Finance Committee - 10/04/2017 Page 8
Wayne Husband, Traffic Engineer
There was an error in the Finance Committee memo. The number should be $137,945.
Ms. Gill
It was a previous memo. We are doing the patchwork on Beauview, the previous motion.
Mayor Donchess
Didn’t you say $137,000?
Alderman Siegel
On this sheet in front of me, it is correct.
Mr. Husband
It’s in the Finance Committee memo.
Ms. Gill
The last sentence of the memo.
Mayor Donchess
The motion that was made was $137,000. And as you explained that consisted as one part of it for the
patching that we discussed and the other the extension of Beauview, west of Charlotte Street. | think we’re
fine with the previous motion.
The motion now has to do with the Change Order #1 of a value of $150,000, having to do with seal coating.
Ms. Gill
Okay. Sealcoating is sealing a couple of cracks in three streets. We have almost 15 to 20 to 30 streets which
have a very high PCI in the range of 90 which we would like to get cracked sealed this fall. We have already
spoken with SealCoating and they can take additional work if we get approval.
Mayor Donchess
These are streets where the PCI is good, 80-93 typically is the range. But, they have cracks in them which
makes them vulnerable to deterioration during the winter. Stantec who is now involved in a contract to after
two years take another look at various streets has suggested that we, the city, have not been doing enough
sealcoating, in other words fixing these cracks. The theory, and its more than a theory, the facts are if you fill
these cracks with sealcoat you raise the PCI from 87-93 into the high 90’s. You take a street that’s in pretty
good shape, but at risk of deterioration, you seal it up and put it in very tip-top shape. For the cost here of
$150,000 you can preserve five miles of streets and that’s what would be done here approximately. Five miles
of streets for a period of years. It’s like preventative maintenance on a fairly large number of streets for a
relatively small amount of money, $150,000. It would cost to pave, as an example, five miles of streets,
probably $1.5 million. This is ten percent of that. Is that accurate?
Ms. Gill
Yes, | agree with you.
