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Mesquite council workshop focuses on roads: staff outlines 5-year pavement plan, council presses for more funding
Summary
Public works staff presented a pavement-condition assessment showing a citywide average PCI of 64 and proposed a multi-year, hybrid strategy to address very poor and poor streets. Council members pressed for higher recurring street investment and discussed tradeoffs with other priorities.
Director of Public Works Eric Galt presented the results of a citywide pavement assessment and a preliminary five‑year program, telling the City Council the city’s average network pavement condition index (PCI) is 64. Galt said the study identifies concentrated pockets of very poor and poor pavement — mostly older asphalt sections in the east and northeast — and recommended a mix of contractor reconstruction and more frequent in‑house asphalt repairs.
The report lays out funding scenarios: a very aggressive program that would bring the network to “very good to excellent” would cost roughly $231 million over five years, while a year‑to‑year backlog‑control approach narrows work to the worst streets. Galt warned the precise targets depend on how much the council is willing to commit annually and noted the Real Texas Roads bond has been carrying a large share of residential work in recent years. “Our average network PCI was 64,”…
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