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City assessments find $60M in facility needs, $20M in parks work and an $11.5M annual funding gap
Summary
Public works and department leads summarized facility, pavement and parks assessments: roughly $60M in facility upgrades over 20 years, $20M in park improvements, pavement maintenance needs raising annual pavement spending from about $9M to $12M, and combined annual preservation needs of about $11.5M.
Public Works Director Raja Setharaman and other department leads presented recent assessments showing substantial capital and maintenance needs across city facilities, parks and pavement.
Setharaman said the facility needs assessment identified roughly $60 million in upgrades and replacements over the next 20 years along with about $3 million per year needed for ongoing maintenance; current annual spending on facilities is about $4 million, leaving an annual shortfall of approximately $5 million relative to identified maintenance and upgrade needs. The pavement management plan reported a pavement condition index (PCI) of 82.6 (goal 85) and noted an annual need of about $12 million to maintain or improve conditions versus current annual spending of about $9 million. The parks assessment estimated about $20 million in playground and park improvements; excluding previously received grants, staff currently budgets roughly $1 million per year to parks upgrades and said an additional $1 million per year would be needed to meet a 10‑year completion target for the $20M program.
Council members used those figures to frame the scope of the city’s infrastructure gap and how much of that need the proposed business license reform might address; staff summarized those combined assessments as requiring approximately $11.5 million annually to preserve infrastructure and current service levels.
