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URMD FY 2015-2016 Annual Report


      PAVEMENT CONDITIONS                                         ANNUAL ROAD                                                  MAINTENANCE STRATEGY                                        URMD BOUNDARY MAP


      Maintaining URMD streets                                    MAINTENANCE PROGRAM

     Since 1994, the URMD average                                URMD roads are routinely inspected and                      In 2011, URMDAC recommended and the Board adopted a
     Pavement Condition Index (PCI) has                          scheduled for cost-effective and timely                     target average PCI of 75 (with 90% at or above 65) for all

     improved significantly,  from 60 (with 23                   preventive maintenance.  Annually, about 25                 URMD-eligible roads. To reach this system-wide PCI goal,
     percent of roads rated in poor or very poor condition), to 81.7   percent of all URMD pavement surfaces are inspected   URMDAC recommended a consistent maintenance spending
     (with less than 1  percent in poor or very condition). A PCI of 100    and rated by an outside contractor. Planned preventive   strategy over 10 years, beginning in FY 2013-14. This
     represents a new road.                                      maintenance activities are included in Washington County’s   maintenance strategy is reviewed annually and adjusted as
                                                                 annual Road Maintenance Program. Public comment on the      needed. Currently, with an average pavement maintenance
     URMD MILES BY PAVEMENT CONDITION                            program is solicited prior to its adoption by the Board     investment of $750,000 per year, the target average PCI of 75

                                            Total Miles  450      of Commissioners.                                          is expected to be reached in 2023. At that time, URMD safety
      Total Miles  Total Miles  Total Miles  446.2                                                                           improvement project funding will need to be allocated to
       434.4       439.4        440.8                  400                                                                   pavement surface maintenance.

                                                       350       For efficiency purposes, URMD road surface maintenance
       AVG PCI     AVG PCI      AVG PCI     AVG PCI              treatments alternate each year between slurry seal and overlay          81  81
       82.9        82.4         82.5         81.7      300       treatments. FY 2015-16 was the last year the County used                         80   79
                                                       250  MILES  micro-surface treatments on URMD roads.                                                 78   77  76   75

                                                       200                                                                                                                                                N
                                                       150          25                                                              EXPENDITURE                                 PCI
                                                       100                                                                                                   $750,000                          Cities
                                                                    20
                                                       50                                                                                                                                      URMD Boundary

                                                       0          MILES TREATED  15                                                                                                            Urban Growth Boundary
                                                                                                                                                                                               Washington County
      2013         2014         2015        2016                    10                                                                    2016  2017  2018  2019  2020  2021  2022  2023
                                                                     5
        196         186           176        146        Very Good                                                                                                                                                          CWS Drainage
                                                                     0                                                         FY 2015-16 URMD
        216         227           241        274        Good             2014-15  2015-16   2016-17  2017-18                                                                              Contract surface
                                                                           0.0      4.0      0.0      0.0        Micro-Surface  EXPENDITURES                                              treatments                          4%
        20          23            22          24        Fair               15.6     0.0      21.6     0.0        Slurry Seal                                                                       10%
                                                                           1.9
                                                                                                      4.4
                                                                                             0.0
                                                                                    3.0
                                                                                                                 Overlay
         2           3             2          2         Poor                                                                 URMD expenditures were about $4.14 million – 88 percent of
                                                                                                                             which was for contracted services and related costs.
         0           0             0          0         Very Poor  DID YOU         In FY 2015-2016 URMD served over
                                                                                   25,000 acres of land, 66,000 tax lots
                                                                 KNOW?             and a population of over 200,000.         As part of an intergovernmental agreement, Clean Water
                                                                                                                             Services (CWS) provides storm water and drainage                                        75%
                                                                                                                             maintenance services along URMD-eligible roads.  URMD pays      Contract prep
                                                                                                                                                                                             and admin
      URMD STREETS TODAY                                         NON-URMD ROADS                                              CWS $150,000 to maintain facilities – primarily open ditches              3%       Contract Safety Improvements

      Success on the streets                                                                                                 and old piping systems – that CWS does not consider part of its
                                                                 Functional Classification  Centerline Miles  Target PCI  2016 Avg PCI
                                                                                                                             system.
                                                                    Urban Arterial        131          80          75
     URMD ROADS
                                                                    Urban Collector        73          75          74                                                                                                                   3%
     Functional Classification  Centerline Miles  Target PCI  2016 Avg PCI  Rural Arterial  73         80          75        URMD allocates $250,000 a year to the county’s Neighborhood         Maintenance     5%
        Neighborhood Routes    84          75*        81            Rural Collector       169          75          79        Streets Program (NSP) for coordination and funding of traffic-      service requests                    Neighborhood
        Urban Local           362          75*        81            Rural Local           176          65          68        calming activities on local neighborhood roads.                                                         Streets Program

     * Per URMD Intergovernmental Agreement (BCC16-127)

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