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Medina committee considers $9,000-a-year mapping subscription, tree inventory and grinder pilot to speed sidewalk repairs
Summary
The committee weighed a subscription mapping service that uses truck-mounted imagery and lasers (vendor materials list price: $9,000/year), a combined tree-and-sidewalk inventory from Davey Resource Group, and an in-house grinder pilot starting in Ward 1 to target small defects and reduce backlog.
Medina’s Streets & Sidewalks committee debated whether to contract technology, hire consultants or use in-house crews to identify and address sidewalks that residents say are unsafe.
City engineer Pat Patton described a subscription package presented by the vendor in the committee packet: the company would ship a truck-mounted imaging and laser unit (materials call the device “Bridal”) that would collect data across the city and produce condition reports. “They can only probably capture 80% of the defects,” Pat Patton said, noting the firm recommended a multiyear agreement though the city could try a one‑year pilot.
The committee discussed what the data would — and would not — resolve. Chair (committee chair) and other members…
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