.
"It's a very good investment. It's also gonna free up the staff for those 4 60 hours," a Public Works representative said. The department proposes to fund this purchase by reallocating previously budgeted salary and benefit savings from unfilled positions rather than request new operating dollars; the committee approved the reallocation and the purchase.
Staff noted the expectation that every other year the software would require funding (the current request covers the upcoming PASER cycle) and that department budgeting will need to reflect that recurring cost. The move is intended to free staff time for other backlog tasks and improve consistency in pavement-condition data used for maintenance planning.
The committee approved the amendment unanimously.
