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Mill Valley committee opens review of municipal services tax; staff urges keeping pavement funding steady
Summary
City staff told a newly formed Municipal Services Tax Study Committee that Mill Valley’s roads are in good overall shape (system PCI ~79) but face a multiyear backlog; staff recommended maintaining current pavement-investment levels and asked the committee to decide MST scope, duration and specific priorities.
Mill Valley’s Municipal Services Tax Study Committee began its work with staff presentations that framed the city’s road network as largely healthy but carrying a sizable backlog and funding gap.
“It was $266 when it was approved,” City Manager Ervin Carmel said of the municipal services tax (MST), adding that the levy “goes up by 2% per year.” Carmel told the panel the tax has historically been used primarily for roads (staff cited about 85% of MST funds going to pavement work) with a smaller share for fire-related needs.
Deputy Director of Engineering Jared Vartasharian said the city’s systemwide weighted pavement condition index (PCI) is about 79—“we’re good,” he said—but emphasized that a relatively small percentage of the network represents a large share of replacement cost. “We have about 61 centerline miles of pavement,” Vartasharian said. “Our liability for all of our roads today is about $210,000,000.”
Staff presented three modeled funding…
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