Attached is the information requested. As we discussed, voters approved a $134million +/- transportation bond package in 2008. $8 Million was allocated to street resurfacing. In 2010, $500,000 was sold and subsequently used for contracted resurfacing. In 2012, another $2 million was sold and will be used for contracted resurfacing this summer. That leaves $5.5 million in approved but unsold bonds. Please give me a call if you have further questions.
Thanks
Michael Mabe, P.E.
Manager, Streets & Storm Water Maintenance
Field Operations Department
City of Greensboro
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Field Operations Department
City of Greensboro
October 22, 2012
TO: Dale Wyrick, P.E., Director of Field Operations
FROM: Mike Mabe, P.E., Manager, Streets and Stormwater
SUBJECT: Results from 2012 Pavement Condition Survey
The Field Operations Department contracted with US Infrastructure of Carolina, Inc., a consulting engineering firm, to complete a pavement condition survey of all municipally owned streets in Greensboro. The information provided by the survey will be used to meet organizational goals for maintaining infrastructure and providing sustainable growth opportunities. It will also be used to establish objectives for our short-term (day to day) operations as well as our long term capital improvement (resurfacing) program for the next 2-3 years.
The survey was conducted from May through August of this year and involved a visual inspection of 1,075 miles of asphalt roadway, by segment, for common pavement distresses and their severity. Data from the observations was entered into pavement management software which generated a pavement condition rating (PCR) for each segment. The PCR rating scale used ranged from 0-100, 100 being the highest. In addition, the survey also recommended maintenance activities and estimated costs associated with those activities using current unit prices.
Findings
• The City of Greensboro’s street system is in “poor” condition with an average PCR rating of 64.2.
• The City of Greensboro’s PCR rating is significantly below the average PCR of peer North Carolina cities Charlotte (83), Raleigh (81), Winston-Salem (74).
...The Field Operations Management Accountability and Performance (MAP) goal is for an average pavement condition rating of 80...
• Thirty-two percent (343 miles) of streets are recommended for resurfacing within the next year.
• Sixty five percent (700 miles) of streets are currently in need of some level of maintenance (crack seal, patching, or resurfacing)
• The percent of streets in “very poor” condition has almost doubled since 2008.
• Present day costs to complete needed repairs exceed $112 million.
Greensboro’s street network has an asset value of nearly $558 million. The results of this survey show a significant increase in spending is needed to improve or preserve it.....
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"Tax rates in GSO have risen more than 4 times faster than in Charlotte
and more than twice as fast as rates in Raleigh.
"Effective Tax Rates 2012 2003 % Chg.
Charlotte 1.2310 1.1448 7.5%
Greensboro 1.4067 1.0746 30.9%
Raleigh 1.0092 0.8809 14.6%"
G. Donald Jud, Ph.D.
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Greensboro taxpayers pay more taxes than Charlotte and Raleigh, yet our streets are in worse shape.
It appears some monies have been diverted from some priorities that most think it's what they pay taxes for, to what many consider to be discretionary ventures with everyone else's money.
How many blown tires?
Where did the money that should have gone to the roads go?
How many alignments?
If the % of very poor streets has doubled since 2008, and we committed to borrowing $8 million and didn't...?
How many unnecessary injuries?
So we're not immediately borrowing $5.5 million for our $112 million problem?
Let's say it's currently actually a $30 million problem...?
To be continued...
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