Item C: Review of Implementation of Street Bond Measure

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PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM A Pavement Management System (PMS) performs analysis of collected rating data and reports on the current and projected conditions of the street system. In addition, it is used to evaluate the effectiveness of planning and funding priorities, and provides guidance in the decision making process. The goal of the decision making process is to prevent pavement failures through judicious maintenance. The PMS used by the City of Eugene since 1987 is CenterLine. CenterLine was developed by Washington's League of Cities and Washington County Roads Administration Board in conjunction with the Washington Department of Transportation (WDOT). The PMS combines visual field inspection ratings, compiled under strict criteria, with computer tracking and condition analysis. The rating methodology for field inspections used prior to 2010 was the WDOT Standard method. Beginning in 2010 the rating methodology was revised to the WDOT's Extended (WSEXT) method, keeping the program consistent with industry standards. Eugene's FMS contains 25 years of historical data and has the ability to estimate financial needs and road conditions 20 years into the future. Starting with the next rating season the City will be converting from CenterLine to a new pavement management system yet to be determined. CenterLine no longer provides customer support, making it necessary to migrate all of our historical data to a new system. Rating data will still be collected using WSEXT method. A more complete description of this conversion will be reported in the future. Pavement Inspection Frequency Two predominant work efforts required to maintain the PMS are updating the street inventory and performing the annual inspection of surface conditions. City streets are divided into segments based on their Functional Classification (FC), pavement type, and geometric design. Segments are the basic unit for evaluating streets and surface conditions. A segment is defined as a portion of a street with a beginning and ending description. Changes in geometric features are used as a guide for determining segments. Examples of geometric differences are surface type, segment width, surface age, and extent of past rehabilitations. Field inspections are conducted by pavement raters who walk each individual street segment evaluating the pavement surface for signs of distress. City arterial and collector streets are inspected annually; residential streets inspections are completed in a three -year cycle; and off - street shared -use path inspections are completed in a two -year cycle. In 2010 and 2011 all streets were inspected to establish an accurate baseline using the WSEXT rating method. In 2012, the program resumed with standard annual inspection intervals as described above. ra