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Street maintenance update: fog-seal pilot, sweeping capacity and snow plans
Summary
Public Works reported on arterial maintenance funded by the 2014 levy, a fog-seal pilot that saved significant per-yard costs versus grind-and-overlay, constrained sweeping capacity after a prior 10% budget cut, and the city's snow and deicing plans including expected material usage and costs.
Clint Harris, presenting the street maintenance update, told the PIE Committee the arterial maintenance program receives about $5 million each season from the 2014 levy to fund grind-and-overlay, crack seal, chip seal and ADA ramp work. He said arterial PCI (pavement condition index) is about 70 and crews completed just under 170,000 square yards of work this year compared with a planned 130,000–135,000.
Harris described a cost-saving pilot: a fog-seal with aggregate applied to Indian Trail cost about "$1.72 a…
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