Infrastructure & Maintenance Strategy

Implement the Save Our Streets Committee recommendations for street maintenance.

City staff and Council are continuing the process of gradually shifting Water/Sewer Franchise Fees to fund transportation operations and maintenance activities in the Transportation Services Division. This process is one method in which the City is meeting its annual funding target to provide street maintenance services. A total of $991,000 in Water/Sewer Franchise Fees, or 40% of the total amount of fees collected, was approved for FY07/08. Currently, the majority of funds used for street pavement maintenance come from these fees. During summer of 2007, City crews fully paved or thin overlay paved 122,830 square yards of streets (roughly equal to 90 blocks) with Water/Sewer Franchise Fee funds.