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Raytown staff urges $5 million annual street-maintenance target to stop widening deterioration
Summary
City engineers told the Raytown Board of Aldermen that a $5 million annual maintenance program — up from the current $1 million — is needed to treat 8–12% of lane miles yearly and raise the citywide pavement-condition index from the 2018 level of 45.3.
City engineering consultants and public-works staff told the Raytown Board of Aldermen on Feb. 18 that the city’s streets are deteriorating faster than current maintenance dollars can repair and that a larger recurring budget is the most cost-effective way to stabilize conditions.
Greg Van Patten, a project manager with Lampard Nearson, explained the pavement-condition index (PCI) framework and the lifecycle of common treatments. Van Patten said Raytown’s network PCI was 45.3 based on a 2018 survey and described three tiers of interventions — crack sealing, surface treatments such as MAQS and UBAS, and full mill-and-overlay or reconstruction — that are selected depending on a segment’s PCI and underlying base failures. “If you let your street fall down into the very poor condition and then attempt to surface treat it without base repairs, it’s going to come back down quickly,” Van Patten said.
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