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HomeMy WebLinkAbout04/14/1998, 2 - SOLID WASTE SERVICES PLAN - RATE STRUCTURE CHANGES 7 PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT PLAN Co Uncit McApri1 1 4, 1 99R j ac En ba 12Epo12t �pri 1¢m Dumber C I TY O F SAN LU I S O B I S P O FROM: John Moss, Utilities Directo Prepared By: Sue Baasch, dministrative Analyst Ron Munds, Utilities Conservation Coordinator SUBJECT: Solid Waste Services Plan-Rate Structure Changes CAO RECOMMENDATION Provide conceptual approval of,and direct staff to present to affected businesses and residents: 1. modifications to the residential solid waste service rate structure incorporating previously approved service options and in accordance with adopted rate structure and solid waste program goals; 2. modifications to the commercial refuse rate structure to establish a rate structure based on volume and frequency of collection in accordance with adopted rate structure and solid waste program goals;and, 3. implementation of a volume based commercial recycling fee to be set at 25% of the commercial refuse rate for a comparable volume, implementation of a base fee for commercial recycling program services,and a per bag fee for office paper and polystyrene collection. REPORT IN BRIEF On January 13, 1998, Council held a study session to consider possible modifications to the City's residential refuse collection services, and options associated with cost recovery for an expanding and labor intensive commercial recycling program. Consistent with Council's January direction, this report presents rate structure recommendations for residential and commercial refuse programs and a commercial recycling fee structure,based on application of adopted rate structure and solid waste goals and policies. With rate structure being almost entirely policy driven,it is important that Council consider the applicable policies and goals in their review of the proposed rate structures. The primary focus of these recommendations and the majority of our solid waste goals is to continue to encourage increasing levels of conservation and recycling necessary to achieve compliance with the solid waste reduction requirements of AB 939. The recommendations propose a residential solid waste rate structure associated with previously approved service modifications; propose a methodology for revising the commercial refuse rate structure; and, propose a methodology for establishing a commercial recycling rate structure, consistent with Council's January 1998 direction. Consideration of the recommendations contained in this report represents the first step in a four step process for establishing revised solid waste services fees. Following this first step, staff will present the proposed rate structures through written notice, meeting with representative . o�2—/ 1 Council Agenda Report—Solid Waste Service and Rate Structure Changes Page 2 organizations such as the BIA and Manufacturers Association, and town meetings, to receive public input relative to the new rate structures and services. Staff will then return to Council and present this information and final recommendations. With Council approval, staff will then apply the new rate structures to the pending 1998 Solid Waste Base Year Rate Application and present the final rate recommendationsto Council. Residential solid waste rate structure modification The recommended rate structure for residential solid waste services will set pricing according to refuse container volume , also known as unit pricing or "pay as you throw." After adjusting for expected customer migration to the new economy (32 gallon waste wheeler) service, the recommended rate structure will be revenue neutral. The application of volume based pricing strategies to the previously approved residential refuse services result in the following recommendations: • Retain standard service(64 gal.container)charge(this category includes the majority of our customers); • Set the rate for the new economy service(32 gal.container)at half of standard service; • Set orange bag service (32 gal. per bag) at 3 bags per month as roughly equivalent to economy service(the average orange bag customer uses 2.5 bags per month); • Set modified premium service (96 gal. container) at a volume based rate equal to standard(64 gal.) plus economy(32 gal.)service. Commercial refuse rate structure modifications The recommended rate structure would be set according to container volume and pickup frequency, added to a base charge representing administrative costs. In a true volume based commercial rate structure, the incremental increase between levels of service or volume of disposed refuse and the frequency of collection should be consistent. In reviewing the City's current commercial rate structure, the incremental increase between levels of service seem to be haphazard and staff is unclear as to what rationale was used to establish the current structure. Correcting the anomalies contained in the current commercial rate structure has been a goal of the Utilities Department for some time. Additionally, this change has now become necessary to provide an equitable volume based commercial recycling fee as directed by Council and discussed later in this report. The net effect of the recommended rate structure would be revenue neutral,while correcting the anomalies that have likely evolved over time. Commercial recycling charges Based on Council's direction in January, anticipated shortfalls in commercial revenues due to increased demand for commercial recycling services are to be recovered through a combination of a base charge paid by all commercial customers and a volume-based charge for customers demanding a higher level of service. Based on staff review of the preliminary 1998 Base Year Rate Application,there appears to be an approximate 3.2% shortfall in commercial revenue from prior as Council Agenda Report—Solid Waste Service and Rate Structure Changes Page 3 year rate application projections. Consistent with Council's direction, a fee structure which includes an approximate $3.00/commercial customer (base charge), a volume based commercial recycling fee for corrugated cardboard collection set at 25% of the refuse rate for a comparable volume, and an approximate $0.85 per bag fee for office paper and polystyrene collection will develop the required revenues to offset this commercial revenue shortfall. The base fee will cover the basic recycling services for all commercial customers(orange bin,green waste,and cardboard< 1 yard per week). DISCUSSION On January 13, 1998, Council held a study session to consider possible modifications to the City's residential refuse collection services and options associated with cost recovery for an expanding and labor intensive commercial recycling program. At that meeting Council approved the recommended modifications to the City's residential refuse collection services which will include the addition of a new 32 gallon waste wheeler service and eliminating the existing six can premium service, replacing it with a single 96 gallon waste-wheeler premium service. These service modifications were approved in order to further encourage conservation and recycling and continue the move toward automated refuse collection which is needed to help control the cost of residential refuse collection service. Additionally, Council provided direction to staff to develop a volume based commercial recycling fee to be set at a percentage of the commercial refuse rate for a similar volume. Together these program modifications will continue to improve our residential and commercial refuse and recycling services and help us achieve our solid waste reduction goals while providing equitable cost effective service. The relationship between solid waste refuse and recycling services and the relative cost to provide those services has changed significantly since 1995, the first base year rate evaluation. We continue to seek changes in our services in order to facilitate compliance with our solid waste goals while providing cost effective service programs. While our programs and services related to recycling and green waste have improved significantly,the volume of refuse generated, which is how we base the cost for service,has decreased. However,this shift in relationship between refuse and recycling is exactly what is required by AB 939. Other changes have occurred in our overall solid waste program since 1995. Several of these changes were at the direction of the City, were considered during the 1997-99 Financial Plan preparation, and will have rate implications in the 1998 base year refuse and recycling rate application. San Luis Garbage Company now collects refuse from the downtown sidewalk refuse containers and large City park containers,activities formerly performed by the City Public Works Department. City expenses related to meeting the AB 939 goals are now included as AB 939 fees charged to San Luis Garbage Company and are reflected in their overall revenue requirements, rather than as a general fund expense. Additionally, Cal Poly was lost as a San Luis Garbage commercial customer and there was a corresponding reduction in commercial revenues. However, the California Men's Colony was acquired as a new commercial customer,providing a partial offset for the lost revenue from Cal Poly. �3 Council Agenda Report—Solid Waste Service and Rate Structure Changes Page 4 This report recommends modifications to the City's current residential and commercial rate structures to ensure equity and that appropriate financial messages are incorporated into the rate structures which support our solid waste reduction and conservation goals. These recommended rate structure modifications are intended to move the City forward in meeting its AB 939 goals, while offering service level options to our customers that meet their service needs and ability to pay. Residential and Commercial Rate Structure Policies and Goals Currently, the residential and commercial rate structures are for the most part volume-based,' charging on the basis of the amount of refuse collected with frequency of collection a.factor for commercial and orange bag customers. Volume-based rates, also known as unit pricing or pay- as-you-throw, is a system under which customers pay for solid waste services per unit of waste collected rather than through a fixed fee, and is identified in our Source Reduction and Recycling Element as a rate structure policy. The benefits of volume-based rates include: • Reduced waste • Reduced waste disposal costs • Increased waste prevention • Increased participation in composting, recycling and green waste collection programs • A more equitable waste management fee structure Volume-based rates which encourage conservation are consistent with the following Council- approved objectives for rates and rate reviews: • Comply with legal requirements • Ensure revenue adequacy to fully meet system operating and capital needs • Encourage conservation • Provide equity and fairness between classes of customers • Result in rate structures that are easy to understand by our customers and easy to administer • Provide for ongoing review to facilitate rate stability In order to continue and expand the benefits of the volume based rate structure, and in response to changes in our customers service needs, Council has.approved changes to the residential solid waste services which offer greater flexibility and options for low volume producing customers, while eliminating the highest, least cost effective, six can premium level of service. In keeping with the above stated goals, a proposed rate structure has been developed for the modified residential refuse services. Additionally, a modified commercial refuse rate structure is proposed, which eliminates anomalies in the current rate structure which send conflicting messages relative to our solid waste goals and create inequities among service levels. For ease of review by Council, the remainder of this report will be broken into separate sections for a thorough discussion of the three recommended actions. �-y Council Agenda Report—Solid Waste Service and Rate Structure Changes Page 5 Section I. Residential Solid Waste Service Rate Structure: Recommendation summary - Provide conceptual approval of modifications to the residential solid waste service rate structure incorporating previously approved service options and in accordance with adopted rate structure and solid waste program goals. Background At the January 13" City Council meeting, Council concurred with the staff recommendation to modify the residential refuse service levels from the current three levels of service (orange bag, standard and premium) to four (orange bag, economy, standard and premium). Expanding the waste wheeler service options, by including a 32 gallon waste wheeler, and eliminating the 6 can premium service, replacing it with a 96 gallon waste wheeler service, allows refuse collection to be further automated. .Automation reduces the number of required refuse collection routes, decreases the number of personnel per truck from two to one and reduces the risk of injury to collection crews. Fewer injuries mean fewer worker's compensation claims,which ultimately leads to lower costs for refuse collection. Automation has already had an impact on collection and operational costs. Since the last base year rate application,SLG has reduced residential refuse collection labor hours from 17,400 annually to 13,100 annually. As previously stated, expanded automation of the collection system leads to increased efficiency and cost savings. Table 1. summarizes the changes to the residential refuse program services. Table 1. Residential Service Levels Current Service Volurne of Refuse New Service Level Volume of Refuse Level Orange Bag 132 gallons/bag Orange Bag 32 gallons/bag Economy 32 gallon waste wheeler Standard 1 64 gallon waste wheeler Standard 64 gallon waste wheeler I I Premium I 192gallons/owner supplied Premium 96 gallon waste wheeler cans With these previously approved service modifications in place, it is now necessary to revise the rate structure for these services such that we retain consistency in our message to conserve resources and recycle, and remain consistent with our other rate structure goals. a� Council Agenda Report=Solid Waste Service and Rate Structure Changes Page 6 Proposed Residential Rate Structure The proposed residential rate structure for the four levels of service maintains the relative relationship that exists between the current three levels of service. The primary goals identified for the residential refuse services and proposed rate structure are to: (1) encourage waste reduction and recycling; and (2) reduce refuse collection costs through increased participation in automated service options. The proposed rate structure was created in support of these and other solid waste and rate structure goals. The proposed rate structure is based on the following assumptions: I. The existing rate for Standard service is used as the baseline to determine the rate for the other levels of service. This rate will remain essentially unchanged from our current structure (this category includes the majority of our customers). 2. The rate for the new Economy service (32 gallon waste wheeler) will be set approximately equal to the current rate for orange bag customers using roughly one bag per week. 3. New Orange bag rates will be set such that those customers using three orange-bags per month will pay approximately the equivalent of the new economy service (32 gallon waste wheeler) while four bag per month customers will pay more for an equivalent volume but more costly to provide service, to encourage migration to the equivalent automated economy service. It should be noted that the average orange bag customer uses 2.5 bags per month based on San Luis Garbage Company statistics. 4. Following adjustment for customer migration to the new economy service, the recommended rate structure will be essentially revenue neutral. The current and proposed rate structure for residential solid waste services is shown in Table 2. Table 2. Residential Solid Waste Rate Structure PROPOSEDSERVICE LE%,T-L CURRENT SERVICE RATE SERVICE RATE Orange Bag $2.40/month $2.40/month (32 gallon bag) plus$1.20/bag plus$I.80/bag i Economy n/a j $7.90/month (32 gallon waste wheeler) I i Standard $15.75/month $15.80/month (64 gallon waste wheeler) Premium $21.45/month $23.70/month (6 cans,up to 192 gallons) I (96 gallon waste wheeler) �— e Council Agenda Report—Solid Waste Service and Rate Structure Changes Page 7 Under the rate structure scenario presented in Table 2, the Orange Bag level of service experiences an increase in the cost per bag and premium customers pay more for a reduced volume of refuse service. However, as shown in Table 3, the rate charged per volume (gallons) of refuse disposed is evenly dispersed except in the case of orange bags, which would cost slightly more, but also require a more costly level of service in terms of labor and associated costs. Table 3. Volume Charge SERVICE LEVEL SERVICE GALLONSPER COST PER RATE MONTH GALLON Orange Bag $7.80 96 $ .081 (assumes 3 bags per month) Economy $7.90 128 $ .062 Standard $15.80 256 $ .062 Premium $23.70 384 $ .062 It was not possible to align the volume rate of orange bags with the other service levels and also balance the goals of the residential rate structure (reducing overall refuse collection costs through automation, and encouraging waste reduction and recycling). Using the above rate structure, a customer placing three bags per month out for collection would pay $7.80 per month or slightly less than the economy service. A four bag per month customer would pay $9.60 per month or $1.70 more than an economy service customer for an equivalent volume of service. Because of collection inefficiencies which equate to increased collection costs, potential for injury when collecting the bags and negative environmental considerations associated with the disposal of the plastic bags themselves, staff believes there is justification for a slightly higher per volume charge for the orange bag service. The proposed rate structure does continue to recognize those exceptional customers who have reduced their level of required service to less than 3 bags per month through what could be considered still exceptionally low rates. As we view our current and proposed residential solid waste services programs and rate structures, we find that those customers who are participating in the lower levels of service (orange bag and economy) are still paying less than they were in 1988 for refuse services and are receiving the added community wide benefits of curbside recycling and green waste services. -7 Council Agenda Report—Solid Waste Service and Rate Structure Changes Page 8 For those customers requiring a level of service in excess of the new Premium (96 gal.) service level, it is recommended that additional waste wheelers of any size be available for a price equivalent to the per orange bag price ($1.80 per 32 gal. volume) times 4 collections per month. This will ensure that those customers requiring continuous service in excess of the premium service level remain with an automated collection service. For occasional volumes in excess of the customers desired service level, the orange bags would still be available. To allow flexibility in container choice for volumes less than 96 gallons, the price should remain equivalent to the previously discussed per volume cost identified in Table 3. For example, if a customer requiring Standard 64 gallon per week service desired to receive that service via two Economy 32 gallon waste wheelers instead of the larger 64 gallon waste wheeler because of space constraints in their side yard (a not uncommon scenario), their cost would be the same as the Standard 64 gallon service rate. Table 4. shows the proposed rate structure for additional containers in excess of the Premium service level. Table 4. Additional Containers "Premium Plus Service" Container , 32 Gallon $7.20 64 Gallon $14.40 96 Gallon $21.60 The proposed residential rate structure modifications are consistent with our previously stated solid waste and rate structure goals. It is intended to provide incentives for continued waste reduction, through volume based pricing, and efficient, cost effective service by creating incentives to move to an automated service level for all but the lowest producers of waste, who can still achieve significant benefit from the orange bag program. Alternatives to Proposed Residential Rate Structure Establish a rate for orange bag service which is equivalent to the volume pricing of other services. This alternative is not recommended as it provides limited incentive for orange bag customers using 4 bags or more per month to change to a more efficient automated service program. Council may choose to select this alternative if they feel that the possible convenience of a waste wheeler vs. an orange bag is adequate incentive to move these customers to an automated service program. �' Council Agenda Report—Solid Waste Service and Rate Structure Changes Page 9 Create an unbalanced volume based rate structure that provides even greater incentive to reduce waste for those customers at the higher service levels. This alternative, while attractive from a waste reduction standpoint, is not recommended as staff feels the proposed balanced volume based rate structure provides the most equitable and simple rate structure, without penalizing those who for other reasons may be unable to reduce their waste. Staff feels the proposed rate structure is fair, yet provides significant financial incentive for the high volume users to minimize their waste production. Section H. Commercial Refuse Rate Structure: Recommendation summary - Provide preliminary approval of modifications to the commercial refuse rate structure in accordance with adopted rate structure and solid waste program goals. Background The commercial rate structure has been known to contain anomalies which do not make sense from a cost of service standpoint. An example of these anomalies would be: a 4 yard dumpster being picked up six times per week (for $359), is actually cheaper than a six yard dumpster picked up 4 times per week (for $398). An equivalent volume, higher level of service, for less. Additionally, the rate structure has not been reviewed since we have established many of our recycling service programs. With Council direction on January 13, 1998 to create a commercial recycling fee structure, to be based in part on the volume and frequency commercial refuse rate structure, it became apparent that it would be necessary to modify the commercial refuse rate structure to eliminate the anomalies before developing the commercial recycling rate as directed by Council. Staff is recommending a true volume/frequency based rate structure as the most equitable and consistent with our adopted solid waste and rate structure goals. Proposed Commercial Rate Structure The proposed commercial refuse rate structure is based on the volume of refuse disposed (usually by the yard), frequency of collection (times per week) and an account administration cost. In the proposed volume based commercial rate structure, the incremental increase between levels of service, or volume of disposed refuse and the frequency of collection, will be the same for a given commercial service category. A portion of the proposed commercial refuse rate structure for the dumpster container service category is shown in Table 5. 02- / Council Agenda Report—Solid Waste Service and Rate Structure Changes Page 10 Table 5.* Proposed Commercial Volume Based Rate Structure SY 1 yard $50.00 $70.00 $90.00 $110.00 $130.00 $150.00 $170.00 j 2 yard $62.00 $94.00 $126.00 $158.00 $190.00 $222.00 $254.00 i 3 yard $74.00 $118.00 $162.00 $206.00 $250.00 $294.00 $334.00 I � � 1 *Partial Table Only-Complete proposed commercial rate structure included as Attachment—'). I Assumptions: Account Charge-$30.00 Trip Charge-$8.00 Disposal-$12.00/yard As indicated in the above table, the incremental increase between levels of service is based on the combination of volume and frequency of collection of refuse disposed. In reviewing the City's current commercial rate structure, the incremental increase between levels of service seem to be haphazard. The rationale used to determine the current cost for the various levels of service is unclear. The current commercial rate structure is shown in Attachment 1. In addition to the apparent inconsistencies in incremental cost increases, anomalies in the volume/frequency relationship have been highlighted to simplify review. These anomalies result in a higher frequency service for an equivalent total weekly volume. actually costing less than an equivalent total volume picked up less frequently. To correct the anomalies and incremental cost disparities between levels of service, the current commercial rate structure should be abandoned and a new structure developed as recommended based on volume and frequency as outlined in Table 5. When analyzing the rate impacts of the proposed rate structure on commercial customers, approximately half the commercial dumpster container service customers will experience rate increases while the other half will experience rate decreases. A majority of the rate decreases will occur in higher frequency and volume customers, which would appear to send the wrong pricing message for solid waste reduction when compared to the current rate structure, however is justified on the basis of cost of service versus the service provided. Additionally, the proposed commercial rate structure change is deemed necessary to establish the volume/frequency based commercial recycling rate structure discussed later in this report, if the commercial recycling volume/frequency based rate costs are to be based on a percentage of the commercial refuse rates as directed by Council in January. Otherwise the commercial recycling rate structure would contain the same incremental cost disparities and anomalies as the commercial refuse rate structure. Alternatives to the Recommended Commercial Rate Structure No Change - This alternative is not recommended as it will continue the current incremental cost disparities and service anomalies,which will only be exacerbated by future percentage increases to the rates. Additionally,the current rate structure is inconsistent with volume or "quantity based" user fee goals identified in our Source Reduction and Recycling Element. �-lb Council Agenda Report—Solid Waste Service and Rate Structure Changes Page 11 Provide a Volume Based Rate Structure that Places an Additional Cost Burden on Large Commercial Generators-This alternative is not recommended as in most cases those commercial customers who are large generators have little capacity to reduce their waste by nature of their business and it may be seen as a detriment to the City's economic development efforts. Additionally,staff feels a true volume/frequency based rate structure maintains the highest level of integrity and is most consistent with our rate structure goals. Section III. Commercial Recycling Rate Structure: Recommendation summary-Provide preliminary approval for implementation of a volume based commercial recycling fee to be set at 25% of the commercial refuse rate for a comparable volume, implementation of a base fee for commercial recycling program services, and a per bag fee for office paper and polystyrene collection. Background At their January 13te study session,Council considered alternatives for meeting anticipated revenue shortfalls in the 1998 base year rate application due to increased demands for commercial recycling services. From 1995,the commercial recycling customer base grew by about 50% and the number of routes increased from four to six. The labor hours expended on commercial recycling increased from 10,800 annually to 17,300 annually,an increase of nearly 60%. Following discussion of the four alternatives, listed below, Council stated their preference for a volume-based commercial recycling rate set at a percentage of the commercial refuse rate to encourage continued commercial recycling (alternative 2), with some support for a commercial base recycling fee(alternative 3). Alternatives as discussed at the January 13, 1998 Study Session 1. No change. Continue with the current integrated rate policy where increases are applied to all customer classes. 2. Volume-based CommercialRecyclingRate. Establish a commercial recycling collection rate based on the volume of material being collected. 3. Recycling Fee. Formulate a commercial recycling fee levied on every commercial account. 4. Service Cost Reduction. Change the commercial recycling services to place more responsibility on the customer. The preliminary information in the 1998 Base Year Rate Application indicates an approximate 3.2% shortfall in commercial revenues. Based on Council direction at the January 13, 1998 study session, it is staff's interpretation that Council intended this shortfall be accounted for through a commercial recycling fee program. With this 3.2% (approximately $150,000) shortfall as a Council Agenda Report—Solid Waste Service and Rate Structure Changes Page 12 preliminary target for revenues to be derived from commercial recycling fees, the proposed commercial recycling rate structure was developed to be consistent with Council direction and our other solid waste and rate structure goals. Proposed Commercial Recycling Rate Structure The proposed commercial recycling fee program is made up of three components: • a commercial recycling base charge of approximately $3.00 per month for basic recycling services of orange bin,corrugated cardboard< 1 yard per week,and green waste services; • a volume/frequency based commercial recycling fee for corrugated cardboard (>1 yard per week)set at 25%of the commercial refuse rates;and, • an approximate$0.85 per bag charge for collection of office paper and polystyrene. This proposed commercial recycling rate structure will provide cost recovery roughly equivalent to the revenue deficit attributable to commercial programs. It is staff's opinion that this proposed commercial recycling rate structure is consistent with Council's prior direction, is equitable based on the cost of services provided through the commercial recycling program, and continues to provide considerable financial incentives for commercial recycling. The complete proposed commercial recycling rate structure is included as Attachment 3. Included as Attachment 4 are examples of how the proposed commercial recycling rate structure will impact some selected commercial customers. Alternatives to the Recommended Commercial Recycling Rate Structure Alter the distribution of costs for commercial recycling from that proposed- Council may direct staff to alter the mix of revenue yield from any of the identified commercial recycling rates (base fee, volume based percentage, per bag office paper and polystyrene) to increase or decrease the rates for an identified program. For example,changes could be made to increase the cost recovery via the base recycling fee which would reduce the needed recovery from the volume based rate programs for cardboard or office paper,etc.. This alternative is not recommended as staff feels that the proposed rate structure provides a fair distribution of cost and an equitable cost recovery program which is consistent with our solid waste and rate structure goals and prior Council direction. Staff is prepared to assist Council in discussion of any possible mix they wish to consider. Recover the total revenue shortfall through an across the board percentage rate increase - This alternative is not recommended as it has been previously considered by Council at the January 13, 1998 study session and was rejected. Additionally, it does not create any mechanism for cost recovery from those commercial customers receiving a substantial financial benefit from the commercial recycling services. 02'�Z- Council Agenda Report—Solid Waste Service and Rate Structure Changes Page 13 REPORT WRAP-UP: Conclusions Approval of the recommendations provided in this report will continue the City's progress in developing a solid waste services program that achieves compliance with our diversion mandates and programmatic requirements of AB 939, consistent with our rate structure goals, and the goals associated with providing cost effective, quality, solid waste services with flexibility and a high degree of customer choice. Actions to Follow Following Council approval of the rate structures for residential refuse services and commercial refuse and recycling services, staff will present the proposed structures to the public and commercial customers for additional input. Staff plans to meet with the BIA, Chamber and Manufacturers Association as well as hold a town meeting in late April. Staff will then return to Council with the community input and final recommendations regarding rate structures in May, prior to applying the revised structures to the 1998 base year rate analysis. Staff anticipates returning to Council with the 1998 base year rate application and final rate recommendations in June. CONCURRENCES: San Luis Garbage Company concurs with the recommended actions. FISCAL IMPACT: Approval of the recommended actions will put into place a residential refuse rate structure, a commercial refuse rate structure and a commercial recycling rate structure that will be capable of meeting the revenue needs of our solid waste service programs. It will not at this time set the precise rates for those services or implement the rate increases to be presented with the 1998 base year rate application. However, the commercial revenue shortfalls identified in the preliminary 1998 rate review application which may be attributed to commercial recycling services have been considered in the development of the proposed commercial recycling fee program. ALTERNATIVES FOR IMPLEMENTATION: Phased implementation - If Council so directs,staff could develop a phased implementation of the recommended actions over several years. This alternative is not recommended as all of the recommended actions are required to fully implement the City's solid waste reduction goals and establish rate structures consistent with our rate structure goals. Phasing would be difficult to integrate with our rate setting and review process, though not impossible. Additionally, the recommended actions are needed to accomplish the residential service modifications and commercial revenue recovery as directed by Council on January 13, 1998. Council Agenda Report—Solid Waste Service and Rate Structure Changes Page 14 ATTACHMENTS Attachment 1 - Current Commercial Refuse Rate Structure w/highlighted anomalies. Attachment 2 - Proposed Commercial Refuse Rate Structure Attachment 3 - Proposed Commercial Recycling Rate Structure Attachment 4 - Impacts of Commercial Recycling Rates on Selected Customers Attachment 5 - January 13, 1998 Council Agenda Report CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO Attachment 1 RATE SCHEDULE FOR INTEGRATED SOLID WASTE ACTIVITIES January 1, 1997 MULTI-UNIT RESIDENTIAL DUMPSTER CONTAINERS (PER MONTH) size of COLLECTIONS PER WEEK container (cubic yards) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 $64.00 $93.00 $112.00 $155.00 $193.00 $216.00 $277.00 1.5 $73.00 $106.00 $133.00 $174.00 $209.00 $226.00 $319.00 2 $84.00 $119.00 $155.00 $193.00 $224.00 $240.00 $364.00 3 $104.00 $145.00 $199.00 $256.00 $334.00 $360.00 $483.00 4 $123.00 $186.00 $262.00 $355.00 $444.00 $480.00 $598.00 6 $168.00 $257.00 $360.00 $531.00 $611.00 $675.00 $798.00 8 $216.00 $317.00 $480.00 $708.00 $882.00 $956.00 $1,079.00 The rates stated above for dumpster containers shall include the monthly container rental fee. COMMERCIAL GARBAGE CANS (PER MONTH) number COLLECTIONS PER WEEK of cans 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 $14.00 $23.00 $34.00 $38.00 $40.00 $44.00 $49.00 2 $17.00 $34.00 $44.00 $48.00 $51.00 $57.00 $66.00 3 $22.00 $40.00 $54.00 $58.00 $63.00 $66.00 $78.00 4 $25.00 $46.00 $64.00 $68.00 $74.00 $80.00 $94.00 5 $32.00 $51.00 $72.00 $79.00 $87.00 $94.00 $112.00 6 $35.00 $58.00 $80.00 $90.00 $100.00 $110.00 $129.00 7 $39.00 $66.00 $88.00 $102.00 $114.00 $123.00 $145.00 8 $43.00 $72.00 $98.00 $112.00 $126.00 $140.00 $162.00 9 $47.00 $78.00 $106.00 $121.00 $137.00 $153.00 $182.00 10 $50.00 $84.00 $115.00 $134.00 $152.00 $168.00 $197.00 Maximum volume and weight per garbage can:35 gallons and 80 pounds Additional charge per can per collection:$4.30 Rate Schedule for Integrated Solid Waste Activities- 1/1/97 Page 2 COMMERCIAL WASTE WHEELER CONTAINERS (PER MONTH) number COLLECTIONS PER WEEK of containers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 $23.001 $34.00 $40.00 54.00 $67.00 $75.00 $66.00 ftw 2 $44.00 $65.00 0 ODT/- $193.00 3 $50.00 V3 0 /$128:00 $145.00 $159.00 $222.00 a $58.00 �$tOyeD�$13a.00 $156.00 $167.00 $252.00 5 $66.00 $9yoe� $122.00 $156.00 $194.00 $209.00 $293.00 s $72.00 $102.00 slaoa0� $178.00 $230.00. $260.00 $335.00 7 $79.00 $114.00 3160.00 $214.00 $270.00 $292.00 $374.00 8 $87.00 $129.004' $183.00 $246.00 $309.00 $334.00 $415.00 9 $94.00 P40.00 $198.00 $277.00 $337.00 $366.00 $498.00 10 $102.00 $153.00 $216.00 $309.00 $367.00 $399.00 $580.00 11 $110.00 $166.00 $232.00 $338.00 $395.00 $434.00 $664.00 12 $117.00 $178.00 $250.00 $368.00 $425.00 $468.00 $748.00 In addition to the collection rates stated above for waste wheeler containers,there shall be charged a monthly rental fee for each container. COMMERCIAL DUMPSTER CONTAINERS (PER MONTH) size of COLLECTIONS PER WEEK container (cubic yards) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 $47.00 $71.00 $84.00 $115.00 $145.00 $162.00 $209.00 1.5 $55.00 $80.00 $100.00 $130.00 $158.00 $170.00 $240.00 2 $64.00 $88.00 $116.00 $144.00 $166. $182.00 $272.00 3 $78.00 '' 4i7 7U.UU $152.00 $193.00 $250.00 $270.00 $361.00 a $94.001 $197.00 $267.00 $334. $360.00 $450.00 s $270.00 $398.00 0 $507.00 $598.00 8 $239.00 $360.00 531.00 $664.00 $718.00 $809.00 The rates stated above for dumpster containers shall include the monthly container rental fee. Rate Schedule for Integrated Solid Waste Activities- 1/1/97 Page 3 UNSCHEDULED EXTRA COLLECTIONS FOR COMMERCIAL CUSTOMERS AND MULTI-UNIT RESIDENTIAL DUMPSTER CUSTOMERS $16.00 1 cubic yard(minimum charge) $21.00 2 cubic yards $30.00 3 cubic yards $40.00 4 cubic yards SINGLE FAMILY and MULTI-UNIT RESIDENTIAL VOLUME-BASED RATES ECONOMY RATE $2.40/month for collection service $1.20 per special 33-gallon bag distributed by San Luis Garbage Company (Payable when bags are issued) STANDARD RATE $15.75 per month for one wastewheeler container collected once each week PREMIUM RATE $21.45 per month for up to one cubic yard(six standard garbage cans)collected once each week Maximum volume and weight per garbage cart:35 gallons and 80 pounds SERVICE AWAY FROM THE STREET CURB $5.40 additional per month per can or container EXTRA COLLECTIONS ON REGULAR COLLECTION DAY WITH GARBAGE TRUCK $2.20 per standard garbage can or equivalent volume (Not available for economy service customers) LATE MAKEUP COLLECTIONS WITH GARBAGE TRUCK(phone call required) $5.40 per trip plus$2.20 per extra garbage can or equivalent volume (Not available for economy service customers) c;z Rate:Schedule for Integrated Solid Waste Activities- 111197 •Page 4 EXTRA COLLECTIONS WITH PICKUP OR-FLATBED TRUCK(phone call required)• $12.00'per trip plus: $2.20 per garbage can or equivalent volume(amounts over-six cans by quotation] $3.00,per white good4fticle(once a month) .$3.15,per piece of furniture $1.70 per mattress or pozspring - (Economy service customers must pay in advance.) city of san Luis oBlspo Attachment 2 puoposea 199s iiate schedule foiz intecizatea sola waste activities MULTI-UNIT RESIDENTIAL DUMPSTER CONTAINERS(PER MONTH) Size of COLLECTIONS PER WEEK container (cubic yards) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 $57.00 $83.00 $110.00 $136.00 $163.00 $189.00 $216.00 1.5 $66.00 $102.00 $137.00 $173.00 $209.00 $245.00 $281.00 2 $75.00 $120.00 $165.00 $210.00 $255.00 $300.00 $346.00 3 $94.00 $157.00 $221.00 $284.00 $348.00 $412.00 $475.00 4 $112.00 $194.00 $276.00 $359.00 $441.00 $523.00 $605.00 6 $149.00 $268.00 $388.00 $507.00 $626.00 $745.00 $865.00 The rates shown above include the monthly container rental fee and are the same for bins and garwoods, when the volume is identical. COMMERCIAL GARBAGE CANS (PER MONTH) Number COLLECTIONS PER WEEK of cans 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 $14.00 $22.00 $30.00 $38.00 $46.00 $54.00 $62.00 2 $18.00 $28.00 $38.00 $48.00 $58.00 $68.00 $78.00 3 $22.00 $34.00 $46.00 $58.00 $70.00 $82.00 $94.00 4 $26.00 $40.00 $54.00 $68.00 $82.00 $96.00 $110.00 5 $30.00 $46.00 $62.00 $78.00 $94.00 $110.00 $126.00 6 $34.00 $52.00 $70.00 $88.00 $106.00 $124.00 $142.00 7 $38.00 $58.00 $78.00 $98.00 $118.00 $138.00 $158.00 8 $42.00 $64.00 $86.00 $108.00 $130.00 $152.00 $174.00 9 $46.00 $70.00 $94.00 $118.00 $142.00 $166.00 $190.00 Maximum volume and weight per garbage can: 35 gallons and 80 pounds Additional charge per can per collection: $3.00 �r� Proposed Rate Schedule for Integrated Solid Waste Activities- 1998 Page 2 COMMERCIAL WASTE WHEELER CONTAINERS (PER MONTH) Number COLLECTIONS PER WEEK of containers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 $23.00 $38.00 $53.00 $68.00 $83.00 $98.00 $113.00 2 $37.00 $59.00 $81.00 $103.00 $125.00 $147.00 $169.00 3 $51.00 $80.00 $109.00 $138.00 $167.00 $196.00 $225.00 4 $65.00 $101.00 $137.00 $173.00 $209.00 $245.00 $281.00 5 $79.00 $122.00 $165.00 $208.00 $251.00 $294.00 $337.00 6 $93.00 .$143.00 $193.00 $243.00 $293.00 $343.00 $393.00 7 $107.00 $169.00 $221.00 $278.00 $335.00 $392.00 $449.00 8 $121.00 $185.00 $249.00 $313.00 $377.00 $441.00 $505.00 9 $135.00 $206.00 $277.00 $348.00 $419.00 $490.00 $561.00 In addition to the collection rates stated above for waste wheeler containers, there shall be charged a monthly rental fee for each container. COMMERCIAL DUMPSTER CONTAINERS(PER MONTH) Size of COLLECTIONS PER WEEK container (cubic yards) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 $50.00 $70.00 $90.00 $109.00 $129.00 $149.00 $169.00 1.5 $56.00 $82.00 $107.00 $133.00 $159.00 $185.00 $210.00 2 $62.00 $93.00 $125.00 $157.00 $188.00 $220.00 $252.00 3 $74.00 $117.00 $161.00 $204.00 $248.00 $291.00 $335.00 4 $85.00 $141.00 $196.00 $251.00 $307.00 $362.00 $418.00 6 $109.00 $188.00 $267.00 $346.00 $425.00 $504.00 $583.00 8 $133.00 $235.00 $338.00 $441.00 $544.00 $646.00 $749.00 The rates shown above include the monthly container rental fee and are the same for bins and garwoods, when the volume is identical. Proposed Rate Schedule for Integrated Solid Waste Activities- 1998 Page 3 UNSCHEDULED EXTRA COLLECTIONS FOR COMMERCIAL CUSTOMERS AND MULTI-UNIT RESIDENTIAL DUMPSTER CUSTOMERS $23.00 1 cubic yard (minimum charge) $30.00 2 cubic yards $37.00 3 cubic yards $44.00 4 cubic yards SINGLE FAMILY and MULTI-UNIT RESIDENTIAL VOLUME-BASED RATES ORANGE BAG RATE $2.40/month for collection service $1.80 per special 33-gallon bag-payable when bags are issued. ECONOMY RATE $7.90 per month for one 32 gallon wastewheeler container collected once each week STANDARD RATE $15.80 per month for one wastewheeler container collected once each week PREMIUM RATE $23.70 per month for one wastewheeler container collected once each week Maximum volume and weight per garbage can: 35 gallons and 80 pounds PREMIUM PLUS RATE $7.20 per month for additional 32 gallon wastewheeler container collected once each week $14.40 per month for additional 64 gallon wastewheeler container collected once each week $21.60 per month for additional 96 gallon wastewheeler container collected once each week SERVICE AWAY FROM THE STREET CURB $5.40 additional per month per can or container LATE MAKEUP COLLECTIONS WITH GARBAGE TRUCK(phone call required) $8.00 per trip plus charges identified above for any extra containers or equivalent volume Additional charge per can per collection: $3.00 2 �r Proposed.RateSchedule for Integrated Solid Waste Activities- 1998. Page 4 EXTRA COLLECTIONS WITH PICKUP OR FLATBED TRUCK(phone ca.H required) $12.00 per trip plus: $3.00 per garbage can or equivalent volume (amounts over six cans by quotation_) $3:00 per white good article(once a month) $3.00 per piece of furniture $3.00 per mattress or boxspring (Economy service customers must pay in advance) city Of Safi LUIS OBISpO Attachment 3 pRoposea 199s Rate schedule foR commeRcial Recyctmq activities BASE CHARGE FOR COMMERCIAL RECYCLING All commercial customers will pay $3.00 per month for commercial recycling services. This charge includes all services except collection of cardboard in excess of one yard once a week; collection of white office paper; and collection of polystyrene. CARDBOARD COLLECTION COMMERCIAL DUMPSTER CONTAINERS (PER MONTH) Size of COLLECTIONS PER WEEK container (cubic yards) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 Included $17.50 $22.50 $27.25 $32.25 $37.25 $42.25 1.5 $14.00 $20.50 $26.75 $33.25 $39.75 $46.25 $52.50 2 $15.50 $23.25 $31.25 $39.25 $47.00 $55.00 $63.00 3 $18.50 $29.25 $40.25 $51.00 $62.00 $72.75 $83.75 4 $21.25 $35.25 $49.00 $62.75 $76.75 $90.50 $104.50 6 $27.25 $47.00 $66.75 $86.50 $106.25 $126.00 $145.75 8 $33.25 $58.75 $84.50 $110.25 $136.00 $161.50 $187.25 The rates shown above include the monthly container rental fee and are the same for bins and garwoods, when the volume is identical. 02 Commercial Recycling Rate Schedule Page 2 WHITE OFFICER PAPER COLLECTION The charge for collection of each bag of white office paper is$0.85. POLYSTYRENE The charge for collection of each bag of polystyrene is$0.85. � -zy Attachment 4 Impacts of Commercial Recycling Rates on Selected Customers . "I yeling Disposal Disposal Frequency Fee Monthly Fee Annual Monthlv Annual Cost Cost Cost Cost Pizza 1 yard $17.50 $210.00 $70.00 $840.00 Restaurant 2z/week Stereo Store 1.5 yards $26.75 $321.00 $107.00 $19284.00 3z/week Downtown 2 yards $55.00 $660.00 $220.00 $29640.00 Retail Center 6z/week Manufactur- 32 bags/ $108.80 $19414.40 $435.20* $59657.60* ing Office week City of SLO 102 bags/ $375.70 $49508 $19502.00* $18,030.00* week Note: Currently, commercial customers do not pay for the recycling services. The disposal cost columns indicate what the customers would pay if there was no commercial recycling program and all material was disposed and billed as part of their refuse service. * Based on the assumption that the recycling rate is 25% of the refuse rate. ATfAMEW 5 council ° 7oh l3, l 55$ j Agenba nepom CITY O F SAN LU I S O B I S P O FROM: John Moss,Utilities Directo / — Prepared By: Ron Munds,Utilities ConsKwation Coordinator SUBJECT: Residential Solid Waste Service Levels and the Commercial Recycling Program CAO RECOMMENDATION Consider a report concerning residential solid waste service levels, the commercial recycling program and provide direction to staff on these issues. REPORT-IN-BRIEF With the passage of Assembly Bill 939 in 1989 which requires all cities and counties to reduce the amount of waste going to landfills by 50%,the City's solid waste programs have evolved significantly to achieve this goal. The result of the City solid waste management efforts has been a 37%reduction in solid waste going to the landfill in 1996. With increased regulation and changing technology in the field of solid waste collection, processing and disposal, the City must now look to the future and analyze collection and processing alternatives which will provide cost effective service and meet the mandated diversion requirements. In an effort to control residential refuse collection cost,San Luis Garbage Company(SLG)has instituted automated collection inmost areas of the City. The goals of this collection method are to reduce a refuse collection route,decrease the number of personnel per truck from two to one and reduce the risk of injury to the collection crews thereby decreasing worker's compensation claims. Currently,Orange Bag and Premium Service customers can not be collected by the automated trucks. Staff is proposing adding a thirty gallon waste wheeler as an option to the Orange Bag and eliminating the six can Premium service by changing the highest volume of service to a ninety-six gallon waste wheeler which can be collected by the automated trucks. By approving the expanded waste wheeler service options,SLG will be able to automate additional customers which will work toward the goals previously mentioned. A commercial recycling program was established in 1991. This coincided with the opening of the Tank Farm Road material processing facility. Currently,the program services about 1,500 commercial establishments and recycles approximately 4,100 tons of material. Though the program is highly successful,it is labor intensive because of the level of service currently provided. The key components of the commercial recycling program are the collection of office paper and cardboard. Four alternatives have been formulated to deal with the cost of the service versus the level of service provided. Staff has concluded the best solution is to continue with the current integrated rate policy where rate increases are applied to all customer classifications but work with Council Agenda Report—Solid Waste Services Page 2 SLG to analyze collection practices which will reduce cost but not discourage participationby commercial customers in the recycling program. DISCUSSION Backa rotmd In 1989,the State legislature passed into law Assembly Bill 939 which required all cities and counties to reduce the amount of waste going to landfills by 50%by the year 2000 or face the possibility of civil penalties. Though the City has provided curbside recycling since 1977 (contracted with San Luis Garbage Company), the mandatory reduction requirements of AB 939 signified a major change in focus of the City's recycling program and solid waste services. In order to meet the mandated diversion requirements, during 1990 the City intensified its recycling efforts by expanding the materials collected and promoting the program to both residential and commercial customers. Also in 1990, the City shifted to a volume based rate structure by adding an Orange Bag level of service for low garbage producing customers. Additional materials were added to the recyclable list in 1995 and in 1996 a green waste collection program was instituted. On the policy side, in 1994, the City adopted the Rate Setting Afanual for Integrated Solid Waste Rates. The manual provides a guide for the City and the franchisee to prepare and approve adjustments to integrated solid waste management rates. Additionally in that year,the City adopted the Source Reduction and Recycling Element (SRRE), Solid Waste Generation Study, Household Hazardous Waste Element,Non Disposal Facility Element, Regional Siting Element, Regional Summary Plan and approved the Joint Powers agreement establishing the Integrated Waste Management Authority. The result of the City solid waste management efforts has been a 37% reduction in solid waste going to the landfill based on the City's 1990 base year calculations as reported to the State. Furthermore, the San Luis Obispo Integrated Waste Management Authority (IWMA) touts the City's programs as being the model for other communities in the county to follow to meet the 50% reduction mandate by the year 2000. With increased regulation and changing technology in the field of solid waste collection, processing and disposal, the City must now look to the future and analyze collection and processing alternatives which will provide cost effective service and meet the mandated diversion requirements. The Future of Solid Waste Services In the near future;staff will be bringing the base year,solid waste rate application from San Luis Garbage Company(SLG)to the Council for consideration. A base year application projects costs of sen•ice and operations for three years. The Utilities Department has formed a committee to a-a7 Council Agenda Report—Solid Waste Services Page 3 review the rate application. The committee members are: 1. Bill Worrell,Manager of theIWMA 2. Patricia Goldman,County's Auditor's Office 3." Carolyn Dominguez,Accounting Manager 4. John Moss,Utilities Director 5. Sue Baasch,Administrative Analyst 6. Ron Munds,Utilities Conservation Coordinator Prior to Council examining the rate application,a Council discussion regarding modifications to residential service levels and the commercial recycling program would be beneficial to ensure the base year analysis reflects the desired service levels. Residential Service Levels As previously mentioned, the City established a volume based rate structure in 1990. Currently there are three levels of residential service as shown in Table 1: -z-Service evel:.. :Container Size in Gallons as omers Orange Bag 32 gallons/bag 3,600 Standard 64 gallon waste wheeler 5,700 Premium up to 180 gallons(owner supplied 185 cans) Table 1 In an effort to control refuse collection cost, SLG has instituted automated collection in most areas of the City. The goals of this collection method are to reduce refuse collection routes,decrease the number of personnel per truck from two to one and reduce the risk of injury to the collection crews thereby decreasing worker's compensation claims.As indicated in Table 1, 98% of the City's solid waste customers either subscribe to the Standard or Orange Bag levels of service. Since Orange Bag and Premium service customers can not be collected by an automated truck, staff is proposing adding a thirty-two gallon waste wheeler as an option to the Orange Bag and eliminating the six can Premium service by changing the highest volume of service to a ninety-six gallon waste wheeler. It is not proposed to eliminate the Orange Bag service option at this time,but monitor the migration of customers to the more convenient thirty-two gallon waste wheeler service. Council Agenda Report—Solid Waste Services Page 4 Additionally,to increase flexibility for our residential customers to "customize" their service level, it is suggested that additional waste wheeler rates be established to accommodate varying refuse disposal needs. For instance,if a customer has a ninety-six gallon waste wheeler and find they need additional disposal capacity,set a rate that allows them to add a thirty-three,sixty-four or ninety-six gallon container to their service. At four community meetings the Utilities Department held in 1996, the public attending expressed that they were generally satisfied with the solid waste service levels offered and the service provided by SLG. Those that subscribed to Orange Bag service did say they enjoyed the economy of this service level but the bags were cumbersome and prone to breaking if filled inc6rrectly or with too much material. On the collection side, SLG has reported incidents of employee injury due to sharp objects protruding from the bags and back injury due to excessive weight and the fact that there is no easy way to lift the bags. Many Orange Bag customers in attendance said they would consider changing to a waste wheeler service if such service was priced comparable to the amount paid for placing one bag per week at the curb. Others who place less than one bag per week out for collection were not so inclined. By approving the expanded waste wheeler service options,SLG will be able to automate additional customers which will work toward the goals previously mentioned. Additionally, the proposed changes will support the City's adopted SRRE which states in Volume 1, Section 3.6.5 that the City will analyze variable can rates which put the cost burden on the second and third levels of service and consider adding a"mini-can" rate. All this will ultimately serve to reduce the cost of service. Table 2 shows the proposed residential service structure: � r • Orange Bag 32 gallons/bag Economy . 32 gallon waste wheeler Standard 64 gallon waste wheeler High Volume 96 gallon waste wheeler Table 2 The intent of the proposed changes are to provide flexibility to our customers but move toward a more efficient collection system in an effort to control future costs. Currently, it costs an Orange Bag customer who places one bag at the curb each week $7.20 per month for service. SLG has proposed that the rate for the thirty-two gallon waste wheeler be set between$8 and$10. If Council chooses to move in this direction,a final decision on the rate for the proposed levels of service will be part of the review of the base year rate applicationat a future meeting. Sugsested Direction: Direct staff to include in the solid waste rate application review the addition of a thirty-two gallon waste wheeler level of service, eliminate the current Premium service and direct staff to return with a rate structure for the Orange Bag and 32, 64, 96 gallon waste wheeler � OT C? Council Agenda Report—Solid Waste Services Page 5 service levels, as well as the additional waste wheeler option as part of the base year rate application review. Commercial Recycling The City required SLG to establish a commercial recycling program in 1991. This coincided with opening of the Tank Farm Road material processing facility. Currently,the program services about 1,500 commercial establishments and recycles approximately 4,100 tons of materials. Though the program is considered a very successful component of the overall recycling program and instrumental in achieving the City's AB 939 goals, it is an expensive program because of the high level of service currently provided to our customers. The purpose of this section is to review the current program and determine if there are any changes or adjustments to the program or system of fees Council would like included in the review of the base year solid waste rate application. The key components of the commercial recycling program are the collection of office paper and cardboard both of which are labor intensive under the current system. When SLG began its commercial recycling program in 1991, the program utilized two people, one commercial cardboard driver and one white office paper collection person. Currently,SLG has eight full time employees designated to the commercial recycling program which collects cardboard,office paper, mixed paper and co-mingled materials such as aluminum and plastics. The staffing increases are directly related to the increase in service requirements from the commercial sector and the significant increase in volume of material collected. This increase in material volume collected is exactly the goal of the program,however there is a down side. The cost to provide this expanding service has grown while revenues which help offset the cost of collection from the sale of recycled material has declined. The following table illustrates variance between the tons processed versus the revenue for the sale of recyclable materials for the past three years: Residential Tons 2,443 2,899 3,246 Commercial Tons 3,110 3,690 4,130 Material Sales j Revenue $929,252 $524,870 $530,260 Table 3 �-3D Council Agenda Report—Solid Waste Services Page 6 While the sales revenue from recycle material have decreased by 43% during this period, the amount of recycle material that has been collected and processed from both residential and commercial customers has increased by approximately 25%. The focus of the following discussion is to examine an inequity between the cost of service versus the service provided. Businesses which aggressively recycle typically can lower their level of refuse service and/or frequency of pick-up thereby decreasing their monthly refuse bill. These same businesses often require more frequent recyclable material collection which comes at no direct additional cost. Essentially these businesses are creating the same amount of waste but are able to reduce their cost by shifting the material to the recycling side of the collection equation. While this scenario is achieving the City's solid waste reductions goals, the effect of this trend is that commercial refuse collection revenues from rates have not increased as projected. The following table illustrates the trend in commercial refuse collection rate revenue for the past three years: Numberof Commercial 1,524 1,609 1,670 Accounts Revenue $2,010,757 $1,924,205 $2,100,204 Table 4 Though revenues recovered slightly in 1997,the dollar amount is not keeping pace with expected income based on the rate increase enacted during that time and the increase in number of customers to be serviced. The above numbers indicate that while the customer base between 1995 and 1997 increased by approximately 9%,revenues only grew by about 4%. An example of the discrepancy of service versus cost of collection is a downtown clothing store which has seven day a week collection of refuse and six day a week collection of cardboard. Though the store produces an equivalent volume of material as it did before recycling,their payment for service has been significantly reduced. Additionally,it takes the recycling crew more time to load the cardboard than the refuse crew to collect the garbage thereby increasing the actual labor cost. A similar situation exists in the office paper collection program. Many large office complexes have been able to significantly reduce their cost of refuse service by recycling office and mixed paper. The current paper collection practice is to service each individual office whether small or large. Though this provides a high level of service and encourages participation in the program,it is labor intensive. As previously stated,both of these programs are assisting in achieving the City's goals � 31 Council Agenda Report—Solid Waste Services Page 7 in encouraging recycling but do come with a cost,which is then reflected in the integrated solid waste rate. Commercial RecyclingAlternatives The solid waste rate review committee developed four alternatives to the current system,along with the advantages and disadvantages of each option,for Council to consider regarding the commercial recycling program. The alternatives are: 1. No Change: continue with the current integrated rate policy where increases are applied to all customer classes. 2. Volume based Commercial Recycling Rate: establish a commercial recycling collection rate based on the volume of material being collected. It was discussed by the committee that this rate could possibly be set at one half the refuse collection rate in order to continue the economic incentive to recycle. 3. Recycling Fee: formulate a commercial recycling fee levied on every commercial account. This could include both a flat fee to address fixed costs of collection plus variable volume based rate for large producers of recyclable material. 4. Service Cost Reduction: change the commercial recycling services to place more responsibility on the customer. The customer would be required to place the recyclable materials in a central collection location or in containers approved by SLG. . The following is a listing of the advantages and disadvantages for each alternative: 1. .No Change: continue.with the current integrated rate policy where increases are applied to all customer classes. Advantages: • Maintains the current service levels of the City's successful commercial recycling system. • Simple to implement and understand. • Avoids rate structure changes that other options may involve. • Achieves revenue goals. • Supports community-wide goals of reducing solid waste going to the landfill. • Extends the rate increase to all customers thus lessening impact to a specific customer class. Disadvantages: • Does not address cost of service issues. • Does not solve the issue of continuing decline in commercial refuse collection revenue. • Does not separate refuse collection from recycling operations. �-3�. Council Agenda Report—Solid Waste Services Page 8 2. Volume based Recycling Rate: establish a commercial recycling collection rate based on the volume of material being collected. It was discussed by the committee that this rate could possibly be one half the refuse collection rate to continue the economic incentive to recycle. Advantages: • Addresses cost of service issues. • Continues to provide an economic incentive to recycle. Disadvantages: • May increase competition for lucrative large volume recycling customers thus leading to a reduction in revenue from those accounts and compounding the current revenue problems. • Could decrease the .amount of recycling by commercial customers because of perceived increased cost. • More complex and potentially more difficult for customers to understand. 3. Recycling Fee: formulate a commercial recycling fee levied on every commercial account. This could include both a flat fee to address fixed costs of collection plus variable volume based rate for large producers of recyclable material. Advantages: • Simple to understand and implement. • Reduces the rate impact on residential customers. • Encourages small recyclable material producers to participate in the program. Disadvantages: • Potentially not equitable for all customers thus not addressing cost of service issues. • Perception that the fee is a tax. • Possible legal implications. 4. Service Cost Reduction: change the commercial recycling services to place more responsibility on the customer. Advantages: • Potentially help control rate increases by reducing the costs of providing services. • Shift some costs from the solid waste services provider to the customer . • Will enable staff and SLG to re-examine how we are currently providing commercial recycling services. Council Agenda Report—Solid Waste Services Page 9 Disadvantages: • Perception that service levels have decreased. •. Potential increased cost to the customer to participate in the program because of increased staff requirements. • Possibility of decreased participation in the recycling program. • Uncertainty of affects on costs or participation, would require staff time to evaluate and develop program changes. Suggested Direction: Continue with the current integrated rate policy (Alternative 1) and direct staff to work with SLG to determine if service cost reductions are possible without affecting the effectiveness of the program(Alternative 4). CONCURRENCES The rate review committee concurs with the recommendations made in this report. FISCAL IMPACT There is no direct fiscal impact associated with the recommendations made in this report. Staff will return to Council with the base year solid waste rate application in the near future, at which time Council will consider the impacts to refuse rates of any proposed service changes. �ay PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT PLAN APRIL 1998 Michael D. McCluskey, Director of Public Works Prepared by: Wayne Peterson, City Engineer Joe McDermott, Streets Supervisor Public Works Department City of San Luis Obispo PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT PLAN Table of Contents ExECUTIVE SUMMARY 1 INTRODUCTION 4 Pavement Management - The Basics History of Pavement Management- San Luis Obispo PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT-DESIGN ELEMENTS 6 Pavement is a Valuable Asset The Design Life of Pavement How Pavements Age and Are Rated Pavement Condition-The Public View PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE 9 What is a Pavement Management Software Program? How Staff Chose the New Software? How did we install the new system? How Does MicroPaver Work? ANALYSIS-HOW DOES THE CITY'S SYSTEM STAND UP? 12 System Description Street Condition Analysis Effects of Good Design Standards Effects of inadequate design standards, i.e. bus route impacts The Street Sealing Program Summary of Current Condition Total Value of Deficiency Funding levels for Pavement Management PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT PROGRAM RECOMMENDATIONS 20 Policy Recommendations Pavement Condition Level Roadway Design Criteria Implementation Plan Program Components RECOMMENDED PROGRAM FUNDING LEVELS 28 Recommended Funding for Global Maintenance Recommended Funding for Major Maintenance Recommended Funding for Program Management Recommended Staffing for Program Management Funding Summary FINANCING THE PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT PLAN 33 APPENDIX A Procedures followed to create the 1997 pavement inventory B 1997-8 Cal-Trans Partnership Paving Program C Five Year City Wide Work Program- with $1,500,000 major maintenance and $500,000 global maintenance programs D Bus Route Impacts to Surface Condition E Existing Pavement Deficiency F Condition - Central Business District - $150,000 per year G Annual Work Plan of integrating all Pavement Management Programs H Budget to raise overall PCI I Pavement Maintenance Areas Plan J One Year Work Program-with $4,000,000 combined major maintenance and global maintenance EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In July of 1995, the City Council adopted an objective to complete a new Pavement Management Plan which would replace the previous Plan adopted in 1987. City staff has diligently pursued completion of this objective and this Plan represents a culmination of those efforts. The street system of the City of San Luis Obispo is important: it is the City's single most valuable asset; it offers an immediate impression to visitors and residents about the quality of life here in San Luis Obispo. Protecting and enhancing this asset is the fundamental task of a good pavement management program, and a manifestation of good City government. The heart of a program is a computer software program which can analyze the conditions of various street segments via special algorithms and then makes maintenance recommendations according to the available budget. The City purchased MicroPaver, a program originally written by the Army Corps of Engineers to maintain military bases. This program is made available to the public via the American Public Works Department and the University of Illinois. It is continually updated and maintained by the Corps and is in use throughout the United States and worldwide. Every street in the City was broken into multiple segments for data analysis; field inspected and input into the program. Analysis shows a current value of the City's street system at $43 Million with a potential total value of $60 Million. With a deficiency of nearly $17 Million to correct, the pavement management program question becomes: "Is it possible to achieve total value, and if not, what is the best strategy to keep the system from deteriorating further and if possible, to improve the system?" It is the opinion of this Plan that, given the financial status of cities in California, it is not possible to fund a program with an objective to achieve 100% of the potential street system value. Therefore this Plan recommends a comprehensive program which will, over a period of about ten years, raise the value of the system to approximately 80% of its potential value. A street system with this value will have a much better appearance, experience less complaints and provide a smoother ride for the public. This Plan incorporates many of the elements of the 1987 Plan but takes a more pro-active role in maintaining the street system - particularly in the Downtown. New techniques for pavement management have emerged since 1987 and many are still in the research stage. This Plan encourages the selective use of appropriate new technologies that will make pavement management even more cost effective and efficient. Is this Pavement Management Plan perfect? The answer is no. Just as the 1987 Plan was based on an a just emerging pavement management software program, this Plan assumes that local road conditions (and therefore maintenance strategies) follow a certain degradation curve. The actual curve can only be determined with successive road segment data collected over time and input to software. Design recommendations are likewise based upon vehicle and truck counts currently available and projected for the Pavement Management Plan Page 1 future. Finally, the life extending capabilities of various design and maintenance strategies are based on nationwide averages. Due to all these variables, this Plan recommends that a full street system analysis be prepared as a part of each two year budget preparation. This will serve a two fold purpose: a) the data input allows the software model to better predict the condition and therefore needs of the street system; and b) it keeps the Council aware of the importance of the street system and better helps the Council decide the degree of funding needed. Total program recommended funding levels are nearly twice those of the current program, increasing from $1.2 million annually today for sealing and overlay, to $2.3 million to fully achieve the pavement management objectives recommended in this Plan. This Plan also includes a recommendation for a new staff position to administer the program, maintain the software and prepare plans and specifications for the needed maintenance projects. In effect this creates an "advocate for pavement" on staff much like those that exist now for sewer, water, parks, etc. Why does this Plan recommend higher costs than the previous one? A number of issues all contribute the answer. • The previous system was designed to fully seal only 80% of the entire roadway system versus the planned 95% level recommended in this Plan. • The previous plan had no proactive approach to 5% of the system representing the Downtown. • The length of the City's roadway system has increased by 16% since 1987 (about 1.5% per year) and while adjustments were provided for increasing material costs, no adjustments were made for roadway system increases. • Estimates of the dollar amount required to "catch up" on major maintenance were probably low in the 1987 Plan. • Roads that were only 10 years old then are 20 years old today and thus further deteriorated and the maintenance strategies are far different, more effective and more expensive. • Funding was not consistently provided for the major maintenance identified in the 1987 Plan. Totaling all factors together creates a geometric funding deficiency rather than a simple arithmetic function. This Plan will help avoid these problems by providing a clearer, more quantifiable measure of pavement condition and return the streets to a more favorable condition found 10 years ago. Analysis of the current maintenance program and funding levels shows the existing street system in a gradual decline. A program that just maintains the status quo requires an annual increase in budget of about$200,000. The new "Area"program. A major component of this Plan is described as the "area' program. Citizens often complain that government agencies waste taxpayer dollars by paving a street one year and then ripping it up the following year with a sewer or water Pavement Management Plan Page 2 line project. This Plan proposes that all underground work necessary within the designated "area" would be completed in one year. The following year would be devoted to paving projects. And after that, no projects would occur in that area for another six years unless an emergency arises. Nationwide, pavement traditionally has received a fairly low priority for funding until such time as the public really starts to complain. A good pavement management plan prevents numerous complaints while keeping the public aware that the system is actively being managed. By adopting and implementing this, the 1998 Pavement Management Plan, the City of San Luis Obispo can expect a significant improvement to its street system. It provides a pro-active approach to long range planning, decreasing neighborhood disruption and maintaining the commercial viability of the Downtown. It will serve the needs of the community well into the next century. Pavement Management Plan Page 3 INTRODUCTION Pavement Management -The Basics Pavement management is the process and methodology of controlling the condition of the traveled roadway surface; preserving its appearance, usefulness, safety and longevity. Good pavement management accomplishes these goals in an effective and efficient manner. A comprehensive pavement management program includes three major elements: a) on-going or Global Maintenance; b) rehabilitation or Major Maintenance; and c) inspection, monitoring, data input or Program Administration. Without one of the three elements pavement management can survive, but at the cost of effectiveness and efficiency. Global maintenance is intended: to extend the life of roadways which exist in a good condition, and to maintain all other streets in a safe and operational condition until such time as major maintenance can take place. This form of maintenance includes street sweeping, crack sealing, and surface sealing. The City has conducted, for a number of years, a successful surface sealing program including chip seals, cape seals and micro- surfacing. Major maintenance involves an engineered design to rehabilitate a given roadway segment and, in essence, return it to the condition of a brand new surface. Roadway overlays and reconstruction are examples of this type of maintenance. Program administration requires a significant effort because the street system is most often a city's most valuable asset. The software to evaluate and make recommendations is complicated; the data necessary is extensive; and knowledge of pavement design and experience in the field is necessary to make effective and efficient decisions. History of Pavement Management in the City Prior to 1987, the Public Works Department managed the City's pavement by conducting an annual field review. The review was conducted by the Department Head and the Street Superintendent. The review was conducted over a two to four week period by driving each of the city's streets, and recording the needs of the pavement on a map. The result was an annual .work program, constrained by the budget, to correct observed deficiencies by improving the pavement by overlay or reconstruction and to extend existing pavement life by application of a chip seal. In 1987, the City adopted a Pavement Management Plan that used a proprietary software program to rate street conditions and recommend maintenance. This system was installed and managed by staff at the Corporation Yard. The program identified a large city-wide deficiency in street conditions. As a result, the City Council approved additional funding for a major maintenance program which was projected to cure the deficiency within a ten year period. Additionally, a global maintenance program was approved with a goal to extend the life expectancy of the existing city street system. In 1993, the City experienced a budget shortfall and addressed the shortage of funds by a combination of staffing reductions and cutting back on programs. At the time, three Pavement Management Plan Page 4 different positions at the Corporation Yard were responsible for the operation and maintenance of the Pavement Maintenance program. Two of the positions were eliminated, and the person in the third position retired and his position was not filled. In addition funds for major maintenance were reduced. Thus due to significant problems at the time, two of the key areas for a pavement management program - major maintenance and program administration - were negatively affected and streets scheduled for major maintenance were delayed. In 1995, the condition of Marsh Street was determined to be extraordinarily deteriorating. With the opening of significant improvements in the downtown, the Council directed the expenditure of over a year's worth of major maintenance funding be used to provide significant improvements to Marsh Street, including beautification and drainage improvements. Other streets scheduled for this type of maintenance were further delayed. During the City Council budget deliberations in the spring of 1995, staff proposed and the Council concurred with the need for a new pavement management system. However, the Council rejected the request to hire a consultant to prepare the pavement management plan and directed that the plan be prepared using only staff resources. The plan was to be prepared within the existing workload and a budget of$15,000 was allocated. Because of multiple other projects and Council goals, staff preparation of this comprehensive report took longer than originally anticipated. This report is the conclusion of much staff time and effort. Pavement Management Pian Page 5 PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT - DESIGN ELEMENTS Pavement is a Valuable Asset The surfaced or paved area within the city is both a large and valuable asset. Approximately 1/8`h of the surface area within the city limits is currently covered with street pavement, not including the area paved and used for parkways, sidewalks, parking lots or private streets and driveways. The replacement value of just this public street pavement is approximately $60 million dollars. Managing the City's largest asset in an effective and efficient manner is incumbent upon staff, and expected by the City's citizens. Due to the significant asset value, an effective management program must contain key policies adopted by the local elected officials. It is important that all policy makers have a basic understanding of pavement design and its aging process before giving direction to implement a pavement management plan. The Design Life of Pavement The design life of pavement is a policy area that directly affects initial construction cost, and secondarily affects on-going maintenance costs. In theory, the design life is time from initial construction until it is time to remove and reconstruct the roadway section again. The standard pavement design life in the United States is 20 years. However, different design periods are possible as a standard design life in Europe is 50 years. The European view is more costly initially but requires significantly less maintenance over the life of the pavement. Extended life expectancy can be obtained by either designing pavement with different parameters or by using different materials. In an effort to learn from the Europeans, the United States sent experts to study their designs with the goal of returning with new knowledge on how to build better and longer lasting roads. The result of that research effort is a new pavement design called Superpave. Many states have adopted it while others, including California, are still analyzing the design parameters and doing testing. Another example of roads with long design lives can be found here in San Luis Obispo in the existing network of concrete streets. While they may have ride or appearance problems, they are still structurally sound and viable streets. Because the pavement has been designed for a 20 year life, and because there would never be enough funds to totally replace the entire street network every 20 years, pavement management programs have been developed with an emphasis on design life extension. Thus a key policy and accompanying component of a pavement management plan is a strategy on how best to achieve extension of pavement life. How Pavements Age and Are Rated Most pavements placed today are asphalt. Asphalt is a combination of small rock, sand and asphaltic emulsions which act as a binder for the other material. All asphalt roads are considered a flexible design; meaning that the road will flex under loading but rebound to its original shape after the load has passed. It is the asphalt binder that provides the flexibility. However, asphalt is subject to oxidation by sun light and as such loses its Pavement Management Plan Page 6 ability to bind the structural parts of the pavement and yet remain flexible. If not repaired or maintained, the pavement becomes rigid and is no longer able to sustain the loads. The pavement cracks and breaks and then must be removed and replaced. The asphaltic emulsions also provide a watertight seal at the surface of the pavement. This keeps water from penetrating through the pavement to the soil which supports it. Dry soil has the strength to support a flexible pavement while wet soil does not; leading again to structural failure. Thus it is important that a good surface seal be maintained to keep water intrusion to a minimum. All pavements age in a non-linear way. If all things are equal, the condition of a new pavement remains in an excellent condition for several years while oxidation slowly takes place. Then, gradually, the condition begins to deteriorate as either the soil looses strength or the pavement becomes rigid. At some point, the rate of deterioration plunges steeply. This leads to a street in poor condition and rapidly increasing maintenance costs. Finally, the condition of the road stabilizes in a very poor condition. Pavements in varying states of repair and ride were evaluated and a standard methodology of measurement, the Pavement Condition Index (PCI) was established to provide a basis for comparison and recommendation of maintenance strategies. A high PCI is a road in good to excellent condition, while a low PCI is a road in poor condition. The figure below shows a typical degradation curve for an asphalt roadway over a period of time. The goal of a good pavement management program is to maintain an average PCI of the street system as high as possible. go PCI 0 5 10 15 20 TIME Typical Street Degradation Curve Obviously, a key question that must be asked is: "At what point is it no longer economical to try to maintain or extend the pavement life?" The point where the pavement condition begins to rapidly deteriorate is called the critical point or pci and the most common critical PCI is 50. Pavement management programs recommend maintenance strategies that extend pavement life for streets above the critical point. For those below the critical point, strategies are recommended which keep the streets in a safe condition until such time as the road can be reconstructed. Figure 1 shows the critical point in relation to the degradation curve and time. Pavement Management Plan Page 7 Good pavement management means the cost to maintain the pavement in a good or excellent condition is relatively low, as long as the work is done before the condition begins rapid deterioration. Once the pavement has begun to deteriorate rapidly the cost to restore the pavement to excellent condition increases rapidly to the point where it may not make economic sense to spend money doing routine maintenance. Most experts in pavement management recommend that priority be placed on spending money to keep streets maintained above the critical point. If the condition of the pavement is above the critical point, global maintenance should be performed frequently enough to keep it there. As pavements fall further towards the critical point, forms of major maintenance such as overlays and spot repairs are appropriate forms of maintenance to extend pavement life. Pavements that fall slightly below the critical point can sometimes be restored with a combination of overlay and reconstruction but when pavement falls further, complete reconstruction is necessary. Reconstruction is the most costly solution to pavement problems. The decision to allow a deteriorated pavement to remain must be made considering potential risks. It may be rough, but it cannot have structural problems such that vehicles using it are placed in an unsafe condition. Factors that must be considered include the number of vehicles per day, the type of vehicles (emergency, trucks, motorcycles and bikes, etc.). These factors tend to favor programs which place priority on maintenance, including reconstruction, on arterial and collector roads. Finally, all pavement management programs need an element that assures that the needs of pedestrians crossing the street are met, regardless of the condition of the street. Pavement Condition - The Public View Some streets in the community will need to be maintained for more than just transportation purposes. They serve to provide identity. An example of this was the decision to spend significant resources on the rehabilitation of Marsh Street in the downtown. Visitors entering the community receive their first impressions as they observe the condition of the streets. Pavement condition is also a statement of the governing body's performance. A well maintained, attractive street system is an indicator of good government. The public only intuitively knows the PCI of the City's street system. They know and appreciate smooth streets and a fast response to a service request (such as a pothole repair). Citizens take pride in well maintained streets and recognize that streets that provide access to the community for our residents and visitors and streets in the principal business areas have different needs. These streets should be maintained to a higher standard and may have differing design standards such as decorative stamped concrete, pavers, colored materials etc. Policies which recognize these differing standards of expectations should be part of a good pavement management program. Pavement Management Plan Page 8 PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE What is a Pavement Management Software Program? Pavement management programs can consist of basic maintenance operations directed from a very simple file card system to a highly complex combination of maintenance strategies tied to computerized databases. The heart of most modern programs is a software program that contains the streets database and, on the basis of input inspection data, makes recommendations of various maintenance strategies. The primary purpose of the software is to provide the pavement manager a reliable basis for making economical decisions, resulting in the best pavement the budget will allow. Typically the database will provide information,about the kind, quantity and quality of the pavement. The system of paved areas is broken into various sized segments that are unique in character. The pavement type, history, and condition is recorded. The information is used to identify needed maintenance. If money is not a limiting factor, the project strategy is not difficult. Since budgets are a reality, the manager must use the most economical alternative maintenance strategy in order to extend the pavement life and maintain the surface at an acceptable condition. The software is designed to identify a work plan that will optimize expenditures. It does this by providing a consistent method of pavement evaluation and comparing the results with time. Any performed maintenance effort on the pavement is input. Periodically pavements are re-inspected to document the rate at which it ages. Some systems include a method of forecasting the rate of expected deterioration based upon the history of similar pavements in the system. The system tells the engineer whether the overall system is getting better, poorer or staying the same. A well managed system will tell the pavements' owner, the City, whether more or less funding should be allocated for maintenance and will tell the engineer the effectiveness of the maintenance systems being used. One feature that many newer software programs have is GIS interaction. This allows the manager to see the data in a geographical relationship. It helps in developing a plan of operation in order to perform a more logical maintenance program. The implementation of a sophisticated software program is a large project. Every street in the system must be investigated to identify the history of the current surface. Following this, the street must be inspected using a systematic approach to make the results meaningful. Lastly, a good record must be made of the history and inspection. With all of the data gathered, the final and relatively important activity is an evaluation of the report and the development of a work plan and related budget. This process involves a series of trial runs to find what alternative work plans will result in the most improvement to the system within the budget allowed. Initially, the fust evaluations are made for the purpose of identifying the amount of the deficiency and are the beginning point for evaluation and eventual recommendation. Pavement Management Plan Page 9 How Staff Chose the New Software Prior to beginning this project, staff met and discussed goals for a management system. Desirable features were discussed and agreed upon. The system had to be simple, result in consistent inspection results, be supported by a credible organization and relatively easy to use. It needed to work on the City's chosen computer hardware both now and in the future, and provide flexible reports indicating pavement conditions. It had to produce budget-planning documents that allowed the use of materials we now use and ones we may like to consider for use in the future. Annual updates must be easily made and Cal Poly students should be easily trained to inspect and input the data. Last of all the program costs and costs to inspect and install the data needed to fit within the budget established by the Council. Staff reviewed comparison reports prepared for the Federal Highway Administrations LTAP program. Staff attended programs put on by the Institute of Transportation Studies at Berkeley and examined samples of many of the better programs. Based on all information gathered, staff made the decision to purchase MicroPaver. This program has been under continual development by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers since the 1970's and is supported by the University of Illinois and the American Public Works Association. The program was originally developed to assist the military in the maintenance of its bases. It will continue to be updated and supported, as the government has a strong desire to maintain the program since it has proven to be an effective tool for maintenance of military bases and commercial airports. Nations around the world have also adopted it for use in their countries. The program is designed to run on desktop computers under Windows NT or 95. It is also designed to link directly with ARCVIEW, the City's chosen GIS software. In addition, it has a very simple inspection system that is easy to use and results in consistent evaluations. Also modules are currently being designed to assist maintenance programming in other areas including storm drains, sidewalks and buildings. How did we install the new system? Once MicroPaver was ordered, two staff members spent a week at the University of Illinois leaming how to operate it. Upon returning to San Luis Obispo, staff began the process of installing the software and the database. The first project was to identify the current pavement inventory and its condition. To do this, the entire inventory used in the prior system was reviewed and checked against historical plans. Next, the pavement areas were mapped utilizing AutoCad and the City's base map system. This provided an accurate plotting of the location and area of each segment of pavement. The segment areas were further divided on the AutoCad maps to create sample areas for inspection. Crews of student interns were trained in defect identification and measurement following procedures established by the Corps of Engineers. The interns inspected the sample areas identified on the drawings. It is important that the sample area be well defined, because the real power of the program results when the same sample area is reviewed over time and the rate of aging and deterioration of the pavement is established. Pavement Management Plan Page 10 After the pavements were inspected, the resulting data was entered into the computer and a pavement condition index, PCI, was established for each segment of roadway. The PCI is a very important index in pavement management: the higher the PCI, the better the pavement's condition and less funding is necessary for.rehabilitation; the lower the PCI, the worse the ride, the condition, the public approval etc., and significantly more funding is necessary for rehabilitation. How Does MicroPaver Work? MicroPaver bases its recommendations upon the data input and the Pavement Condition Index or PCI. The PCI is a number ranging from 0-100. A perfect street would have a rating of 100. A PCI is calculated from inspection information and is assigned to each street segment. The street segments are assigned to a family of streets having similar characteristics. i.e. they were built of similar material, concrete or asphalt. The PCI for each street segment was then plotted against pavement age on a chart for each family. The program uses the data to define the degradation curve for each family of pavement. This curve projects the condition of each pavement in future years. It can also be used to estimate the current condition of similar pavement that was not inspected. Based upon the PCI and the available budget, MicroPaver assigns work on a priority basis as follows: 1. Global Maintenance - Stop Gap Work. This work, which would be performed by City Crews, is assigned to those streets below the critical point in order to make the streets safe for vehicular traffic and includes repair of potholes, and grind and pave operations. 2. Global Maintenance - Preventative Maintenance. Streets, above the critical point, are next identified which will benefit from a maintenance program to extend street life. This is generally done via a street sealing program and is usually performed under contract. 3. Major Maintenance - Structural Repair. Resources are next allocated for roads above the critical point but with areas of structural failure. Repairs performed extend roadway life and make the road eligible for the more cost beneficial form of global maintenance. 4. Major Maintenance - Overlays and Reconstruction. All remaining resources are directed to those streets in the worst condition. Once this work has taken place the PCI is essentially 100 and the street is eligible for ongoing preventative maintenance. MicroPaver places emphasis on preserving and extending pavement life. It only recommends work that is cost-effective - even for streets in the worst condition. It works on the premise that once a street deteriorates to a low point the cost of rehabilitation does not increase with time. Pavement Management Plan Page 1 I ANALYSIS OF THE CITY'S STREET SYSTEM System Description The City has 187 KM (116 miles) of streets. As previously mentioned, the paved area of City surface is over 1/8`h of the City's total incorporated area. The streets have been built over a period of many years, and the materials used for pavement is a variety of concrete and/or asphalt over the native ground or imported base material. Streets are commonly classified by the surface material or wearing surface. The existing street surfaces are classified as shown in the following chart. Street Surface Material Original Asphalt Pavement AC Overlaid Asphalt Pavement AAC Concrete Pavement PCC Concrete Pavement overlaid with Asphalt APC Oiled or gravel street GR Streets are also classified by use. While the City's Circulation Element has a number of classifications, for the purposes of pavement management, streets will be classified as Central Business District, Arterial, Collector, or Local. The following table describes the existing street system by both street classification and pavement type. Percent of total Street Rank Pavement Area Central Business District 5% Arterial 23% Collector 14% Local 58% Pavement Type t Asphalt Pavement 45% Overlaid Asphalt Pavement 42% Concrete Pavement 1% Concrete Pavement overlaid with Asphalt 9% Un-paved streets represent 3%of all streets Pavement Management Plan Page 12 Total replacement value of the pavement alone is estimated to be $60 million. The value of the street system curbs, gutters, sidewalks, drainage systems, street trees, street lights, traffic signs and controls should be added to this figure to obtain a true overall street system valuation. Street Condition Analysis The existing city street Condition Distribution Graph (0/o Area): 1997 pavement system was so inspected and the data 2520 input into N icroPaver. Percent 15 A total of 187 centerline Area 10 kilometers of pavement 5 F were inspected. The 0 Failed %Poor %Good %Excellent current condition can be %Very Poor %Fair %Very Good seen on the bar chart. Condition Over 70% of the area of pavement inspected was good or better. Unfortunately some of the pavement was of lesser quality. Pavement Condition Onve This graph shows how the pavement Beginning 1987 and Projected to 2001 has been aging over the past 10 years and where it might be in five January 1998 years. Using current data and ,m projecting back to 1987, — MicroPaver indicates that a PCI of so 80 was most likely the City average 60 at that time. The graph shows that oO O11 40 the City has not sufficiently funded its road surface maintenance 20ot� program to stop the system from JU isai,rW iaffl Jtd 1991 Jd 1993 Ad is$M 1997 Ad ire Jd anoi further deterioration. A decision will be necessary to either provide Yews more funding or adopt a policy acknowledging a lesser street system if the City continues to follow the current maintenance program. Pavement Management Plan Page 13 This bar chart shows how the O anditkm mon Graph ro/OAreW' 20131 pavement will appear in 10 40 years, if no further 30 maintenance is done. As Percent seen, the only 50%of the area Arm 20 remains in the good and very 10 good categories. 01�[:Iwuo� %Fbiled %P" %Cmd %DmeIlart %VeyPbx %FWr %Ve ca)d Cbrdtian The charts below show the current average PCI for various pavement types in San Luis Obispo and the percentage of total street area of each material. Pavement Type Ave. PCI Ave. Age % Area Asphalt (AC) 80 22 45 Overlaid Asphalt(AAC) 67 18 42 Overlaid Concrete(APC) 47 22 9 Concrete(PCC) 33 63 1 Street Classification Ave. PCI Ave. Age % Area All Streets -- Average 70 20 100 Downtown 48 23 5 Arterial 59 17 23 Collector 63 19 14 Local 77 22 58 The concrete streets in the city are old. They are either in the downtown area and its environs or are former state highways. . Many were overlaid with asphalt around 1970. These streets have an average PCI rating of 47. The overlaid streets are now only in slightly better condition than those streets which were not overlaid. Downtown streets Pavement Management Plan Page 14 rate just below the critical PCI level, primarily due to the fact that Marsh Street was recently overlaid and has a much higher rating which helps to raise the overall average. The local streets are in the best average condition. One reason for this high rating is that these streets are among the newest. Recently constructed streets, those built since the 70's, were built to an adopted city standard based on engineering design standards. Older streets were also built to a standard but not as high a standard as that used today. One of the key indicators of the adequacy of the pavement maintenance budget is an estimate of what it would cost to address all of the deficiencies found during the inspection. The current deficiency at this time is $16.6 million or about 28% of its total value. If the entire deficiency was addressed in the first year of a maintenance program (a big undertaking!), the ongoing expenditure needed for global maintenance to maintain the street system in excellent condition would be $500,000 per year. Effects of Good Design Standards As discussed above, newer streets designed and built to engineered standards have Asphalt Pavement Constructed in proven to last longer. This Last 20 Years graph shows the relationship of pavement age to pavement 100 _ _ • - e ■ condition for asphalt pavement v 50 -- ® ' = constructed during the past 20 a - e _ plus years. This pavement was 0 designed to current standards 0 5 10 15 20 and much of it was maintained Years with the various seal programs. The obvious thing to note is that the pavement average condition is good. The exceptions, which fall well below the critical point, are generally paveouts along major streets that also serve as bus routes. Effects of inadequate design standards i.e. bus route impacts Bus routes impact pavement life. The information on bus routes is illuminating, and until this study was conducted, the effects of buses were only known subjectively. When looked at separately, the streets that are used for bus routes have a 20 year rating of 45. Those that are not used for bus routes have a 20 year rating of 61. Pavement Management Plan Page 15 The two charts below show the difference in the aging of streets on and off the bus routes. From looking at these charts, it is evident that bus traffic does result in pavement wearing out faster. Pavement Aging on Arterial and Paw=Agltlg rnBts Rohe Collector Streets that ate rtot Bus Sites Routes 10D loo �`�_ Pa 40 � % 0 10 ao 3D 40 so M 40 60 M 100 Years Yeah The Street Sealing Program Observation of the charts to the right shows the Streets Not Sealed condition of various pavements sealed over the in lmt 8 yeam PQM last eight years and those that have not. The sealing program was established as a part of the 1987 pavement management plan and its success is evident by comparing the two charts. �. The original goal was to seal 80% of the entire ^m 6 street surface area within a ten year period (or s ■ 8%/year), choosing very large areas within the °RFak, RP� %r�w Rte. City to yearly receive the seal coat maintenance. %VMP Q %Fa` R°%G"d cmmm The plan assumed that 2% of the streets would be overlaid or reconstructed each year and therefore not require sealing. For the first five years, the City performed a"chip seal' project on selected streets. In the last three years, the City has employed the use of Condition of Streets Sealed in a "cape seal' for one and "Micro-Surface seals" last 8 years. Ave PCI=67 for the latest two. Several construction problems, risk management issues and public frustration 30 issues were eliminated with the Micro Surface u w seal. Am ,s io While the current program (FY 97-99) is funded s to seal 8% of the street per year, the average °%Fa,ed P= %Exa„m actually accomplished over the last nine years has %VcyPwr %Fmr %.veyG d co,mdo, been 7.2% of the street area. The program has fallen short of its ten year goal for two reasons: a) the total street system has grown in the Pavement Management Plan Page 16 last nine years and this growth has not been factored into the program; and b) the original goal should have been 12% per year because the effective "life" of a seal coat is eight years. Summary of Current Condition Total Value of Deficiency. In summary, the VLOMOM analysis from MicroPaver shows that the S16=000 pavement system is still in good condition but $14,O o= that it is and has been deteriorating. X0° OM Continuing on the present course will lead to V$ t00m00D the need for expensive repairs in the future. m M=CCO s�.0000ro The 1987 plan showed the need for $2.5 $4CMCM million ($3.2 million in 1997 dollars) in 3Z=® rehabilitation. The current plan shows the $0 need for $16.6 million. However, these two 97 86 e4 ® n " 70 numbers cannot be directly compared because ftMffltQrMMhWM the 1987 plan was intended to return the pavement condition to 1980-81 levels; an unknown PCI level. (As mentioned earlier, MicroPaver projected a 1987 PCI level of 80 but there are too many variables to likewise project a 1980 PCI level.) The number generated by the current plan, in essence, returns all streets to as near a PCI of 100 as is practical, and then assumes that only ongoing global maintenance would be necessary. The accompanying chart describes the deficiency level against desired PCI level. The higher the desired level of PCI, the greater the deficiency and the greater funding necessary to achieve that desire. For example, an expenditure of$4 million dollars today would raise the overall condition of the pavement to 80. Funding levels for Pavement Management As previously discussed, past funding levels have not been sufficient to stop a slow overall degradation of the City's street system. Various funding levels were analyzed for their effect on street system quality. The following three charts model the relationship between overall pavement value and age. Value is used rather than PCI because, like a junk car, the value may go to zero but the roadway (or car) is still barely usable. The charts assume that the pavement will depreciate to little or no value over 20 years following a straight line. The initial value was determined by MicroPaver to be approximately $60 million. At the point where the model shows a depreciation of $16 million (our current condition) an application of a global maintenance and a capital improvement effort is applied (i.e. the beginning of a new pavement management program). Applying an increased global maintenance effort does not improve the value of the system but does stop system depreciation. Capital improvement (i.e. major maintenance) is required to add value to the overall system. All funding levels analyzed are based on a program of street sealing (global maintenance) and overlay/reconstruction (major maintenance). Pavement Management Plan Page 17 Figure No. 1 shows that a funding level of $1.3 Million (an increase of $200,000 over current program) is necessary to stop further degradation. This, in essence, would maintain the current level of citizen complaints and public perception of the City's road system condition. Funding level: $500,000 sealing and$800,000 overlay/reconstruction. $60,000,000 $50,000,000 $40,000,000 $30,000,000 r $20,000,000 $10,000,000 $0 r a) Ln n M CO LO n rn r T T T T T N Years Straight Line depreciation at 0/65 Value without Capital Expenditures Current Value with Capital Expenditures Figure 1 $1.3 Million Program Figure No. 2 shows that a program with $1.5 Million (an increase of about $400,000) will very slowly rehabilitate the system with a major improvement in overall conditions far into the future. Funding level: $500,000 sealing and $1,000,000 overlay/reconstruction. $60,000,000 $50,000,000 $40,000,000 $30,000,000 $20,000,000 $10,000,000 $0 co Un N rn CO in n M r T T T r T N Years —Straight Line depreciation at%5 Value without Capital Expenditures —Current Value with Capital Expenditures Figure 2 $1.5 Million Program Pavement Management Plan Page 18 Figure No. 3, with a funding level of $2 Million (an increase of about $900,000 over current program), shows a fairly significant improvement in overall quality of the City's system within a relatively short period of ten years and is the basis for recommendations made in the following section. However, even with this level of funding, the overall value of the street system will only rise to 80% of its total potential value (approximately equivalent to a PCI of 80). It is unrealistic, given current funding levels for cities in the State of California, to propose pavement management programs which will achieve full potential value. A good pavement management program, recognizes realities and sets a policy for attaining a reasonable street system that will reduce the number of citizen complaints and increase the perception that the City has and maintains a good and smooth street system. Funding level: $458,000 sealing and $1,500,000 overlay/reconstruction. $60,000,000 $50,000,000 $40,000,000 $30,000,000 """"" $20,000,000 $10,000,000 $0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Years Straight Line depreciation at°/u5 ,,"='Value without Capital Expenditures Current Value with Capital Expenditures Figure 3 $2.0 Million Program Pavement Management Plan Page 19 PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT PLAN RECOMMENDATIONS This Plan recommends an enlarged street sealing program, significant additional funding major maintenance, and a new program focusing on maintenance in the downtown in addition to enhancing other existing maintenance programs such as crack sealing and concrete repair. In order to assure successful implementation, a new staff position to provide the necessary engineering and project management is also recommended. What happens in ten years if we pursue the recommended program and expend $2.3 million per year on pavement maintenance? Given all constraints remain constant, the City's overall PCI will rise to 80 from 70. However, constraints do not always remain constant and as such this Plan requires a City Council biannual reevaluation. If that evaluation finds that the pavement condition is meeting expectations and predicts a lessor level of needed expenditures the budget could be reduced. Considering all of the variables involved with pavement aging and emerging pavement maintenance technologies there is no assurance that the recommended program levels of funding will remain constant and is in fact the best reason to perform the periodic review recommended in this Plan. Following are recommended Policies, and where appropriate, associated Programs to allow implementation. Policy Recommendations Pavement Condition Level Policy 1.1 Achieve and maintain a PCI of 80 for all City streets. Currently all streets have an average PCI of 70. The public, staff and the Council feel this level to be unacceptable. Staff reviewed PCI levels of 80, 90 and 100. Staff chose a PCI level of 80 due to budget considerations, and the fact that newer asphalt streets have an average of 80. Examples of streets with a PCI=80 include: Tank Farm Road from Poinsettia to the Railroad, Grand Avenue from McCollum to CalPoly, and Chorro Street from Palm to Monterey. This level of service will be better than the current, but there will still be streets in poor condition. There will be fewer complaints from citizens and likewise fewer streets below the critical point than there are today. Policy 1.2 Review and re-evaluate PCI level every ten years. It takes time to make significant changes in pavement condition. The changes proposed in this document are intended to gradually raise the overall PCI level over a period of 8 - 10 years. It is important that this program be reviewed by the policy body for its success, and to determine if it is time to set a higher standard. The higher PCI could be achieved much quicker; for example with a one year expenditure of $4 million the overall PCI could be raised by 10 points to an overall average of 80. The type of expenditure: major maintenance versus global maintenance can be seen in Appendix H. With this level of capital funding an ongoing maintenance level of approximately $1.3 million is required to maintain that PCI level. Pavement Management Plan Page 20 Roadway Design Criteria Policy 2.1 Set roadway design life expectancy at 20 years for all streets, other than new local streets in subdivisions which should be designed for 50 years. The design of major underground infrastructure (sewer, water and storm drain) assumes a 50 year life. Therefore, it is likely that a pavement designed for 50 years could provide good service life. The predominant cause of early structural failure is trench cuts for utilities. In older streets, with older infrastructure systems, many street cuts are necessary in order to provide reliable utility service. In these areas, maintaining a design life of 20 years is appropriate. Requiring subdivisions to design streets for a 50 year.life would have an effect on the cost of housing. While the cost of the pavement would increase about 25%, the overall cost of the subdivision infrastructure improvements would increase by about 4%. The exact impact on housing costs probably would not be noticed. Policy 2.2 Set the Traffic Index (TI) at 8.5 for arterial and collector streets; at 7 for bus routes on local streets; 6.5 for local streets with a life expectancy of 50 years; and 5.5 for all remaining local streets. The design of pavement is based on a TI. This number is based on the expected number of heavy vehicles to travel the street in the design life. Due to the damage caused by buses, staff recommends a TI=8.5 for areas of arterials and collectors and TI=7 for areas of local streets used by buses. Pavement inspections, as well as the graphs of bus impacts, have documented that the current design standard is not adequate to withstand the extra loads created by bus traffic. Without bus traffic, a review of what this number should be indicates that a TI=8 should be used for arterial and collector streets. However, since bus routes are always subject to change, and arterials and collectors are the primary streets used by buses, it is fair to assume that eventually the street may be used by the bus system and a little extra design effort will pay off in the future. Local streets are also affected by bus traffic, but the need to design every street for that need is unrealistic. Therefore a TI=5.5 is recommended for local streets. All referenced values are based on a life of 20 years. For local streets designed for a 50 year life, the TI will be increased to TI=6.5. This will yield a 150% increase in useful life with only a construction cost increase of 25%. Policy 2.2 Soil Strength (R ) will be assumed to be 5 unless documented otherwise. Soil strength is measured in the lab and a number( the R value) that represents the soil strength is established. In San Luis Obispo, where poor soils are common, this number can be as low as 5 ( the lowest possible). Staff recommends that all pavement be designed based on an assumed value of 5. The roadway designer may have soil samples tested for actual value and the measured R value may then be used in the calculation of the pavement design. Pavement Management Plan Page 21 Policy 2.3 Encourage the use of new technologies and materials in pavement design Most likely pavement materials will continue to be asphalt. However, there are many new designs of asphalt mixes being developed with the goal to reduce cost and increase life. "Superpave" and other similar alternatives should be examined. In addition the cost and benefit of concrete pavement should be monitored, particularly where longer life is desired. Various methods of preparing the subsoil and ways of placing the pavement are being explored, and the staff should be encouraged to investigate and recommend new systems where they are cost effective. Implementation Plan Policy 3.1 Provide a comprehensive street maintenance program that is least disruptive to business, residents and industry Program 3.1.1 Divide the City (except the Downtown) into eight designated "areas"; each of which will receive all City maintenance efforts no more than two years within an eight year period. The city will be divided into eight areas (see Appendix I), following the pattern of the past eight years of surface sealing. Maintenance of all facilities in the area will be coordinated and carried out within a one or two year time period. This Plan will involve utility agencies and the City's Utilities and Public Works Departments. The goal of this program will be to identify and provide complete maintenance of the area, budget allowing. The process will be programmed in a two-year budget, with planning in the first 6 months and implementation of each of the parts over the following 18 months. Utility work and major maintenance of streets would occur during year one, and global street maintenance (the sealing program) would occur during year two. During any one-year budget, two different areas will be in process so that the entire city can be covered in an eight year time period. Program 3.1.2 Create a specific action plan for the Downtown area to assure quality streets and minimal disruption of activities. The downtown, a ninth specific maintenance area, is a unique area that should have a regular program of maintenance. A series of small projects may have much less impact than a few large ones. Projects should be designed and planned to minimize the time they take. Projects should be scheduled to work in the downtown during hours which least impact the majority of the businesses and residents. The timing and planning of all projects needs to be closely coordinated with the BIA. The design of projects in the downtown should be open to new concepts and materials. Pavers, stamped asphalt and/or concrete, and other materials should be investigated for use in the Downtown. Pavement maintenance should be coordinated with major projects proposed by utilities and others. The Utilities Department Infrastructure Plan should be considered as projects are planned. Pavement Management Plan Page 22 In order to be least disruptive these projects would be performed by City staff. . For example one morning the City street paving crew may grind the existing asphalt off the street in one block.. The following morning the same crew would return, prepare and seal any cracks and lay .a thin layer of asphalt. The next morning the crew would adjust manholes and valve box covers and by the end of the week re-stripe the street. The projects would be designed to be accomplished in the morning hours, prior to noon. Visitors and adjacent businesses would for the most part of the day not be impacted. It would be visible but would have minimal impact on parking and access. This proposed program is much more pro-active than the "downtown" program associated with the current pavement management program. The current program urges restraint in all projects to avoid disrupting business in the Downtown. Unfortunately, this appears to have been taken too literally: except for the Marsh Street Reconstruction Project, little has been done in the Downtown as the current street conditions attest. This program assumes a close relationship with the BIA for well coordinated, quick, "in and out" projects that will keep the downtown streets smooth and attractive. Policy 3.2 Give priority to a) arterial streets; b) collector streets, and finally, c) local streets in areas scheduled for program implementation. Program 3.2.1 Identify the streets by classification and schedule rehabilitation work appropriately. The City's MicroPaver program will identify streets of higher usage and therefore those that will benefit the greatest from rehabilitation efforts. Program Components Policy 4.1 Create a comprehensive Global Maintenance component which emphasizes extending pavement life and maintaining a safe riding surface. Program 4.1.1 Provide every street within the eight major areas a seal treatment once every eight years The street sealing program provides the best cost/benefit for increasing pavement life, and the new micro-surfacing treatment has eliminated past problems with citizen acceptance. The beneficial life of a good sealing process is eight years, after which it has little affect on pavement quality. In order to receive maximum beneficial use of the seal coat, it must be reapplied at the end of its useful life or every eight years. This program continues the successful sealing program started in the 1987 pavement management program, which also divided the city into eight geographical divisions, with a plan to seal the streets in one of these areas each year. There were two reasons for this policy: one, the City had a goal of sealing every street every eight years to extend pavement life; and two, it was much more efficient for both the contractor and City staff to work in one area thus keeping Pavement Management Plan Page 23 cost down. The concept has proven to be successful. The contract costs have been reasonable and the work has been relatively easy to manage. Although the concept was good, actual implementation (i.e. only returning once every eight years) has been problematic. The amount of funding was insufficient to provide the once every eight year cycle; twenty six additional kilometers (16 miles) of streets to be sealed were discovered when all data was returned from MicroPaver; and staff turnover made program coordination and implementation difficult. Cross training and consistent use of the software package should eliminate these problems. Program 4.1.2 . Implement an effective pothole response program This is considered a "stop gap" or preventive maintenance procedure. Pothole repair prevents water intrusion into the supporting soil, and assures that the roadway surface remains in as safe a condition as possible until such time as the road can receive major maintenance. Potholes are the result of unique failures of the pavement resulting in a hole. The life of the pavement is only marginally extended and the condition of the pavement is only slightly improved. The City staff will repair "potholes" in normal working situations and on normal working days within 24 hours of notice. Program 4.1.3 Implement a Grind and Paveout repair program This is a process of removing irregularities in the pavement's profile using a grinding machine. After the surface is smoothed, a thin coat of asphalt is applied to hide the grind marks, make the surface uniform and provide some small extension of the pavement's life. This is a life extending process that results in a good finished pavement appearance. Recent applications have been to address bicycle and pedestrian safety issues, although larger projects are equally possible as evidenced by the recent Orcutt Road and Tank Farm Road paving project performed by City staff. This process is also appropriate for concrete streets that have been overlaid with asphalt. The crew grinds off the old asphalt and lays a new layer on the concrete. This process should be repeated as soon as it becomes apparent that the old asphalt has begun to de-laminate from the concrete. Seal coating the asphalt surface may delay this but it will normally be necessary every 20 years. The City of San Francisco has been following this kind of program and found it successful. Many pavements display a failure called "alligator pavement" prior to forming potholes. The name reflects the appearance that is similar to the design of an alligator's hide. Removing the alligatored pavement, prior to complete failure via grinding or the more traditional dig-out methods, and replacing the failed asphalt with new asphalt material is a proactive procedure that will extend the life of the pavement. Pavement Management Plan Page 24 Program 4.1.4 Implement a crack sealing program Older pavements become brittle and crack and, if not addressed, allow water through the pavement to the supporting soil. Cracks should be sealed in the fall prior to rain and prior to any seal program. Cracks to be sealed are those too large to be sealed by the global sealing program. Ideally, the City should have a program that inspects and seals cracks every three years. The inspection program used by MicroPaver is an appropriate tool to use to identify streets needing to be crack sealed. If streets are inspected every three years, the data can be used to prepare a work plan to first address those streets that will be sealed in the area of the seal coat program and then those streets that are outside of that area. Program 4.1.5 Provide a comprehensive curb and gutter repair and replacement program. This continues and expands the current successful program. The edge of City street pavements are protected by a containment system of concrete curbs and gutters. Where drainage is concentrated, and must cross the surface of the street, cross gutters are installed. These features are important to the life of the pavement. They cant' water away from the pavement and protect the edges from raveling. They are maintained by City crews and by adjacent property owners. Well maintained concrete curbs, gutters, and cross gutters will extend the life of the pavement. Policy 4.2 Create a comprehensive Major Maintenance component to rehabilitate poor quality streets to an excellent condition. Program 4.2.1 Implement engineered design solutions to all streets possible within the selected area for rehabilitation. This work will be engineered and inspected by staff or consultants, depending on overall workload, and will be contracted to the private sector for construction. Engineered design means a design based upon data collected about the existing structural section, such that an individual solution is created which most cost effectively applies to what funding is available. By focusing all work in one specific area, the City should be able to receive somewhat better contract prices. This program allocates approximately 2/3`d of funding for major maintenance for use in the scheduled maintenance area. Major maintenance is much more expensive than Global Maintenance, because the roadway is in much worse condition. Upon completion of this effort, the pavement should return to a PCI level of 100. Program 4.2.2 Implement engineered design solutions to major arterials, which are not part of the scheduled area for improvements, if deemed necessary. This program allocates approximately 1/3`d of funding for major maintenance to be used to rehabilitate the major arterial streets in the city as long as needed. These streets are just too important to the well being of the city to be forced to Pavement Management Plan Page 25 await treatment for eight years. All design, inspection and contracting features of . program 4.2.1 apply to this program also. Policy 4.3 Implement a pavement management administration component to guarantee the preservation an enhancement of the quality and life of the City's roadway system. Program 4.3.1 Inspect the street system annually and input data to MicroPaver. Annually the staff will conduct inspections of pavement and provide the Council with a summary report of the condition. The inspections will be conducted following MicroPaver procedures, and -the condition report will be made available through the program. Streets inspected during the annual inspection will be those streets within the next year's area for maintenance. Also included will be any downtown, arterial, or collector street that had not been inspected in the last three year or had received a PCI of less than 60 at its last inspection. Streets overlaid, reconstructed or newly constructed in the last 6 years would not be inspected until they were 6 years old. The Pavement Management Plan shall be linked to the City's GLS. The data file shall be updated annually, so that others wishing to use it as a part of a GIS application may do so. The condition of the pavement shall be reported every two years at the time of the preparation of the two year budget. Program 4.3.2 Continually update MicroPaver with data from City staff global maintenance efforts. Monthly the staff should update the database to reflect the maintenance work conducted. Program 4.3.3 Inspect and update signs and delineation in each scheduled work area. The same crews that are responsible for maintaining the pavement must also maintain the signs and delineation. These features shall be reviewed annually and appropriately maintained. During the area maintenance program, all signs that do not meet standards for reflectivity or standard design shall be removed and replaced. Delineation shall be restored on all streets surfaced. Material for striping, such as thereto-plastic, shall meet longevity standards. Delineation in the downtown may need to meet other needs. With the increased vehicle and pedestrian activity, and more frequent sealing program, painted stripes may be more economical. Staff should investigate which is the appropriate material. Program 4.3.4 Prepare and enforce regulations on trench cuts in City streets to preserve pavement design life. Trenches in any street have the effect of severely reducing its life expectancy. Trenches are made in streets to allow the installation of utilities. Water, sewer, gas, and many wire utilities use underground systems within the street. These Pavement Management Plan Page 26 utilities are normally installed at the time of original development of subdivisions and street extensions. Unfortunately additional utility structures must be installed and existing ones must be repaired or replaced. When this happens, the pavement of the street is cut and repaired after the installation. Repairs are done carefully but due to the nature of the material used, the pavement is never as competent as was the original structure. Eventually the fill in the trench settles, causing the pavement to drop and cracks open up along the edge of the trench. The street becomes rough and the surface is opened to water penetration, which aggravates the problem by reducing the strength of the supporting soil. Studies done by other agencies indicate that trenches reduce the effective life of the pavement. At least two agencies in California, Sacramento and Los Angeles, have adopted policies and regulations implementing an aggressive program consisting of fees, standards and inspections, to protect their streets from damage caused by utility cuts. This program will research these programs and their success, if any, and formulate new regulations for enforcement in San Luis Obispo as appropriate. Existing regulations should remain in place which limit the ability to trench City streets which have been overlaid/reconstructed within the last five years or which have been sealed within the last three years. These regulations are waived in the case of an emergency but act to force utilities to do long range planning or design their infrastructure in a differing way (such as a bore and jack project as opposed to open trench). All trench projects which occur before the year designated for major maintenance should be required to sea] one half the street width (or 4m width whichever is less) for the length of the trenching project. This will add expense to the utility performing the trench operation but will relieve the taxpayer from the extra expense of underwriting the cost to repair a failed roadway later on. Pavement Management Plan Page 27 RECOMMENDED PROGRAM FUNDING LEVELS Due to various factors, the funding originally set aside for the 1987 pavement management program is insufficient to meet today's needs. Each of the policies and their respective programs are tailored to improve the quality of the City's street system and none are inexpensive. The recommendations made herein were made with the full comprehension that unlimited funding is not an option. Therefore, program costs were analyzed to optimize what was felt to be a reasonable pavement management program. Recommended Funding for Global Maintenance Street Sealing Program: Proposed Budget $458,000 Existing Budget $270,000 Increase in Budget $188,000 This program should be considered the foundation of a good pavement management system. If funding becomes critical, the Global Maintenance - Street Sealing Program should be the City's highest priority. Surface sealing all the streets in 1/8a' (95% / 8 = 11.875%) of the city in each year will cost an estimated $500,000 per year. This number includes both the seal coat and the preparation for the seal coat. The seal coat is of limited benefit if placed on pavement that has structural and base problems. These need to be fixed first. The current program level is insufficient to meet this program objective. Currently city staff are employed to prepare the surface area designated for the sealing program. This will no longer be possible due to other priorities set by this pavement management program and the size of area anticipated herein. Therefore, additional resources (i.e. contract services) will be needed to adequately prepare the streets for surface sealing. This may result in increased scope of work for the sealing contractor or may be bid as a separate contract. The last street sealing program (FY 96-97) sealed 8.0% of the street surface area with a budget of $270,000. In order to seal the needed 12% area a total of $405,000 is required ($270,000 x 12 / 8). The remaining $95,000 consists of surface preparation services ($70,000) and contingencies ($25,000). If the full funding recommended for major maintenance is implemented, the area for sealing can be reduced to 10.8% (from 11.875%) or roughly 11% because roads newly overlaid or reconstructed do not need to be sealed. Thus the appropriate funding for sealing would be reduced to $458,000. Downtown Street Program: Proposed Budget $150,000 Existing Budget $0 Increase in Budget $150,000 An annual budget of $150,000 is proposed to allow staff to perform regular maintenance of pavement in the City's downtown area of the city. This work would be primarily to grind and pave at this time because the existing pavement is Pavement Management Plan Page 28 in such poor condition. The amount of funding is based upon analysis by MicroPaver to maintain the streets in this area without further deterioration (see appendix F). This is a new program that places an emphasis on maintaining the quality of the streets in the Downtown area. With time no longer spent preparing street surface areas for the sealing program, City staff will perform this program. Pothole Response Program: Proposed Budget $20,000 Existing Budget $10,000 Increase in Budget $10,000 This is an expansion of the current program whereby City staff will take a more aggressive and pro-active approach to finding and filling potholes. Grind and Paveout Program: Proposed Budget $90,000 Existing Budget $50,000 Increase in Budget $40,000 This program currently exists as simply the asphalt line item in the streets budget. This program represents a new emphasis on how to accomplish maintenance in a timely and effective manner. The program will be used to repair poor pavement problems that cannot be included in the current Major Maintenance Program. City staff will perform this program. Crack Sealing Program: Proposed Budget $10,000 Existing Budget $0 Increase in Budget $10,000 This is in essence a new program, as very little crack sealing currently takes place. City staff will perform this task in the fall of each year - just prior to the rainy season. This work extends pavement life by preventing water from penetrating cracks. Workload issues will need to be addressed as this program is implemented. Curb and Gutter Repair Program: Proposed Budget $20,000 Existing Budget $16,500 Increase in Budget $ 3,500 This program, performed by City staff, represents an expanded curb and gutter program, due to the need to repair and replace as much curb, gutter and sidewalk as possible in the identified street seal area each year. Current funding: $16,500 ($12,000 base +$4,500 mid-year adjustment). Pavement Management Plan Page 29 Recommended Funding for Major Maintenance A substantial increase in funding for this type of maintenance is needed in order to have an effect on the City's overall average pavement condition. Major Maintenance for all streets in designated "area" (Program 4.2.1): Proposed Budget $1,000,000 Existing Budget $ 825,000 Increase in Budget $ 175,000 This recommended spending level, when combined with the recommendation for non-designated area, represents a near two-fold increase in the allocation for major maintenance. This type of maintenance is needed if streets in poor condition are ever to become acceptable to the public again. Major Maintenance for Arterials in non-designated area(Program 4.2.2): Proposed Budget $500,000 Existing Budget $0 Increase in Budget $500,000 Because the City cannot ignore the major arterial streets that serve the public on a daily basis, funds are required to repair and rehabilitate streets. Should the occasion arise when no such streets are identified, the funding should be transferred to the area program for that year. Major Maintenance - testing and evaluation: Proposed Budget $10,000 Existing Budget $0 Increase in Budget $10,000 To make the most cost effective use of City funds, structural testing of existing pavements should be done by consultants who specialize in this field. Recommended Funding for Program Management Inspect and input data: Proposed Budget $10,000 Existing Budget $10,000 Increase in Budget $0 This represents no change to the existing capital improvement program budget and will allow Cal Poly intems to continue to be used to gather and input the necessary data. Update Data of City operations: No budget change City staff will be trained on how to input data from the daily work that they perform. Data will most likely be input weekly. Pavement Management Plan Page 30 Inspect and update signs, etc.: No budget change City staff will simply concentrate their current city-wide efforts into the design area when needed. Trench cut regulations: No budget change City staff will research the effectiveness of other cities regulations and prepare for Council adoption an effective regulation. Recommended Staffing for Program Management Add one new staff position: Proposed Budget $62,000 Existing Budget $0 Increase in Budget $62,000 From a staffing perspective, the existing pavement management program has floundered due to a combination of budget and staffing cut backs. The preparation of this Plan took over two years to prepare, simply because there were too many competing demands on existing staff resources. The recommended program substantially expands the width and breadth over the existing program. Traditionally paving projects receive the lowest of priority; not due to a disdain for this type of project; but rather competing projects which demand higher priority. Significant workload analysis of current staff output shows that each engineer is able to design and produce for construction bidding approximately $1,000,000 worth of projects per year. Currently there is no staff person available to either design existing paving projects, nor keep the existing pavement management plan current. A new staff (Civil Engineer) position is therefore recommended. Since this program recommends a new emphasis on preservation of the City's most valuable asset, some staffing must be made available for that purpose. The increase recommended in Major Maintenance justifies a new engineer position for design purposes (about .6 position). This person could also provide the staffing to keep existing funding levels of Major Maintenance on schedule by being assigned to the pavement management program. Given the tasks of additionally managing the hiring of student interns for data collection and input, running yearly program recommendations and hiring consultants for pavement testing, yields the need for an additional 500 hours per year or about a t/a position. Thus to fully implement the recommended pavement management program, a new full time engineering position is recommended at a cost of approximately $ 62,000 per year. Pavement Management Plan Page 31 Funding Summary Current Proposed Funding Funding Increase Global Maintenance(Excludes Staffing Costs) Street Resealing 270,000 458,000 188,000 Downtown Street Repair 150,000 150,000 Pothole response 10,000 20,000 10,000 Grind and Pave-out 50,000 • 90,000 40,000 Crack Sealing 10,000 10,000 Curb and Gutter Repair 16,500 20,000 3,500 Total Global Maintenance 346,500 748,000 401,500 Major Maintenance Designated"Area' 825,000 1,000,000 175,000 Arterials not in "Area' 500,000 500,000 Testing and evaluation 10,000 10,000 Total Major Maintenance 825,000 1,510,000 685,000 Program Management Inspection and data entry 10,000 10,000 Staffing for Program Management 62,000 62,000 Total Program Management 10,000 72,000 62,000 TOTAL $1,181,500 $2,330,000 $1,148,500 Pavement Management Plan Page 32 FINANCING THE PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT PLAN This Plan includes recommendations for a comprehensive Program which includes a significant increase in funding levels in order to achieve a street system that is no longer in a state of decline and in fact a state of gradual betterment that the City can be proud of. The City of San Luis Obispo has traditionally funded all streets' program from the General Fund and no change is recommended or anticipated as a part of this document. The General Fund is comprised of many elements, one of which is the state gas tax, a tax collected in order to fund local road programs. However, the amount of state gas tax available to the City is substantially less than the City is currently spending on pavement management and should,.therefore, not be looked upon to help serve the additional needs created by this program's recommendations. There are many demands on a City to fund various programs. Unfortunately, street maintenance is not able to be supported by an "enterprise" fund (such as water systems are supported by a water fund, etc.) and therefore must compete with all other needs for valuable general fund resources. It therefore becomes the province of the governing body to determine what programs get prioritization and therefore funding. As described earlier, the street system represents the City's single largest capital investment with a potential value of $60 million. Through deterioration, this asset has depreciated to about $43 million and unless additional resources are allocated this deterioration and accompanying citizen complaints will continue. As seen earlier, a $200,000 increase in program funding is necessary just to keep the system at its current level. Any funding beyond that will make incremental improvements to the overall street condition. This program recommends program funding levels that will make a significant improvement to the street condition over a ten year period. Is there any help on the horizon for additional funding for pavement management? The answer is probably not. Currently, due to a good economy, the general fund has additional resources that should be allocated toward increased levels of funding support for pavement management. However, the cumulative effects of Proposition 13, 62 and 218 have made it virtually impossible to raise taxes or form special road improvement districts to raise funds for the specific purpose of better road maintenance. Additionally, the State of California, in order to balance its own budget a few years ago, took funds traditionally designated for cities and diverted them to the State's General Fund. When that General Fund was once again in good fiscal health, the State did not return those funds to the cities but either gave extra funds to other State programs or provided a tax cut to the citizens of the State. Currently, SLOCOG, the regional council of governments is researching the possibility of asking the citizens to vote for a sales tax increase which would be designated for road projects and maintenance. This may offer a ray of hope for additional pavement management funding and that effort should be encouraged and supported. Street cut fees are another potential source of revenue for pavement management; but would be so insignificant that they should not be considered as contributing help to the City's general fund. For example, the City of Sacramento, which recently became the Pavement Management Plan Page 33 first city to implement a comprehensive street cut fee, expects to receive yearly fee revenues of between $40,000 and $60,000. For a city the size of San Luis Obispo the yearly fees would probably be in the $3,000 to $4,000 range. The emphasis on a comprehensive street cut program is street preservation and not necessarily fee collection. What's the bottom line? Preserving the street system at its current level will require additional resources from the City's General Fund. Improving the street system will require yet more resources from the City's General Fund. This Plan recommends that the City begin immediately with a substantial increase in funding and therefore a significant beginning in roadway improvement. During periods of tight financial times, full funding may not be possible. With biannual reviews of the program, and knowledge of the effects of funding levels, financial decisions in the future will made on firm ground - knowing the impacts to the street system of each funding decision. I/CAR/PMP Pavement Report Pavement Management Plan Page 34 Appendix A Procedures followed to create the 1997 pavement inventory I. The City purchased the Micro Paver program from the University of Illinois. Two employees attended a week long class to learn how to implement the program. II. Following the directions in the manuals staff prepared forms for inventorying the streets and recording pavement inspections. III. Parameters were established regarding how the street system would be segmented and ranked: A. Streets would be divided into segments based on the age of pavement and the volume of traffic. 1. Portions of a street built in different years would be in different segments. 2. Portions of a street with differing traffic volumes would be in different segments. B. Streets would be assigned a rank based on common usage. This was to recognize two things, streets with a higher rank generally have higher traffic volumes, and streets with a higher rank receive more scrutiny from the public. Rankings were as follows: 1.. A-Downtown streets, 2. B-Arterial streets, 3. C-collector streets, 4. D-industrial local streets, and 5. E-local streets. IV. Mapping parameters: A. Streets that run in an easterly direction are mapped through intersections with streets of equal rank that go in a northerly direction. B. Streets that were a higher rank are mapped through the intersection of a street of a lower rank. V. Naming parameters: A. Streets are named using their given name shortened to 4 characters. Names beginning with Spanish prefixes such as Santa and La had the prefix shortened to `S', `L', or as appropriate. B. Street segments are labeled by naming the cross street at the westerly or northerly end of the segment first and the other end second. Again the Appendix Pavement Management Plan Page A I cross street names were shortened to 4 characters. Where possible the names that were repetitive were reviewed so that the reader would recognize the street by the abbreviated name. Example High Street is `High" and Highland is `Hlan'. VI. The inventory created in 1987 was reviewed and was used as the basis for a new inventory. VII. The history of each street was researched by a student intern. The data sheets from 1987 were reviewed and the construction plans viewed. In addition the index was searched to identify whether the street had been worked on since the last inventory was completed. VIII: The student intern reviewed the data and determined where the street should be segmented based on the parameters listed above. IX. The inventory sheet was sent to the Auto Cad operator who mapped the pavement of the street based on the information given on the inventory sheet. The AutoCad operator calculated the length and area of the pavement. Sample units, sized at 232 Sq. Meters, were mapped and a copy of the map for each street printed. The printed map was provided to a team of two students to perform field inspections. X. Field inspections were carried out by a two person team. The inspections followed the criteria defined in the inspection manuals provided for MicroPaver. Inspectors recorded the condition of the pavement and verified the dimensional information that had been gathered in the office. XI. A student entered the Inventory and Inspection data in the computer data base. XII. The data base was exported to the 955 Morro file service using the MicroPaver Import and Export program. The export file was named using the date and initials of the person exporting the file. This was done to provide the data for others to use while the files were being updated and to provide a method of data protection because the data files in the export file could not be corrupted by anyone using the data base and they were backed up daily on that file server. Anyone wishing to enter data or to use the file was instructed to import to their"C" drive the most recent export file. Only one person could be adding information to the file at any given time. Appendix Pavement Management Plan Page A 2 Appendix B Project-1997-98 Program Estimated cost 0 0 California, NCL to Taft $220, 000 Chorro, Marsh to Pismo $40, 000 Johnson, Laurel to Southwood $135, 000 Laurel, Johnson to Southwood $135, 000 Southwood, Sinsheimer to Laurel $55, 000 Santa Barbara, leff to Broad $110, 000 Santa Rosa, Peach to Palm $90, 000 Broad, Murray to 101 $110, 000 [Total $895, 000 These projects were submitted to CalTrans last June for Cycle 9 of the State Partnership program. The project list may be amended and changed prior to June 1998 or the beginning of construction which ever occurs first. Appendix Pavement Management Plan Page A 3 Appendix C 5 Year Work Program-$1 .5 Million per Year Plan Year Branch Section Maintenance 7/1/98 7/1/99 7/1/00 7/1/01 7/1/02 AIHi FeIMNEND Major M&R>=Critical 0 15,850 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Almd CentMiss Major M&R>=Critical 0 16,196 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Alri FlorEEnd Major MBI.R>=Critical 0 14,725 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Alta NEndCata Major M&R>=Critical 0 8,414 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Andr MontEEnd Major M&R>=Critical 0 4,002 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 SLtxone Major M&R>=Critical 0 12,477 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Atas GallOcea Major M&R>=Critical 0 26,213 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Augu BishGerd Major M&R>=Critical 26,131 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 GerdLaur Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 45,684 0 W/olaur Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 24,063 Auto LOVREnd Major M&R>=Critical 0 0 20,139 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Aval OceaOcea Major M&R>=Critical 0 20,111 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Bahi AlriSEnd Major M&R>=Critical 0 0 4,304 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 BBee HighSand Major M&R>=Critical 0 7,463 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 SandSout Major M&R>=Critical 0 13,492 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Bent MeinMurr Major M&R>=Critical 0 12,352 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Bish John—)64E Major M&R>=Critical 5,629 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 BICt EndBlue Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3,516 0 0 Bond HathKent Major M&R x Critical 0 12,015 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 BoxW WEndWave Major M&R>=Critical 0 0 6,158 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Bran BeebBroa Major M&R x Critical 1 0 62,985 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Appendix Pavement Management Plan Page A 4 Bres WEndSerD Major M&R>=Critical 1,560 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Bria WoodEEnd Major M&R>=Critical 12.229 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Broa 101Mont Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 68,165 0 HighSout Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 46,919 0 MarsHigh Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 179,687 0 MeinMurr Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14,721 MontMars Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 75,367 0 Murr101 Major M&R>=Critical 52,916 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Buch JohnSPRR Major M&R>=Critical 0 3,725 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 OsosSRos Major M&R>=Critical 10,333 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Bull 467S686S Major M&R>=Critical 7,148 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 686S847S Major M&R>=Critical 0 3,268 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 847SWill Major M&R>=Critical 0 6,066 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 BVis NEndLoom Major M&R>=Critical 22,561 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Cali FootT2 Major M&R>=Critical 66,841 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 CapW SacrEnd Major M&R>=Critical 0 12,377 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Carm HiguMars Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8,871 0 0 Cam LaEnEnd Major M&R>=Critical 0 5,844 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Caud BroaVict Major M&R>=Critical 0 5,984 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Cala SaaLAlls Major M&R>=Critical 23,536 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Cent BroaLinc Major M&R>=Critical 24,889 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Cerr CuesFeff Major M&R x Critical 0 18,936 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 JeffCues Major M&R>=Critical 0 15,300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PatrJeff Major M&R>=Critical 0 10,655 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Chan MitcLawr Major M&R>=Critical 0 4,288 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Chor HiguMars Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 Appendix Pavement Management Plan Page A 5 0 0 0 40,086 0 MarsPism Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 29,769 0 MontHigu Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8,396 Chur BroaSBar Major M&R>=Critical 0 23,926 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NipoBroa Major M&R>=Critical 10,659 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 CJoa LOVRNend Major M&R>=Critical 21,182 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Clov PtriRanc Major M&R>=Critical 0 3,985 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Cone CazaEEnd Major M&R>=Critical 0 12,288 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Coup WestDart Major M&R>=Critical 22,718 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Crai NendPatr Major M&R>=Critical 0 5,267 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PatrJeff Major M&R>=Critical 0 11,112 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Cypr BranHigh Major M&R>=Critical 0 17,173 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Daly AIHiPatr Major M&R>=Critical 0 4,045 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Dese WEndCaca Major M&R>=Critical 8,381 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 DNor Ramol45w Major M&R>=Critical 0 8,722 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Donn WEndJeff Major M&R>=Critical 0 4,537 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 DSur RamoLEnt Major M&R>=Critical 21,841 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Edge HarmSotw Major M&R>=Critical 0 4,059 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 SotwSEnd Major M&R>=Critical 0 10,287 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 EICe SanLCorr Major M&R>=Critical 0 5,675 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Elle NeodMban Major M&R x Critical 0 9,788 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 EImC RamoEEnd Major M&R>=Critical 0 0 1,501 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 FelM HlanPatr Major M&R>=Critical 0 17,432 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Felt CuesFerr Major M&R>=Critical 0 11,682 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ferr CRomFoot Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12,856 NlanChor Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3,697 0 0 Appendix Pavement Management Plan Page A 6 Fix] WendLizz Major M&R>=Critical 4,188 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Flet BoulLeon Major M&R>=Critical 0 5,659 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Flor EtPalaur Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 121.587 KnolCarl Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 24,904 SpriKnol Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 23,484 0 SydnElPa Major M&R>=Critical 12.062 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Foot FerrSRos Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 343,781 LCerPatr Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 40.386 Fran BroaVict Major M&R>=Critical 0 6,055 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Fred LongGran Major M&R>=Critical 41,320 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Gall OceaAtas Major M&R>=Critical 0 0 26,507 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Gard HiguPism Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 31,949 0 Gerd NEndAugu Major M&R x Critical 0 6,716 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Gran LoomMinS Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 46,880 L.00mMonN Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 44,710 SlacMcCo Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 38,098 Greg JohnEEnd Major M&R>=Critical 0 4,693 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Grov PhilMont Major M&R>=Critical 21.799 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 WilsPhil Major M&R>=Critical 0 18,833 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Hath CarpCali Major M&R>=Critical 0 28,534 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Hays Gran70He Major M&R>=Critical 0 22.798 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Hend LoomSlac Major M&R>=Critical 35,683 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Henr GeorElla Major M&R>=Critical 0 2,301 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1risGeor Major M&R>=Critical 5,529 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Herm LEntLune IMajor M&R>=Critical 0 13,767 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 High CyprSBar IMajor M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 Appendix Pavement Management Plan Page A 7 0 0 0 0 122,931 Higu HindMeiE Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7,370 0 0 MarsNipo Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 287,561 0 0 MeisPraE Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 32,142 0 NipoSRos Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 361,847 0 SC/L.VacE Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12,174 VachSubr Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8,444 MIS NEndLinc Major M&R>=Critical 0 11,363 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 HIan FerrSRos Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10,617 NChoFerT Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 68,348 PatrEPat Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12,135 0 WEndPatr Major M&R>=Critical 0 38,219 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Hutt SandHigh Major M&R>=Critical 0 6,315 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 his JohnFi%I Major M&R>=Critical 0 6,558 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Isla BroaToro Major M&R>=Critical 62,521 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 JayC WEndCrai Major M&R>=Critical 0 9,653 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Jeff DalyMarl Major M&R>=Critical 0 5,430 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Jenn SwazRach Major M&R>=Critical 0 4,482 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 John BishLaur Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 182,132 Kent HathBond . Major M&R>=Critical 0 13,822 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 King SandBran Major M&R>=Critical 0 6,175 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Kntw SouwSEnd Major M&R>=Critical 0 16,447 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Lake BalbOcea Major M&R>=Critical 0 8,269 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Laur JohnSout Major M&R>=Critical 50,281 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 LawD TangOrcu Major M&R x Critical 0 8,571 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 LeeA NEndTanD Major M&R>=Critical 0 6,447 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Appendix Pavement Management Plan Page A 8 Leff NipoOsos Major M&R>=Critical 0 32.642 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 OsosSRos Major M&R>=Critical 12,026 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 LEnt SEndCata Major M&R>=Critical 0 11,466 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Lima MadFHuas Major M&R>=Critical 0 20.402 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Linc BroaChor Major M&R>=Critical 6.955 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ChorWes Major M&R>=Critical 48,490 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 HillBroa Major M&R>=Critical 0 5.364 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 L.ia JohnWild Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 18.339 LLom EndLCerr Major M&R>=Critical 0 4,403 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Long HathSlac Major M&R>=Critical 12,014 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Loom BVisSMig Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11,978 0 SMigSYne Major M&R>=Critical 11,685 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 LOVR IOILVerd Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16,667 LRob OakrEend Major M&R>=Critical 0 6,012 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Lune LaFnVerd Major M&R>=Critical 0 30.800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 WEndLaEn Major M&R>=Critical 5,269 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Mado LOVRPere Major M&R>=Critical 13,720 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 OceaPO Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 66,152 PODali Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 32,844 MarC NEndOcea Major M&R>=Critical 0 4,127 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Mae SHigEnd Major M&R>=Critical 0 40,101 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Marl PatrJeff Major M&R>=Critical 0 14,070 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Mars 1ohnCali Major M&R>=Critical 25,954 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 SLCKNipo Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 62,501 0 0 MCC] GranBVis Major M&R>=Critical 36,151 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 McMi NEndMori Major M&R>=Critical 0 0 4,172 0 0 Appendix Pavement Management Plan Page A 9 0 0 0 0 0 Mein BroaChor Major M&R>=Critical 0 14,749 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Mill CaliGrov Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 62,363 OsosSRos Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 78,027 Mitc MeadBroa Major M&R>=Critical 32,554 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Mnta LemoElle Major M&R>=Critical 10,382 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 LincSCrk Major M&R>=Critical 0 3,941 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 SRosLemo Major M&R>=Critical 12,693 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Mont NipoBroa Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16,115 0 0 Pepp101 Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 143,902 0 SRosToro Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 19,905 0 0 Montr PasaSkyl Major M&R>=Critical 0 24,645 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Morr MarsPism Major M&R>=Critical 6,673 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 MontMars Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 61,201 0 PaImMont Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 18,258 0 0 PismUpha Major M&R>=Critical 0 29,028 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Mouv HillUnc Major M&R x Critical 0 25,624 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Mutr BroaSRos Major M&R>=Critical 27,537 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Nipo HiguMars Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 47,289 0 0 MarsBuch . Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 34,685 0 0 PalmHigu Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 91,470 0 Oakr HlanNend Major M&R>=Critical 0 13,681 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ocea MadoPinc Major M&R>=Critical 0 18,911 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Olea NEndlron Major M&R>=Critical 0 3,503 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Oran HathBond Major M&R>=Critical 0 9,850 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Osos l Ol Waln Major M&R>=Critical 2,528 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Appendix Pavement Management Plan Page A 10 ChurSPRR Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 19,913 MillHigu Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 39,309 0 0 Paci BroaSRos Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 57,684 0 0 JohnPepp Major M&R>=Critical 0 9,769 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Palm NipoSRos Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 453,565 0 0 Pasa MiraSkyl Major M&R x Critical 0 14,276 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Peac NipoBro Major M&R x Critical 20,637 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ToroPepp Major M&R>=Critical 20,479 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Penn BuchEEnd Major M&R>=Critical 4,842 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Pepp MarsPaci Major M&R>=Critical 0 4,500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Pere MadoGarc Major M&R>=Critical 0 14,806 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Phil CaliPark Major M&R>=Critical 0 23,654 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Pism HigttNipo Major M&R>=Critical 50,445 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NipoOsos Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 59,751 Prad SL.CkHigC Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14,037 SL.CkHigN Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4,822 Pric HighBran Major M&R>=Critical 16,669 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 RacC RachEEnd Major M&R>=Critical 0 5,983 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Rafa RamoSEnd Major M&R>=Critical 0 12,172 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ramo L.EniTass Major M&R>=Critical 243,274 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ranc ClovWest Major M&R>=Critical 0 9,250 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NEndClov Major M&R>=Critical 0 3.258 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Rock PerkBroa Major M&R>=Critical 45,089 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Rose LaurSEnd Major M&R>=Critical 16,512 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Rosi FootCRom IMajor M&R>=Critical 0 3,142 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 SaCa DeICHele Major M&R>=Critical 0 6,624 0 0 0 Appendix Pavement Management Plan Page A I 1 0 0 0 0 0 Sacr Capilndu Major M&R>=Critical 0 32,721 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Sand BeebBma Major M&R>=Critical 0 60.853 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 SBar LefBroa Major M&R>=Critical 60,187 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 SJos WEndLEnt Major M&R>=Critical 0 10,751 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Sklk WoodSEnd Major M&R>=Critical 11,712 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Skyl MiraPasa Major M&R>=Critical 0 9,869 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 MontMira Major M&R>=Critical 0 15,878 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Slac LongGran Major M&R>=Critical 42,496 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Smit WEndlohn Major M&R>=Critical 0 7,231 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 SnDr HeIcAugu Major M&R>=Critical 0 0 10,390 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Sout FernKent Major M&R>=Critical 4,758 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Kentlohn Major M&R x Critical 7,817 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 SinsLaur Major M&R>=Critical 22,783 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 WoodFern Major M&R>=Critical 4,493 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 SRos HiguMars Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 87,773 0 0 PalmHigu Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 156.691 0 0 PeacPalm Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 89.102 0 PismSPRR Major M&R>=Critical 0 33.610 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 WalnPeac Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 86,469 0 0 Staf Cali Kent Major M&R>=Critical 0 12,664 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 KentEEnd Major M&R>=Critical 0 16,752 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Swee RockBma Major M&R>=Critical 0 0 11,854 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TanD JohnSyca Major M&R>=Critical 0 10,189 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Kentlohn Major M&R>=Critical 0 12,159 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 SycaEdge Major M&R>=Critical 0 34,418 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Appendix Pavement Management Plan Page A 12 TFRd HiguEC/L Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 31,843 0 PoinSPRR Major M&R>=Critical 48,957 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TngC NEndTanD Major M&R>=Critical 0 3,467 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Toro MontSLCK Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 106,075 0 PhilWaln Major M&R<Critical 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15,158 0 TwiR WEndEEnd Major M&R x Critical 0 0 23,341 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Upha HighChor Major M&R>=Critical 22,134 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Vena ChorLinc Major M&R>=Critical 0 14,737 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Verd LuneEEnd Major M&R>=Critical 0 10,650 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Vice PeriCayu Major M&R>=Critical 0 27,954 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Wild 1 077 Fnd Major M&R>=Critical 19,655 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Wils GrovPark Major M&R>=Critical 0 13,925 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Wmon PatrWJef Major M&R>=Critical 0 16,694 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 WNew NewpCora Major M&R>=Critical 0 13,330 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Wodb BroaVict Major M&R>=Critical 0 7,364 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total Sum of Major Above Critical Funded 1,499,50 1,499,78 108,365 0 0 8 6 Total Sum of Major Under Critical Funded 0 0 1,391,25 1,497,96 1,497.943 8 2 Appendix C Five year work plan Appendix Pavement Management Plan Page A 13 Appendix D Bus Route Impacts to Surface Condition Bus Routes Surface Material Rank AAC AC APC PCC Downtown % of Area Used by 66.6% 0.0% 86.1 0.0% Streets Buses % % of Length used by 55.4% 0.0% 82.2 0.0% Buses % Arterial Streets % of Area Used by 77.7% 15.3% 100. 1100.0 Buses 0% % % of Length used by 75.6% 97.0% 100. 100.0 Buses 0% % Collector Streets % of Area Used by 22.6% 45.1% 51.7 0.0% Buses I % % of Length used by 27.9% 45.4% 53.8 0.0% Buses Local Streets % of Area Used by 1.9% 3.9% 17.9 0.0% Buses % % of Length used by 1_.8% 3.4% 17.9 0.0% Buses I I % AC Asphalt Pavement. AAC Asphalt Pavement that has been overlaid. PCC Concrete Pavement. APC Concrete Pavement that has been overlaid with asphalt. Appendix Pavement Management Plan Page A 14 Appendix E Existing Pavement Deficiency Family Existing PCI PCI in 10 years Current Deficiency Central Business 48 35 $1,900,000 District Streets Arterial and 60 44 $7,700,000 Collector Streets Local Streets (Not 80 64 $3,600,000 resurfaced) Local Streets 68 52 $3,400,000 (Already resurfaced) Streets used for Bus 56 43 $7,600,000 Routes (Included in above families) Total Deficiency 70 55 $16,600,000 Appendix Pavement Management Plan Page A 15 Appendix F Condition Central Business 200 District=$.150;000 per year so eo Avg - Condition - ao 20-- 0 - - - - -Z -- s a Year. Appendix Paverdcht Wfiagemept Plan Pag6.Al6 Appendix G Annual Work Plan Fu9YM S9D Vea 7liid Yea AM%dy [JI 4b W An JU CL NN OBC F�IW&6 IMW I" JU JA9 Ift JCkR IN.IMC An rm fug An hnuatayefdlrtnemaf PlannaRaim Prapefirg Plat for hila IBS Pm*ng Flas tar M R Acgarn . FgyavgPaslaMaa9dxe Fwann 9 hfrdSbUM e QxMmm d MRRocran CMw=irgMawFaa R9ea tblity Rniea d UwRCJGIfMU, Q D Thsschedule re4iiresskMmrsnims Filled Basirdcatemkprogamt ranaread aersgtUlMtprgedsnayneed mve thedly. UfledBmmirdcEdevorkprogan lead timetobeawarrplista Whnft acMesomwninaell awkcum atthe sdredia sametima Appendix Pavement Management Plan Page A 17 Appendix H Budgets required in one year to raise overall pavement condition. 18000000 - 16000000 -- 14000000-- 80000001600000014000000 12000000 - 13 Major above dYdical 10000000 ❑Major below Critical Im0 ❑Seal M 8000000 - ■Preventive : . a Stop Gap 6000000 - - - 4000000 ; 2000000 _ - -- 0 _ 97 86 84 Y 80 72 71 70f PCI Appendix Pavement Management Plan Page A 18 Appendix I PAVEMENT MAINTENANCE AREAS PLAN Total Square Meters per Area 1. 256340. 6. 243708. 2. 267523. 7. 256613. :. \I 3. 254971. 8. 242216. 4. 266063. 9. 87083. 5. 2321,�1. tOial 2106648. APRIL 1998 ot Sri.^o�/fti�r I F— f Appendix Pavement Management Plan Page A 19 Appendix J One Year - $4 Million Program Sum of Funded Work Street Limits Major M&R >= Critical Micro Surface Abbo GranHend 0 5,738 AH Fe1MNEND 0 6,891 Alic MargNEnd 0 1,316 Alis NEndCara 0 1,692 Almd CentMiss 0 5,026 Alph BroaEEnd 7.070 0 AM FlorEEnd 0 6,402 Alta NEndCara 0 3,230 Anne WEndPatr 0 4,184 Andr ConeEEnd 0 2,717 MontEEnd 0 1,740 SLDCone 0 3,872 Aral EEndBroo 0 3,243 Ashm WEndWave 0 3,699 Atas GallOcea 0 10,471 Augu BishGerd 26,131 0 GerdLzur 28,264 0 Auto LOVREnd 0 8,756 Aval Ocea0cra 0 5.792 Bahi Alr1SEnd 0 1,871 Balb OceaCora 0 10,722 Band CorrSEnd 0 1,633 Barr NEndSout 0 3,936 BBee HighSand 0 2,660 SandSout 0 4,187 Bent MeinMurr 0 5,071 Binn EIIaSEnd 0 1.487 Bish AuguJohn 0 4,142 BushAugu 0 7,264 John264E 5.295 0 B1Ct EndBlue 0 1,012 Blue WBCtRock 0 4,041 Bond HathKent 0 4.866 Kentlong 0 2,430 Bone EmplSuel 0 5.447 Boro AtasMado 0 1,531 Boug PoinHoll 0 7.032 Boul SylvSEnd 0 11,900 BoxW WEndWave 0 2,975 Boys ChorSRos 0 9,304 Appendix Pavement Management Plan Page A 20 Bran BeebBroa 0 20,066 Bres WEndSerD 0 525 Bria WoodEEnd 12:129 0 Brid BeeBEEnd 0 5.687 Broa MeinMwT 0 3,729 Murrl0l 52,916 0 Brok SouSWEnd 0 2,119 Broo TankSawl 0 5.297 Buch JohnSPRR 0 1,488 OsosSRos 10,333 0 SRosJohn 0 6,820 Bull 46786865 7.148 0 686S847S 0 1.288 847SWill 0 2,637 Wi114455 0 2,760 Bush FlorSEnd 0 4.875 B V is NEndLoom 22,561 0 CaJa NEndSend 0 3,980 Cali FootTaft 66,841 0 MontSLDr 0 5,550 TaftPhil 0 12,915 CaLu MargCaJa 0 6,417 CaMa NEndSend 0 3,784 Came MargNEnd 0 1,533 Capi CastEEnd 0 8,039 CapW SacrEnd 0 5,381 Carl NEndMari 0 1,640 Carl F1orEEnd 0 1.928 Carp FootHath 0 2,116 Casi DiabEnd 0 2,223 Cast NEndPref 0 5,546 Cata LaEnEnd 0 1,862 Caud BroaVict 0 2,602 WEndMead 0 755 Cava GallGail 0 9,471 Caza SanLAlis 0 6,778 Ceci AuguEnd 0 3,467 Cent BroaLinc 24,889 0 CerC CerrEnd 0 1,293 Cerr CuesFerr 0 5,877 JeffCues 0 6,652 LosCRosi 0 4,872 PatrJeff 0 4,633 RosiPatr 0 1,866 Chan MitcLawr 0 1,690 Chor FootWest 0 9,064 Montmgu 0 21418 Appendix Pavement Management Plan Page A 21 PaImMont 0 2,165 PismBuch 0 3,463 WestUnc 0 16,560 Chri CraiWarr 0 3,202 Chup WEndLPm 0 7,842 Chur BroaSBar 0 8.050 NipoBroa 10,659 0 OsosEEnd 0 2.243 Cirna WoodEEnd 0 1.671 Goa LOVRNend 22,520 0 GOV PtriRanc 0 1,732 RancSkyl 0 5,061 Coli NEndRor 0 3.433 Colu PoinEEnd 0 3.220 Cone C17aEEnd 0 4,254 Cord FramEnd 0 7,831 Carl GaUGulf 0 8,618 Coro FlorEnd 0 2,552 Corr Corr 0 4,347 SendWood 0 5.639 Cort PrefNEnd 0 3,314 Coup WestDart 22,718 0 Crai NendPatr 0 2,290 PatrJeff 0 4,831 Cres TanDTanD 0 7,344 Coca NEndRoya 0 3,294 Cues FootHlan 0 9,070 Cumb WoodEFnd 0 1,603 Cycl WEndHoll 0 3,602 Cypr BranHigh 0 5,195 Dahl PoinEEnd 0 2,619 Dali MadoEnd 0 3.614 Daly AMP= 0 1,533 Dan CuesCoup 0 2,593 DeAn De1RSFnd 0 2,695 DeIR CordDiab 0 3,906 DescPref 0 4,414 DiabPort 0 6,853 PonDesc 0 985 Desc DeIRLOVR 0 5,444 LOVRVist 0 7,164 Dese WEndCasa 8.381 0 Diab CityDeIR 0 3,079 De1RI.OVR 0 5,633 LOVRVist 0 4,405 DMar WEndRamo 0 6,701 DNor 145WLEnt 0 2,976 Appendix Pavement Management Plan Page A 22 Rarno145w 0 3,792 Donn WEndJeff 0 1,973 Drak OceaBelb 0 6.997 DSur RamoLEnt 21,841 0 Dunc NEndOrcu 0 4.494 ECeC NEndEICe 0 3,178 Edge HarnnSorw 0 1.198 SotwSEnd 0 3,192 EICa NEndF3or 0 2,630 EICe SanLCorr 5,535 0 EICr EICeEnd 0 7,432 Elle MbanSEnd 0 1,451 NendMban 0 3,118 E1mC RamoEEnd 0 653 EIPa EICeEnd 0 2,499 EITi NEndMado 0 4,836 EMer MadoSEnd 0 11,408 Empl BoneGran 0 3,909 Empr BonePrad 0 4,239 Enci NEndEICe 0 1,905 Escu VistSEnd 0 1,846 Este NEndMarg 0 2,238 Expo SouSCorr 0 8,766 FaiW NEndRoya 0 3.375 RoyaPart 0 1,591 RIM HlanPatr 0 7,579 Felt CuesFerr 0 5,079 TassCues 0 1,372 Fem SoutOrcu 38.654 0 Fixl WendU7z 4,188 0 Flet BoulLcon 0 2,461 FIoA BishSanC 0 2,188 BushBish 0 2,750 Flor CarlElCa 0 2,785 SydnEJPa 12,779 0 Foot WGLLCer 0 6,080 Fram MiraEnd 0 6.376 Fran BroaVict 0 2,294 Fred HathLong 0 7,537 LongGran 41,320 0 Fu11r EndSunf 0 7,546 Gail CaudSEnd 0 1,538 Gall OccaAtas 0 11,525 Gana CorrSEnd 0 1.633 Gard BuchUpha 0 11.200 Gerd INEndAugu 0 2,260 Gold IPoinSEnd 0 2,258 Appendix Pavement Management Plan Page A 23 Grav GarfAbbo 0 2,526 Greg JohnEEnd 0 1.385 Gret AuguSydn 10,451 0 Gma EmplSuel 0 7,084 SHigEntpl 0 4,965 Grov PhilMont 21,799 0 WilsPhil 0 5.424 Gulf LakeAtas 0 6,115 Harm SequEdge 0 5.529 Hath Carpcali 0 8.632 L.ongCarp 0 8,889 Hays Gran70He 0 6.897 Hend GarfAbbo 0 2.541 L.00mSlac 0 10.277 Henr GeorElla 0 774 hisGeor 5.529 0 Herm L.EntLune 0 5,355 HigF HiguGran 0 4,631 High HiguCypr 0 7.696 SPR RSBar 0 1,776 Higu SC/LVacE 0 2,265 VachSubr 0 2.139 MIS LincSEnd 0 7,939 NEndLinc 0 4.940 Hlan PatrEPat 7,840 0 PatrPatr 0 4,620 WEndPatr 0 12,508 HOW BougTaFa 0 8.868 Howa WEndPhil 0 2,134 Huas MadFCayu 0 9,242 Humb BroaVict 0 2,888 Hutt BranSand 0 2,407 SandHigh 0 2,393 his JohnFixl 0 2,409 Iron BrooWave 0 6,408 Isla BroaToro 0 18,006 Jah DeIRSEnd 0 2,695 Jami NEndTanW 0 1,690 JayC WEndCrai 0 4,197 Jeff CRomHlan 0 8,194 DalyMarl 0 1,880 FootCRom 0 1.047 MarlWmon 0 1,846 Jenn SwazRach 0 1,322 John Bishl-aur 0 41,175 LaurSout 64,093 0 SoutOrcu 0 14,640 Appendix Pavement Management Plan Page A 24 r � Kent HathBond 0 3,981 King BranSouS 0 1,304 HighSand 0 2,361 SandBran 0 2,434 SouSSEnd 0 4,873 Kntw SouwSEnd 0 4,737 LaCi NEndJohn 0 3,078 Lade WoodSEnd 0 2,752 Lagu LOVRVist 0 8,593 Lake BalbOcea 0 3.037 LaLu DeIREnd 0 2.695 Laur FlorJohn 0 2,145 JohnSout 50.281 0 Lavi Lagu VisL 0 1,700 LawC LawnEEnd 0 1.606 LawD TangOrcu 0 3,672 Lawn WEndMead 0 1,913 LCan CRomTolo 0 5,077 L.Ceff NEndFoot 0 8,215 LeeA NEndTanD 0 2,443 Leff OsosSRos 12,026 0 LEnt CataFoot 0 7,692 SEndCam 0 4,842 Leon SanCFIet 0 1,817 SanCSEnd 0 2,693 Lily PoinEnd 0 2,227 Lima MadFHuas 0 8.041 Linc BroaChor 7,347 0 ChorWes 48,490 0 HillBroa 0 1,970 Lin MargNEnd 0 1,328 Ira John Wild 0 4,381 LLom EndLCerr 0 1,808 Lobe WEndHoll 0 4,222 Long HathSlac 13,152 0 Loom SMigSYne 11,404 0 LOVR IOILVerd 0 4,800 DescPerf 0 10,260 L.osVerdes 0 3,660 MadoEC/L 0 2,406 OceaRoya 0 9,880 PerfOcea 0 28,318 RoyaMado 0 14,625 WC/LDesc 0 28,490 LPic EndExpo 0 1,010 LPra MariSHig 0 6,431 LRob 10akrEend 0 2,209 Appendix Pavement Management Plan Page A 25 Lune 1.,F Verd 0 13,391 VerdEEnd 0 3,901 WEndLaEn 5,269 0 LVin JohnEEnd 0 3,292 Mado CILLOVR 0 7,520 DaliElMe 0 10,970 ElMel01 0 27,720 LOVRPere 13,300 0 OceaPO 51,928 0 PereOcea 0 17,500 PODali 0 6,704 Madr CorrSEnd 0 1,572 MatC NEndOcea 0 1,794 Marg SHigEnd 0 17,435 Mari LPraLPra 0 10,233 Marl PatrJeff 0 5,332 Mars JohnCali 31.273 0 SLCKNipo 0 18,000 SRosJohn 0 20,064 Marta NEndLVin 0 1,586 McCI GranB Vis 36,151 0 McMi NEndMori 0 1,814 Mead SOUMitc 0 10,358 Mein BroaChor 0 4,352 ChorSRos 0 4,398 Migu NOENViEs 0 2.585 Mira PasoSkyl 0 4,028 MirD FramEnd 0 7,300 MisL BroaSEnd 0 2,756 Miss BroaChor 0 5,112 ChorLinc 0 4,985 Mitc MeadBroa 32,554 0 Mnta LemoElle 10,382 0 LincSCrk 0 1,714 SRoslsmo 12,693 0 Mont ChorSRos 0 16,560 ToroPepp 0 9,225 Montr PasaSkyl 0 7,098 Mort PismMars 7,828 0 UphaPism 0 11,000 Mout/ Hillf nc 0 7,752 MrGI TaFaFull 0 6,857 Murr BroaSRos 27,537 0 Newp WNewEEnd 0 8,476 Oakr HlanNend 0 5,465 Oakw KenlEEnd 0 1,340 Ocea MadoPinc 0 8,222 Appendix Pavement Management Plan Page A 26 Olea NEndlron 0 1,523 Oliv SRosLemo 0 3,430 Oran HathBond 0 3,511 Osos 101 Waln 2,397 0 ChurSPRR 0 3,705 PaciChur 0 15,216 Paci JohnPepp 0 3,956 Palo RamoSerr 0 5,711 Part QuaiQuai 0 9,417 Pasa MiraSkyl 0 6,117 MrosMira 0 5,075 PatC PatrEEnd 0 2,595 Patr DalyHigh 0 4,191 HighFoot 32,184 0 TwinPatr 0 4,877 Peac ChorOsos 18,743 0 SRosToro 0 3,442 ToroPepp 20.479 0 Penn BuchEEnd 4,842 0 Pew MarsPacl 0 1,328 PhilMars 0 13,141 Pere MadoGarc 0 6,437 Perk RockBroa 0 1,763 Phil CaliPark 0 7,156 JohnPepp 0 2,531 Pine MadFOcea 0 6.309 Pism HiguNipo 50,445 0 OsosSRos 0 3,485 SRosJohn 0 7,709 Poin BougTaFa 0 6,825 LilySnap 0 13,658 TaFaLlly 0 17,411 Popp MrGIEAEN 0 2,678 Port 21IEDeIR 0 3,428 Capi21 I E 0 1,392 Prad HiguECIL 0 18,817 Pref HedlLO VR 0 16,116 WEndHedl 0 15,261 Pric HighBran 16,669 0 Prkr Highsous 0 5,733 QuaC NEndQuai 0 1,396 Qum PartRoyW 0 6,154 Rafa RamoSEnd 0 5,292 Ramo DSurLEnt 0 5,702 ElmVerd 0 1,670 LEntTass 246,568 0 PaloBroa 0 5,712 Appendix Pavement Management Plan Page A 27 TassElm 0 1,771 VerdPalo 0 4,565 Ranc ClovWest 0 3,798 NEndClov 0 1,376 Reba WEENAugu 0 1,902 Rica NOENSacr 0 5.044 Robe NOENViEs 0 2,335 Rock PerkBroa 45,089 0 StonPerk 0 1,843 RosC PoinEnd 0 2,780 Rose LaurSEnd 0 4,755 Rosi CRontNend 0 1,388 FootCROm 0 1,366 Roug WEndEEnd 0 3,515 RoyC NE.ndRoya 0 1,998 Royal FatrLOVR 0 20,000 LOVRGaII 0 5,415 RubiFair 0 2,323 Rubi NEndRoya 0 4,030 SaCa DeICHele 0 11$80 FlorLeon 0 2,223 HelcAugu 0 4,271 LeonDelC 0 2,255 WEndFlor 0 1,561 Sacr Capilndu 0 12,897 NEndCapi 0 5,680 SanA DescPref 0 4,293 SanC DescEEnd 0 4,171 Sand BeebBroa 0 22,354 Sant HeleSaCa 0 4,372 SawC BrooEEnd 0 1,794 SBar LeffBroa 46,867 0 Scaw PineOcea 0 4,162 Send WoodEFnd 0 1,603 Sequ H=SouW 0 762 SerD SerHBroa 0 10,180 SerH WEndSerD 0 3.542 SieW EIIaNBis 0 4,463 NBisBish 0 4,043 S3os WEndl.Ent 0 3,425 Sklk WoodSEnd 11.712 0 Sky] MiruPasa 0 3.890 MontMim 0 4,573 Slac LongGmn 41,476 0 SLDr Calilohn 0 20,130 SLuc ICRonTolo 0 4,833 Smit WEndlohn 0 2,850 Appendix Pavement Management Plan Page A 28 Snde CorrSEnd 0 2,597 Sonr VistWEnd 0 1.781 Sous WEndHigu 0 4,119 soul FemKent 5.023 0 JohnSyca 0 4,275 KentJohn 8,029 0 LaurWaod 0 3,907 SinsLaur 22,783 0 WoodFem 4,891 0 SRos PismSPRR 35,304 0 Staf CaliKent 0 4,799 KentEEnd 0 4,943 Sten NendMurr 0 4,761 Ston WRocBroa 0 6,719 Star HighBran 0 4,802 Suel BoneGran 0 5,096 Sunf FullPoin 0 7,895 Swee RockBroa 0 3,679 Sydn FlorEEnd 0 2,306 GretAugu 0 1,203 HeleGret 0 4,023 JohnFlor 0 4,471 TanD JohnSyca 0 3,428 Kendohn 0 4,091 SycaEdge 0 13,749 Tass FootRamo 0 3.029 RamoSEnd 0 6,565 TOIOFDot 0 7,068 TFRd BroadPoins 0 9,614 PoinSPRR 50,301 0 SPRROrcutt 0 23,112 TngC NEndTanD 0 1,423 Tolo SLucTass 0 4,185 Toro PhilWaln 0 2,701 SLCKLeff 50,870 0 Tuh EndSunf 0 3.317 Tom WIINEnd 0 946 Twill W EndEEnd 0 10,148 Upha ChorMorr 0 2,969 HighChor 22,134 0 Vali MiraEnd 0 2,471 Vega VisBVisA 0 2,497 Vena ChorLinc 0 4,244 Verd LuneEEnd 0 4,373 Vice PcriCayu 0 9.676 Vict WoodFran 0 4,798 ViEs NOENSacr 0 6.025 Appendix Pavement Management Plan Page A 29 VisA VisCDesc 0 4,050 VISB DescSEnd 0 1,479 DiabDesc 0 8,456 VisC DescSEnd 0 2,519 VisBDesc 0 7,366 VisL LaViWEnd 0 12.627 Vist VistSEnd 0 1,530 Wain SRosToro 0 3,626 Ward SandHigh 0 2,464 Warr JeffPatr 0 4.656 Wave TankSAsh 0 8.617 Wild LizzSEnd 19,655 0 Will BullEnd 0 2,939 Wils GrovPark 0 4,321 Wist SuntEnd 0 2,889 Wmon PatrWJef 0 6,854 WNew NewpCora 0. 5,712 Wodb BroaVict 0 3,202 CorrLade 0 11,752 Ladelawt 0 7,342 WoSd NEndSend 43,902 0 Yarr PoinEnd 0 2,428 Zaca WEndSHig 0 7,239 Grand Total 1,733,961 2,265,806 Appendix Pavement Management Plan Page A 30 Dennis E. Johansen 805-543-0984 04/14/1998 11 : 57 : 18 AM r-2 MEETING C� AGENDA April 14, 1998 DATE ��y / ITEM # To: Honorable Mayor Allen Settle Members of the City Council - City of San Luis Obispo Re: Solid Waste Service Plan-Rate Structure Changes From: Dennis Johansen Consumer Dear above captioned individuals: At this morning's meeting of the Business Improvement Association(BIA), the board was presented the "Solid Waste Service Plan-Rate Structure Changes"by Mr. John Moss. We were told that your body was to review this document this evening. Although we were encouraged to attend tonight's meeting by Councilperson Smith,because I already have another meeting scheduled, it will be impossible to attend this evening. Submitting for your attention a carefully researched and thoughtful response to your staff s report will also be impossible do to the complexity and length of the report. At first glance, it appears that the new rate structure could be perceived as punitive enough as to discourage recycling at all. As evidence, I draw your attention to"attachment 4" near the rear of the report. If I understand the thought process used in this document, it would appear that the"stereo store"identified in the chart would pay $56 per month for one waste wheeler(picked up three times per week) and up to 1 cubic yard of cardboard per week. (Data from table one on page two of the fust set of attachments, and base recycling rate for commercial accounts from the table on attachment 3). If,however, according to attachment 4,the"stereo store"exceeds, even by a small fraction, the one cubic yard allowance of cardboard for that week, the rate would jump an additional $23.75 ($26.75 less the base rate of$3.00). There may be a rational to this thinking, but as of yet, I have not found it in the document. There is little double that the Council, staff and citizens have, through significant effort,placed the City at a very desirable level of recycling and well on the way towards meeting the year 2000 goal. I would encourage the council to receive this document"for study only"this evening,while hopefully engaging the residential and commercial consumers and giving them time to educate themselves concerning this subject. In all fairness, it's probably all in this document,but I hate getting things of this magnitude on such short notice. Also,would it be too tough to number all the pages of the document so that we can address the issues contained in a more orderly manner, and, if we are really trying to sell people on recycling,how about duplexing this thing and using half the paper to begin with. Your most humble trash generator, Dennis Johansen .� ❑CDD DIR / ❑FIN DIR �.. ❑FIRE CHIEF iTv"tJEY ❑PW DIR []4"ERKIORIG ❑POLICE CHF RECEIVED ❑yiGM EAM ❑RECDI11 �j _ C3'ML DIR ❑, E3 PERS DIR APR 1 4 1998 SLO CITY CLERK Dennis E. Johansen 805-59 .'-0989 04/11/1998 11 : 57 : 16 AX Y. 1 Facsimile Cover Sheet Date: 04/14/1998 Total Pages: 2 To: Mayor and City Council Company: City of San Luis Obispo Phone: Fax: 781-7109 From : Dennis E. Johansen Company: Jim's Campus Camera, Inc. 766 Higuera Street San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 Phone: 805-543-2047 Fax: 805-543-0984 Message. . . Howdy..... I know time is short, but since we first got a chance to see the Waste Management document this morning, I would appreciate it very much if this fax could reach the council and John Dunn before the meeing. Thanks Dennis Johansen SupeNoice 2.0 is atrademarkof Pacific Image Commis icatons,Inc.