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San Bernardino council reviews data-driven pavement management plan; PCI report due in August
Summary
City staff and a consultant presented a citywide pavement management program that will produce a Pavement Condition Index (PCI) report in August and actions to prioritize maintenance across hundreds of miles of streets.
City of San Bernardino staff and a consultant presented a multi-year pavement management plan to the City Council on April 25, outlining a data-driven approach to inventorying streets, prioritizing treatments and modeling long-term costs.
The presentation described a scoping effort that surveyed the city's street network with a high-resolution vehicle-mounted scanner and cameras, covering an inventory of pavement segments and producing a baseline index. Staff said automated data collection began April 3 and would finish around April 30; engineers will begin PCI analysis around June 25 and deliver a citywide PCI report on Aug. 29, 2025.
Why it matters: Council members were shown how earlier, reactive repairs compound costs over time and how a proactive program can reduce longer-term reconstruction expenses. The plan will give the city a prioritized list of treatments by functional class and condition so budget decisions can be tied to outcomes rather than to individual complaints alone.
Key points from the presentation: - Scope: staff and consultant said the effort will inventory the city's street assets and evaluate PCI for arterial and local streets. The consultant described the data collection vehicle as an instrumented platform producing millions of data points per second with 360-degree imagery to identify pavement distress, lane markings, signs and sidewalks. - Schedule: field data collection April 3—0 to April 30, 2025; PCI evaluation beginning June 25, 2025; data analysis through Aug. 29, 2025; final report and implementation plan to return to council in August. - Treatment scenarios: the consultant laid out multiple funding scenarios showing different treated-mileage outcomes (examples given: 225.6 miles treated with current funding; 241.2 miles to sustain a 71 PCI threshold; up to 293.6 miles if all streets were treated in an aggressive scenario). - Cost comparisons: presenters estimated that a —marginal— repair approach can avoid far costlier reconstruction later. The consultant provided example cost ranges given pavement condition: repairs for —mediocre— pavement were shown in the presentation at roughly $4—0—0$6 per square foot and full reconstruction for —very poor— pavement at $8—0—0$12 per square foot (presentation figures).
Council questions focused on procurement and frequency: members asked whether the city would perform this inventory in-house or under contract and how often updates should occur. Staff noted past contracts for similar services and that typical practice is to update PCI data every 3— years, with some agencies updating as frequently as every year for high-priority corridors. Councilmember questions also noted a prior contract award in 2024 for related services and asked whether the city should pursue a multi-year contract or do single studies per budget year.
Next steps: staff said the August report will return with a street-by-street implementation plan and funding scenarios for the council to consider in the fiscal-year budget process. The consultant's data-collection vehicle remained on site during the meeting for public viewing.
