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Woodland outlines $77 million decade of road work, warns sales-tax risk could double schedule
Summary
City staff told the City Council that Woodland invested about $77 million in road maintenance over the past 10 years, using state and federal grants and local sales tax. Staff described treatment lifespans, per-mile costs for reconstruction and resurfacing, and a zone-based schedule that depends on Measure F continuing beyond 2028.
Woodland officials on Oct. 21 told the City Council the city has invested roughly $77 million in its road program over the last decade and warned that lapsing local sales tax revenue would materially slow future maintenance.
Principal Engineer Katie Wirtzel told the council that about 45% of the $77 million came from state and federal grants, roughly 43% from local sales taxes (Measures E and F), and the remainder from Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds and Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation revenues under SB1 (RMRA). She said the city is responsible for about 440 lane miles of paved roadway and described a zone-based maintenance approach intended to reduce repeated impacts to the same neighborhoods.
Wirtzel gave cost examples for common treatments: a full reconstruction costs about $7 million per mile; a grind-and-overlay about $1.5 million per mile; and neighborhood surface treatments such as slurry seal and micro-surfacing run between $100,000 and $400,000 per mile. She said surface treatments typically extend pavement life about 10 years, grinds and overlays about 15 years, and full reconstructions 25–35 years.
Staff showed systemwide pavement condition index (PCI) maps and said local-street PCI was about 66 in 2018 and 64 in 2025, while arterials and collectors rose to a PCI of 72 after grant-supported projects such as Kentucky Avenue, West Main Street, Gibson and Matt Moore. Wirtzel said the city shifted focus to arterials and collectors after completing a cycle of local street zones, then plans to return to local-zone work while continuing to reserve funding for major corridors.
Council members pressed staff about residential streets that were last treated in 2018 and are showing potholes and early cracking. Wirtzel said staff is concerned and that the city—s in-house road crew performs preparatory work (crack sealing and base repairs) that helps delay more costly full reconstruction. She noted that federal and state grant funds typically are limited to arterials and collectors and cannot be used on local neighborhood streets, so the city leverages its local sales tax as the matching share for grant-funded projects.
City Manager Ken Hyatt and council members emphasized the funding risk: the maintenance schedule in staff materials assumes Measure F continues past its current 2028 sunset. Wirtzel said if the sales-tax measure lapses, the program shown would take roughly twice as long to complete and the city could face higher reconstruction costs if streets deteriorate further.
Council members asked that the presentation and PCI maps be published for public view. Staff said the presentation will be posted to the city website and communications staff will prepare graphics and social posts. The presentation also noted curb, sidewalk and ADA ramp work are additional and often required when streets receive major upgrades, and full inclusion of curb and sidewalk would substantially raise project costs.
Wirtzel closed by saying staff can coordinate pavement work with utility projects where feasible and that the city continues to pursue grants to leverage local funding.
