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DPW: 17 failed street segments, options are 3M steady or 5M front‑loaded to catch up
Summary
DPW staff reported 17 failed segments (PCI<30). Under a $3M/year critical‑point strategy the city would make gradual progress; pushing $5M/year for five years could eliminate the backlog and then allow a reduced maintenance level.
Public Works staff told the committee there are 17 segments considered to be in failed condition and explained how the city's recommended critical‑point approach schedules treatments to delay costly rehabilitation.
Staff said their five‑year plan at the current ~$3M per year investment can address only a fraction of the failed segments (roughly 17% of the cost to address the 17 segments within the five‑year window). To get to all failed segments in the near term, staff said the city would need to raise annual pavement spending to about $5M for five years and then return to a maintenance baseline.
"If we're spending 3,000,000 now... if we want to get rid of the backlog, we have to take that 3,000,000 up to about 5,000,000 a year for the first five years," one DPW staffer explained. Staff also described operational limits — procurement, contractor capacity and traffic impacts — that would accompany concentrated multi‑year programs.
Committee members asked about criteria that prioritize segments (emergency access, traffic volumes, neighborhood equity) and requested a per‑district/ per‑category list that shows how many miles and which segments would be addressed under each funding scenario.
