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TBD annual report shows miles paved, healthy pavement condition and funding choices ahead for Lacey
Summary
City staff presented the Transportation Benefit District 2024 annual report: roughly $3.9 million revenue in 2024, $2.5 million expenditures, $4.4 million year-end fund balance, and 77.48 lane miles improved since TBD inception. Council directed staff to bring the report forward for council action on the consent agenda.
Transportation staff presented the Transportation Benefit District (TBD) 2024 annual report to the Lacey City Council on Oct. 14, summarizing funding, pavement-management results and planned projects, and asking the council to schedule the report for final action.
Brian Petren, the city’s transportation engineer, told council 2024 TBD revenues were about $3,900,000, with total expenditures of about $2,500,000 and an ending fund balance of roughly $4,400,000. Petren said TBD funds have supported 77.48 lane miles of roadway improvement across the city and total TBD spending to date of $22,780,000.
Petren described an array of maintenance treatments—reconstruction, overlays, slurry, crack seal—plus striping, raised pavement markers, curb ramp upgrades and sidewalk panel repairs. He said the city has placed 94,000 tons of asphalt, 26.2 miles of striping and roughly 152,550 square yards of slurry while repairing more than 1,950 sidewalk panels and scheduling many more.
Using the pavement-management model StreetSaver, staff reported a current Pavement Condition Index (PCI) in the low‑to‑mid 80s; modeling showed that without TBD funding the PCI would decline to about 71 in ten years, while continuing TBD funding at current revenue keeps the PCI roughly level (a drop from 84.4 to about 83 under a baseline scenario). Petren said maintaining the current PCI would require roughly $4.6 million per year—about $1.1 million more than current TBD revenue—and showed the relative effect of different funding scenarios.
Projects completed in 2024 included Yelm Highway rehabilitation, a Pacific/Homan roundabout improvement (with stormwater and sidewalk components funded from other sources), a citywide crack-seal program, and several other overlays and reconstructions. Petren said some components (new sidewalks and stormwater tied to the Pacific/Homan work) could not be funded with TBD money and were paid from bike/ped or other funds.
Council discussed project prioritization and communication to the public, and several members emphasized that showing “jobs done” and results helps public support for renewing the TBD. Council directed staff to bring the certified annual report to the upcoming council meeting for final action and placed it on the consent agenda.
