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City of San Leandro <br />Meeting Date: September 6, 2016 <br />Presentation <br />Agenda Section:File Number:16-400 PRESENTATIONS <br />Agenda Number:3.B. <br />TO:City Council <br />FROM:Chris Zapata <br />City Manager <br />BY:Keith Cooke <br />Engineering & Transportation Director <br />FINANCE REVIEW:Not Applicable <br />TITLE:Presentation on the City’s Pavement Management Program <br />SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS <br />This report is provided for information only and no action is required. <br />BACKGROUND <br />Streets are a critical component of our infrastructure and an important factor in the quality of <br />life for our residents and the vitality of our businesses. Good pavement increases the <br />efficiency of transporting goods, improves bicycle safety and makes walking more appealing <br />which all leads to reduced greenhouse gas emissions. Each day, residents are dependent <br />upon safe, reliable local streets and roads. Police, fire and emergency medical services all <br />need safe, reliable roads to react quickly to calls. <br />Street pavement improvement is one of those “pay now or pay more later” situations. A dollar <br />spent this year will save two to ten dollars in the future. Once the system is in a state of good <br />repair, the need for maintenance will be reduced. Repairs to local roadways are more than <br />just fixing potholes; they include improvements for sidewalks, stormwater control, gutters, curb <br />ramps, traffic signs and medians, all of which make our roads safer. <br />San Leandro has 4,000,000 square yards of street pavement spread over 175 centerline <br />miles of streets. For tracking purposes the streets are divided into 1,100 road segments with <br />an average length of around 1,000 feet. Each road segment is inspected and rated on a <br />scale of 1 (bad) to 100 (good) every other year; this rating is known as the Pavement <br />Condition Index (PCI). <br />The City uses a computer program developed by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission <br />(MTC) called Street Saver to manage the maintenance of San Leandro’s street system. <br />Street inspection results are entered into this database and over time, staff has collected <br />Page 1 City of San Leandro Printed on 8/29/2016