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scheduling in 1998 and earlier, the number of total candidate projects for 1999 has an estimated 4?,ostm-f~.Tg57(~3. The list of candidate projects are being reviewed by the street superintendent and his staff and a schedule of selected projects and deferred projects will be presented at the meeting. Policies and Futures Prok, rams The above discussion leads into the consideration for~r6'el~l~c~e'u~n~e,i~. An evaluation of the City's pavement data base confirms that the level of funding needs to be increased substantially over that allocated in past years programs if the maintenance frequency goals are to be achieved..Attached is a summary of the street maintenance programs conducted since 1992. The s~e in the progr~in the 'lig.-9~am resulted from the ~ · ' · . .' ..~ ~tes of~'~ty, t.~l~~"~funds. The need for greater amounts of future funding stems from the fact that the City pavements are aging and a larger percentage require more expensive overlays. An estimate of the cost of preventive maintenance was made utilizing was made utilizing tttree separate methods lea:ds staff to conclude an annual budget of~Yt3a,~0t) be required in the Many of the ~ regarding this program have been of a similar nature over the years. A ~"'='v'v~of the ~ents have had to do with the q.~ala~y or ~ty of the work which was performed. However, the~RlljS'ri~ of the comments were flimerett~at the this program. With increasing the size of the program cost, it should be anticipated that there would be an increase in the number of such comments. Attached is a t-,fffl'er.~showing the average ,atll!~ of assessments gssociated with the street maintenance program since 1992. The following are some considerations for possibly modifying the assessment procedures. (a) · 'B/[im'~~f~m~ssmcnm. Many of the ~~ received at assessment hearings suggested that ~ revenue should fund these types of ~~. While man~~~ I!l~i~RtJ~ith this~itRlI~t'it, the financial challenges of raising an additional $365,000 annually makes eliminating the entire assessment highly unlikely. This assumes the annual program budget would be raised to-$500,000, when we currently budget $135,000. However, it~ be ~1~ to eth'triwate or,lYflt!~ut the assessments for~. These projects represent s'It~:l-l~~ents, and a growing number of projects will include overlays. (b) ~rg~"~iW0~~~~. There will be ~ts i~ streets on the ~:Jl~!~-'i~k~n. Therefore, this may be a good time to address this issue which has e~ted a cq!!~l~ amount of ~ in thek-tlllg~ The actual amount of~m,~mxk'~ generated from assessment 6fproperties fronting on MSA streets is v. e2~l. The ~ basically one o~. If a resident on a non-MSA street is assessed, should a resident on an MSA street be exempt from assessment for a similar improvement. ~'tmff~l~tllo:· ' - e the fact that the~ funds from the state for such projects. However, the City received less than five percent annually of the money it needs to bring the City's MSA system up to MSA standards. In short, the amount of money received falls far short of its programmed needs. The second @shared/pwcommit/1999/january/streetma I I I I I I I I I I I ! I i I ! I I I