Tiburon Awards $1.67 Million Pavement‑Maintenance Contract to Preserve Peninsula Streets

Tiburon Town Council authorized the town manager to award the FY26 pavement maintenance contract to Pavement Codings Inc. for $1,665,179 and to approve construction‑management services with Pavement Engineering Inc. for $174,115, with a change‑order allowance up to 8% of the construction price.

Public works staff explained the strategy: rather than jumping around the peninsula, the town will work quadrant‑by‑quadrant to apply slurry and surface preservation on roughly 36 center miles and 41 segments in the northwest quadrant. Staff said preventative slurry is far less expensive than later reconstruction, explaining, "The PCI 100 is good, zero is failed," and noting that timely slurry can preserve pavement life at roughly $2.50 per square foot compared with substantially higher reconstruction costs.

Bids opened May 28; Pavement Codings was the low bidder at $1,665,179 (about 10.5% above the engineer’s estimate). Funding for the project will come from restricted pavement funds (town street impact fees, SP‑1, county Measure A, and gas tax) and will not draw on the town’s general fund.

Council members asked for and received assurances about traffic‑management sequencing (to avoid conflicts with school travel routes) and asked staff to provide a short memo explaining the quadrant approach and comparative cost implications before future paving rounds.

Next steps: the town will finalize contract documents and authorize the town manager to execute the award and to manage change orders up to the approved limit; work is scheduled to begin after the July 4 weekend and be substantially complete before the fall school term.