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Page 2 of 3 assessment”. In response to that comment Public Works tries to schedule pavement maintenance to prolong the life of streets, keep costs down and stay out of reconstructing streets. Unfortunately, reconstruction projects are not keeping pace with the need for pavement maintenance and rehabilitation. Bituminous overlays are one tool that is available to public works in the pavement maintenance arena. Public works currently has access to a paving machine that provides us the opportunity to place pavement on roads and parking lots. Other equipment used in the paving process available to public works include trucks for hauling material and rollers for compacting and finishing the surface. The value of doing this work ourselves is significant. Currently the city pays between $50 and $55 per ton for asphalt material. In contracts for small quantities we are charged $75 to $90 per ton for mix placed by a contractor or 50% to 60% more than we pay if we place the material. This cost difference provides us a significant savings in the maintenance budget. Projects that require the entire surface to be milled before the overlay are currently co ntracted as we do not have the specialized equipment necessary to mill the entire surface. Therefore, streets that have no curb are better candidates for maintenance overlay projects that public works staff can complete, although we were able to do a thin overlay on Harriet Avenue last year which is a street with curb. As we have discussed with the City Council at our annual Public Works Workshop , the Public Works department has been taking on paving projects as a maintenance function since the paving machine has been available. Some of the streets that have been overlaid in the last couple years include: Harriet Avenue, Hamline Avenue, Indian Place, Snelling Avenue shoulder, and various driveways and parking lots. This year Public Works has planned to take on couple paving projects including Ingerson Park parking lot and Thom Drive. The Parking lot at Ingerson Park was just recently paved. Thom Drive between New Brighton Road and Cleveland Avenue is by far the largest project we have considered undertaking as a maintenance project. The project will take between 600 and 750 tons of material at a cost of $30,000 to $40,000. It will require about a week of preparations including raising castings, milling edges and leveling depressions. The paving would take roughly a week also. Ramsey County Public Works and Arden Hills Public Works trades some services and equipment from time to time, Ramsey County will provide a large roller and tack truck to spray the surface with tack prior to paving. They also can provide tandem axel trucks to haul bituminous mix depending on the rate at which the trucks can keep up with the paver. Bituminous material is typically purchased from commercial asphalt in Blaine. As with any project that involves trucking the proximity of the source of material is often the deciding factor on where you will obtain materials. Pricing from Commercial Asphalt has been very competitive for the materials we use. Thom Drive had a PCI rating of 29 in 2013 and has had some patching and pothole filling since that time. This rating is on the high end of the border of the range for reconstruction. We project that this project would cost roughly $250,000 to reclaim and repave as a PMP in the future. An overlay of this road should stretch the life expectance out another 8 to 10 years making it