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I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I 1996 ANNUAL STREET MAINTENANCE PROGRAM By: Steven Jankowski, City Engineer Background: Previous to this case, public hearings will have been held on Improvement Project Numbers 96-01 through 96-15, which will comprise the 1996 Annual Street Maintenance Program. The City performed its first sealcoating work in 1981 and has had an annual program for addressing the routine maintenance needs of its paved streets since that time. A history of the City pavements and maintenance program is attached. The City has a considerable investment in the nearly 125 miles of paved roadway for which it is responsible. It is estimated that the replacement cost excluding curb, gutter, drainage, and turf restoration approaches $10 million. In order to preserve the investment in its bituminous pavements, the City has a goal of applying a sealcoat to any new pavement or overlay after a period of five years and to reseal or overlay as needed at seven year succeeding intervals. The City has not been able to achieve this goal in recent years due to budget constraints and the large amounts of pavement which has come due for periodic maintenance as a result of the large paving programs of the early 1980's. This years program consists entirely of crack filling followed by sealcoating of over 20 miles of streets. The 1996 program consists of 15 individual projects which have been aggregated by individual subdivisions. Project #96-07 is a combination of two adjacent subdivisions which have similar lot sizes and pavement conditions. Projects #96-06, #96-10, and #96-12 are unplatted areas having relatively similar lot sizes, Project #96-11 consists of two platted subdivisions and unplatted lots which are adjacent. Here again, the lot sizes among the properties within the project designation are relatively similar. Two projects, Project #96-14 and #96-15 are proposed to be financed differently from the others. Project #96-14 represents a contiguous project area which has largely differing lot sizes. Project #96-15 includes the maintenance needs of 161st Lane, west of County Road #83 and is unique in that 0.65 miles of roadway has the ability to assess only eleven parcels, in part due to large comer lots which had been previously assessed on the other lot frontage. Both Projects #96-14 and #96-15 are proposed to be assessed the average 1996 program unit charge. Council Action: Following the public hearing, the Council should direct any revisions to the feasibility study it deems necessary as a result of the comments made at the public hearing, as the feasibility study will serve as the basis for determining the work to be performed and the method in which costs will be assessed. Reviewed by: City Engineer City Administrator Finance Officer CC: 02/13/95 /ccr