Item B: Funding Strategies for Transportation System Operations, Maintenance, and Preservation

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drainage systems, sidewalks, street lightingand street trees. Approximately88% of Eugene?s 484-mile street system is improved. ? Streets whose primary function is to provide access to individual properties. Typically, Local street they carry fewer than 1,500 vehicles per day.Eugene has approximately 345 miles of local or ?neighborhood? streets. ? Overall Condition Index, used to rate the condition of streets on a scale of 0 (very poor) to 100 OCI (excellent) ? The portion of the annually adopted budget used to fund ongoing or recurring Operating budget activities such as operations and maintenance, including staff costs. ? The ongoing work efforts required to operate and maintain Operations and Maintenance (O&M) the transportation system. Examples include keeping the City?s traffic signals and street lights in good working condition, responding to neighborhood and citizen traffic issues, pothole patching,sweeping (a stormwater service), pruning street trees, painting pavement markings, replacing damaged signs, maintaining median strips, and providing the necessary technical, planning and administrative support required to provide these services. ? The application of a surface layer of asphalt or alphaltic concrete. An overlaymay be a thin Overlay layerof material,such as a slurry seal or a ?skin patch,? or it may be a ?full overlay? which typically is thicker in depth and usually runs from curb to curb in width. ? The computerized system used by the City of Eugene Public Works Pavement management system Department to record data and generate reports about the city?s streets and their condition. ? The work done to preserve and extend the life of transportation system components. Preservation While maintenance work does protect road surfaces, the term ?preservation? usually is applied to more extensive repairs such as rehabilitation and reconstruction. Extensive street repair work that typically involves the excavation of the existing Reconstruction ? street to the road bed and the rebuilding of the road bed and surface layers of the street. Reconstruction generally is at least four to five times more costly per lineal foot than rehabilitation. Surface repairs to streets.Examples of rehabilitation work include slurry seals (on Rehabilitation ? low-volume streets) and full paving overlays. Trees planted within the public right-of-way. Through the NeighborWoods program, Street trees ? volunteers are encouraged to plant and provide initial care for street trees. The City provides long-term maintenance and specialized services such as pruning for street trees. The full range of transportation infrastructure, including streets, sidewalks, Transportation system ? bicycle facilities (bike lane and off-street paths), traffic signs and signals, and street amenities. The portion of the street in which vehicles operate. Typically, travel lanes are 10 to 12 Travel lane ? feet wide. A2