Lucas council hears detailed update on road-improvement program, budgets and project priorities

CIP Manager Patrick Hubbard gave the Lucas City Council an extended briefing on the city’s road-improvement program, summarizing last year’s work, the current-year plan and near-term priorities.

Hubbard said the city spent about $8,000 on a system assessment, roughly $100,000 on crack sealing and about $25,000 on concrete panel replacement, with repaving work in the Woodmore and Meadows subdivisions and parts of East Winnicoff Road. “Altogether, that was program expenditure of $1,079,797,” he said, and including culvert and drainage work the total came to $1,308,870.

The presentation explained metrics and how staff uses a pavement-management system; Hubbard said the most recent data are from November 2024 and that updated scores should be available in January. “We’ll be able to see kind of how well, from an outcome measure perspective, we’ve moved that percentage,” he said, and offered to provide…