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Public Works trims equipment to meet 15% cuts while keeping one resurfacing project per district
Summary
Public Works reduced its operating requests by about $1.5 million to meet a 15% target and preserved one road-repair project per council district; staff described more data-driven resurfacing standards and deferred some equipment purchases.
Public Works staff told the council that reaching the council's 15% cut target required substantial reductions, including delaying some equipment purchases and prioritizing one road-repair project per district.
“We had to take out 1,500,000 off the top... So we took it down to 1 road per district,” the public works director said, explaining that the department used repair-history data and traffic patterns to prioritize projects. Staff also described a shift away from the old overlay practice toward milling and rebuilding to DOT standards for longer-lasting repairs: “So now we mill them... whatever we mill off, we put the same exact amount of pavement on them.”
Councilors asked staff to catalogue near-term capital needs for the city’s lobbyists and grant applications. Staff agreed to assemble a wish list of equipment and capital items for funding and lobbying consideration.
