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Board presses staff on pavement condition ratings, GPR testing and formal asset-management records
Summary
Board members asked for clearer, documented pavement condition ratings and for staff to consider ground-penetrating radar or other mobile testing; members urged formalizing asset-management and GIS records to prevent knowledge loss when staff retire.
At the June 9 meeting the board probed how pavement condition ratings are collected and whether the city uses mobile testing tools such as ground-penetrating radar (GPR). A committee member described the question as "nerdy" but important, asking whether condition ratings are recorded or retained only in staff knowledge.
Staff said selection is geographic and described use of lifecycle and last-treated data to target overlays and other treatments. "It's kind of—it's very geographical," a staff member said when explaining how streets are chosen for work. Board members pressed for a formal asset-management approach and a GIS-backed system to prevent data loss as staff retire, citing a regional survey that flagged retirement-related information loss as a concern.
Members asked staff to return with clearer documentation of the city’s pavement-condition methodology, any pilot testing options (including GPR), and proposed steps to migrate condition data into persistent asset-management records.
