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Goldsboro advances pavement-preservation plan and weighs $20M funding gap
Summary
Council heard staff presentations on a $1.2 million pavement-preservation program and a Davenport Associates analysis laying out options to close a roughly $20 million shortfall over 10 years. Council asked staff for budget detail and will consider adoption as old business on Oct. 6.
Goldsboro city staff on Sept. 22 presented a pavement-preservation plan that uses targeted treatments — crack sealing, microsurfacing, rehabilitation and reconstruction — to extend the life of the city’s streets while keeping mobilization costs down.
The program presentation, led by Jonathan of Public Works, proposed concentrating work on long runs of contiguous blocks to reduce equipment mobilization and to maximize value. "Microsurfacing ... extends the life of the asphalt by 6 to 9 years," Jonathan said, and staff recommended beginning design and permitting now with construction targeted to begin in April and a six-month construction window to finish the first round.
Why it matters: an earlier city street study concluded the community needs roughly $3.2 million per year to maintain current…
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