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Staff has been rating the city's pavements for the past six (6) years. <br />The Pavement Management Program (PMP) used in the past was <br />difficult to understand and work with as it was a hand written program. <br />Although staff did perform preventative maintenance based on the <br />PMP, it did not provide staff, council, and the public a concrete <br />understanding of the program. Last year council authorized staff to <br />proceed with the purchase of a new program, funded from the Capital <br />Improvement Fund for streets. Staff had intended to perform city wide <br />ratings in the fall of 1994, but project schedules conflicted, <br />consequently the rating will take place this spring. <br />A Pavement Management Program is a tool by which the appropriate <br />preventative maintenance technique are scheduled and performed to <br />ensure, enhance, or extend the pavements longevity. The PMP will <br />also project capital costs for maintenance procedures, allowing <br />accurate budget input. Life cycle curves, 5 -year Capital Improvement <br />schedules, drainage needs, are some of the many features available <br />from a good PMP. <br />An issue that staff has been battling for the past five (5) years, is to <br />what degree do we repair roads that should be reconstructed. <br />Numerous calls are received concerning standing water in front of <br />driveways, mailboxes, and frontages in general. Much of the remaining <br />gutter lines are deteriorating to the point where if staff does not repair <br />them to some extent, the remaining pavement surface will rapidly <br />decay. <br />An adopted PMP would establish guidelines or parameters which <br />would determine the level of maintenance a given segment of <br />pavement would receive, once it has declined in it's life cycle rating. <br />Dependent upon funding, labor, and street segment, a street may <br />receive minimal maintenance, which would provide for patching of the <br />driving lanes only.