05-05-09 Special CM Minutes
Special Council/Manager Meeting Minutes
May 5, 2009
Present: Mayor Loomis and Council Members Freiberg, Pentel, Scanlon and Shaffer,
City Manager Tom Burt, Public Works Director Jeannine Clancy, City Engineer Jeff
Oliver, Finance Director Sue Virnig and Assistant City Manager Jeanne Andre.
The meeting began at 7 pm in the Council Conference Room.
2010 Pavement Management Program
Tom Burt explained that the debt required to support the current schedule for the
Pavement Management Program (PMP) will grow significantly in the upcoming years.
Given the poor economic climate the staff has prepared a plan to extend the
construction of the local streets in the PMP an additional five years, to 2019. This would
allow the debt to ramp up more gradually and the overall levy would benefit from the
termination of the Golden Hills tax increment district in 2015. The public participation
process for the 2010 PMP is set to begin later this month and the staff needs to know if
the number of miles to be reconstructed in 2010 should be maintained or reduced, given
the debt load and the economic environment.
The Council reviewed the condition of the streets and the tradeoff between increased
bonded debt and increased operating expenses to support the failing streets that have
not been reconstructed. They also discussed the need to plan and budget for overlays
to the reconstructed streets to protect the investment that has been made to the street
infrastructure.
Restructuring of the debt has decreased the near-term debt increases, so the Council
supported maintaining the current reconstruction program for 2010, but determined that
it would annually revisit the area/mileage to be included in the feasibility study for each
phase of construction. The feasibility for the 2011 PMP program will be reviewed by the
Council in the summer or fall of 2009.
The meeting adjourned at 7:43 pm.
Jeanne Andre
Assistant City Manager