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Committee weighs PCI-based priorities as District 7 assessment nears expiry
Summary
Committee and staff discussed PNP survey work and PCI thresholds to guide future projects, with staff estimating a Zone 1/2 slurry at about $325,000 and noting recent projects cost $1M–$1.5M while the District 7 assessment generates roughly $400,000 per cycle.
Members of the Rhodes Advisory Committee spent most of the March 25 meeting discussing future roads funding, how to prioritize work using PCI data, and whether to treat streets by zone or by worst-conditions-first as the District 7 assessment nears expiration in two years.
Staff described the PNP micropaver survey process — field engineers walking streets and updating PCI scores — and offered to schedule committee site visits so members could observe the survey work. The Staff member explained treatment recommendations tied to PCI ranges: slurry for higher PCI ranges, grind-and-overlay for lower ranges, and full reconstruction for PCI below 30.
On cost, the Staff member cited a historical unit price for slurry (about 43¢ per square foot in the 2021–22 project) and estimated roughly $325,000 to slurry the remaining red-coded roads in Zone 1 and Zone 2 based on those unit rates. "If we looked at all the roads in Zone 1 and Zone 2 that haven't been done, it's about $325,000 worth of slurry work based off of if you look at the unit price from that time," the Staff member said.
Committee members and the Chair expressed constituent concerns that the assessment was expected to cover all roads; members reiterated that three recent projects ran over $1 million and that the district assessment typically produces about $400,000 per cycle, with the remainder coming from restricted and general funds. "There's been a lot of expectations of every road would get ground and overlaid, but there's just not enough money," the Staff member said.
The group debated two approaches: continuing zone-by-zone scheduling or targeting the worst PCI segments first. The Staff member said he can re-sort the PCI tables and overlay them on a map to help the committee create packages by condition; Rafferty (a Committee member) specifically requested sorting the data by current PCI to assist prioritization.
Next steps: staff will complete the PNP survey work, provide updated PCI maps and tables and present options at the next meeting so the committee can decide whether to prioritize by zone or by worst-condition segments before the assessment expires.
