AGENDA CAPTION:
Title
Receive a Staff presentation on the City’s Five-Year Sidewalk Maintenance Program for Fiscal Year 2025; and provide direction to the City Manager.
Body
Meeting date: July 2, 2024
Department: Public Works
Amount & Source of Funding
Funds Required: $231,000
Account Number: 10006150.52505
Funds Available: $231,000
Account Name: Sidewalks
Fiscal Note:
Prior Council Action: Click or tap here to enter text.
City Council Strategic Initiative: [Please select from the dropdown menu below]
Public Safety, Core Services & Fiscal Excellence
Mobility & Connectivity
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Comprehensive Plan Element (s): [Please select the Plan element(s) and Goal # from dropdown menu below]
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☒ Transportation - Multimodal transportaion network to improve accessibility and mobility, minimize congestion and reduce pollution
☒ Core Services
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Master Plan: [Please select the corresponding Master Plan from the dropdown menu below (if applicable)]
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Background Information:
The Sidewalk Maintenance Program is a maintenance program to identify, inspect, prioritize, maintain, and repair unsafe or non-compliant Americans with Disability Act (ADA), existing sidewalks. The program also serves to meet City Council’s strategic initiative for a Multimodal Transportation system to improve accessibility and mobility, minimize congestion and reduce pollution. The program utilizes operational funds and a combination of in-house crews and contracted services to repair the city’s existing sidewalk infrastructure. The sidewalk maintenance program focuses on existing sidewalk infrastructure and does not include construction of capital improvement sidewalk projects.
Using citizen feedback from public meetings, email requests, SMTX Connect requests, and GIS analytics, the Public Works Department develops a 5-Year Sidewalk Maintenance Plan. The Sidewalk Maintenance plan prioritizes projects sidewalk issues in underserved and/or high pedestrian traffic areas, avoid tree conflicts, and create connectivity between existing sidewalks. All projects, once complete will meet ADA standards and improve accessibility and mobility for pedestrians around the city.
Council Committee, Board/Commission Action:
Neighborhood Commission- Meeting 6/26/2024
Alternatives:
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Recommendation:
Staff recommends council approval of FY25 5-Year Sidewalk Maintenance Plan