Staff demonstrates CityLogic mapping tool for roads and sidewalks, warns estimates run high

A city staff member demonstrated CityLogic — a street- and sidewalk-condition mapping and asset-management tool — and told the council the system can help the city prioritize repairs and build multi-year budgets.

The presenter showed a map that uses green, yellow and red condition scores to flag segments needing routine maintenance, partial replacement or full reconstruction. He demonstrated how a staffer can select segments, send work requests, upload photos and monitor progress. “Of course, we have the ones that say reconstruction. That means there's something wrong with it that means there's breaks,” the staff member said, describing the system's condition labels.

The presenter warned that the tool’s cost estimates can be high. “The estimated cost is really high. Really high,” he said, and suggested the city could use the system to assemble multi-year budgets to address the highest-priority segments within a roughly five-year window. He also described data limitations: an automated run using a scooter failed to detect some sidewalk defects, so the system is intended to be used together with manual checks and a separate SAGE program to validate and refine results.

Staff recommended the council be granted access to review the map and individual work items; they said the system will be uploaded to the city website and that council members could take photos and submit them back into the workflow. The demonstration was positioned as an informational briefing; no procurement decision or contract award was recorded in the transcript.