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Citrus County hears stark pavement report, delays sales-tax vote pending voter research
Summary
Consultants told the board the county’s pavement condition index averages 55.4 and backlog exceeds $700 million. Commissioners asked staff to run the new pavement-management software unconstrained using current FY funding; commissioners tabled a sales-tax ordinance to await fully funded market research from Trust for Public Land.
Katia Delgado of Mott MacDonald told the Citrus County Board of County Commissioners the countywide pavement-condition index (PCI) averages 55.37, a level the consultant categorized as “poor,” and that backlog for repairs exceeds roughly $700 million, mostly for reconstruction. The board received 10-year funding scenarios showing current funding (about $16 million annually) would let the network continue to decline, while $45 million–$65 million over the decade would bring the network into satisfactory or good condition.
Delgado said the analysis was performed in“today’s dollars” with no inflation assumptions and that the pavement-management software can run “constrained” or “unconstrained” scenarios depending on board direction. She described the tool as…
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