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Kennewick council approves 2025 Transportation Benefit District project list, allocates $3 million program budget
Summary
Kennewick's council unanimously approved the Transportation Benefit District (TBD) 2025 project list, directing TBD revenues toward hot mix asphalt overlays, patching and pavement-rating work and authorizing a $3 million program budget for 2025.
The Kennewick City Council voted unanimously, 7-0, to approve the 2025 Transportation Benefit District project list, a package of pavement-preservation and patching projects staff recommended for the TBD's initial years of revenue.
Heath Malott, the city's Design Services Manager, told the council the TBD imposes a sales-and-use tax increase of 0.1 percentage point (0.001) within Kennewick city limits and that the first receipts will begin after the rate change: staff estimated $1,750,000 for the partial initial year and a full-year estimate of roughly $3,000,000.
For 2025 the project list uses a $3,000,000 program budget (partly funded by a transfer from the capital improvement budget to make up the partial-year initial TBD receipts). Staff proposed two main project categories: hot-mix-asphalt (HMA) overlays and a patching contract. The 2025 overlay list included Clearwater (Columbia Center Boulevard to Kellogg, estimated $1,300,000), Edison Street (Tenth Avenue to Clearwater, estimated $943,000) and a Quinault segment (estimated $260,000) tied to other work at Quinault and Plymouth Center Boulevard. An HMA patching contract was proposed at $400,000. Staff also proposed funds for design and construction engineering (PE/CE) and for a pavement-rating contract to map and score all city roads.
Malott described the city's pavement-rating approach and how staff will use the PCI (pavement condition index) scores returned by a consultant's camera-based survey to prioritize overlays and BST (bituminous surface treatment) contracts on collectors and neighborhood streets.
Council members asked technical questions about milling versus grinding and how storm-drain and manhole-ring adjustments will be handled. Malott said the city will mill next to gutter pans, retain asphalt where useful, and work to lift manhole rings and valve adjustments with concrete collars to reduce ride issues.
The council approved the project list on a motion by Mayor Pro Tem Torelli, seconded by Mayor Crawford, and the clerk recorded the vote as unanimous 7-0. Staff said they will return later in the year with an after-action report showing work completed and expenditures.
