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City awards transportation master plan; vendor will map roads for data‑driven repairs
Summary
Spring City awarded a grant‑funded transportation master plan to Jones & DeMille Engineers, who will deploy camera‑based road‑condition mapping to produce a prioritized, score‑based plan for road repairs and an optional subscription service for ongoing updates.
Spring City awarded its Transportation Master Plan contract to Jones & DeMille Engineers using a recently secured grant. The project will create a data‑driven master plan that scores roads by condition to prioritize repairs and guide future spending.
City staff described two proposals: one from Sunrise (which helped prepare the grant application) and a technical mapping service offered by Jones & DeMille. Jones & DeMille demonstrated a camera‑based system that the council was told maps pavement irregularities, potholes, edge failures and other features as a truck drives the network. The system generates a consistent numerical score for each segment, removes subjectivity in prioritization and can produce a suite of reports and maps.
The grant award covers the plan’s development cost (the packet showed $65,200 in project funding). The Jones & DeMille delivery includes one year of service to view and update the mapped network; a continuing subscription to maintain the system was estimated in discussion at roughly $5,000 per year (estimate based on road miles and vendor discussion). Staff said the one‑time grant covers the master plan and initial mapping; the council authorized execution of the agreement and instructed staff to submit required grant paperwork by the grantor’s June 30 deadline.
Council members discussed whether to use the plan to inform immediate paving decisions or to delay certain projects until the plan’s prioritized ranking is complete. Staff said the plan could inform mechanisms such as “fee in lieu” frontage contributions for new development instead of trying to adopt a state‑style road impact fee, which consultants said would be difficult to justify for Spring City under current state law and road capacity conditions.
Jones & DeMille will begin contract work after the agreement is executed; staff said mapping can be done either by the vendor or by city public‑works staff trained to operate the system. The council voted to award the contract and authorized the mayor/administration to execute the agreement.
