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El Cajon finance director warns deferred maintenance and condition assessments must guide capital planning
Summary
Director of Finance Clay Shane told the council El Cajon’s asset records show uneven ages across buildings, pavement and utilities and that condition assessments and long-term funding (including Prop J replacement) are critical to avoid expensive failures. The council unanimously accepted the informational report.
Clay Shane, the city’s director of finance, presented an informational report examining El Cajon’s capital assets and deferred maintenance by asset class. He described a methodology comparing inflation-adjusted replacement costs and estimated useful lives across buildings, bridges, pavement, sidewalks, signal devices and underground systems.
Shane cautioned that accounting depreciation…
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