To: Honorable Mayor and Members of City Council
From: Julie Lucido, Public Works Director
Prepared By: Omar Flores, Management Analyst II
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Streets Paving Program, Budget Adjustment FY24
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RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Recommendation
Approve a budget adjustment in the Streets and Sidewalks Fund by increasing expenditure budgets by $850,000 as documented in Council Budget Amendment No. 190P09.
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DISCUSSION:
Infrastructure has been identified as one of City Council's key priority areas for fiscal years 2023/2024 and 2024/2025. The maintenance and repair of our streets is an important component of the infrastructure work and it is also a high priority for our community. The City accomplishes the street paving work primarily through 1) the Capital Improvement Program (CIP) and 2) the City's operations team. The CIP projects are designed by the engineering team and placed out to bid for a contractor to complete the project. These projects are typically on busy arterial and major collector roadways. The operations team includes a full paving crew and focuses street repair work efforts within the residential neighborhoods.
After several years of vacancies, our paving crew has been close to fully staffed over the last summer and fall. Since July 1, 2023, our crew has completed grinding and paving for sections of Ash Street, Sherwood Circle, Arboreo Street, Gordon Drive, Plass Drive, Balboa Way, Cabot Way, Marina Drive, Joliet Way, Main Street, Adrian Street, Waverly Street, K Street, Carolina Street, and Ida Street.
The proposed budget adjustment will support the purchase of additional construction materials, supplies, and trucking service through June 30, 2024. The programmed work will include repairs to some of the damaged street sections reported after recent winter storms and paving within the Lake Park/Stone House/Adrian Neighborhoods. The additional funding will provide the material and resources for our paving crew to operate at ...
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