City Council Approves $6 Million For Street Resurfacing

Oct 11, 2023

As part of Monday's consent calendar, the Pasadena City Council on Monday approved an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2024 Capital Improvement Program appropriating $6 million to the annual citywide street resurfacing and ADA improvement program.

A consent calendar is a tool used by government bodies to streamline meeting procedures by grouping routine, non-controversial items into a single agenda item that can be approved in one vote.

The funding will be used to resurface streets throughout the city, including those with high pedestrian and bicycle traffic.

A comprehensive assessment of pavement condition was conducted citywide in 2019 to generate a Pavement Condition Index (PCI) rating for each street segment.

The network-wide average PCI was calculated at a score of 58, and the 2019 analysis identified an annual funding need of approximately $11 million to maintain the City's average PCI score.

The City has a network of approximately 360 centerline miles of asphalt-paved streets estimated to have a value of $500 million.

Since Fiscal Year 2019, the budget appropriation for the Annual Street Resurfacing and ADA Improvement Program has averaged $4.5 million, resulting in a decline in the average PCI score from 58 to 53. The condition of the City's roadway network scores lowest among its neighboring cities.

This one-time appropriation of an additional $6 million, in conjunction with the annual CIP appropriation, will maintain a network-wide average PCI value of 53 for another year and mitigate the exponentially greater cost of deferred maintenance on the streets to be addressed.

This $6 million investment would rehabilitate approximately eight center line miles, which if deferred, would cost the City over $13 million to rehabilitate in five years and over $39 million if deferred for 15 years. If approved, staff will utilize $3 million to slurry seal and/or micro-surface of streets that are in good condition (PCI > 60) to prevent these streets from further deterioration and needing a grind and overlay treatment, which would cost approximately three times as much. The remaining $3 million will be utilized to rehabilitate streets that are in poor or very poor condition (PCI < 40) and part of the City's backlog of streets in need of thick overlays or pavement reconstruction.

Here are the other items that passed on Monday's consent calendar:

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