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ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION - JANUARY 18, 2022 3 at the transverse cracking, so when you travel that road, it's like you're hitting speed bumps every 20 feet. What is planned for next year is to do a two inch mill strip to remove pavement over the transverse cracks, then paving and patching. That should smooth out the section of road. The rest of the surface, which is still in good shape, will remain in place. The PCI is 56 but that looks like it also includes the western portion of Lake Valentine Road, which was repaved in 2014 or 2015 as part of the bridge project. So, the eastern half of Lake Valentine Road is what's bringing the PCI score down. What is planned for the summer with the transverse cracks should improve the condition of the road quite a bit. Public Works Director/City Engineer Swearingen showed a slide with the proposed 2022 street maintenance plan which includes preservation activities such as sealcoat, fog seal, crack sealing and large area patching. Most of the work is covered through the JPA with Coon Rapids, the patching will be done by our public works maintenance workers. Public Works will take the map, inspect all of the streets to be sealed coated and then determine the areas that need patches. This approach is different than previous years where public works focused their efforts on full width paving of street segments and will instead perform significant large area patching. Benefits of the large area patching are localizing the repair where needed and extending the useful life of the existing road that does not yet require rehabilitation. Using this approach enables repairs to be applied to dozens of streets instead of just a select few which results in the PCI raising at a higher rate. Councilmember Scott asked about the parking lot seal coat. Public Works Director/City Engineer Swearingen said that was a last minute delete on his part. That will be shifted to next year's street maintenance plan. The City Hall parking lot is scheduled to be rehabbed this summer, so they will give it two or three years before seal coating it. Councilmember Holden asked if they could add Lametti and Bussard Court to the Snelling Avenue project? Public Works Director/City Engineer Swearingen replied that in his opinion it would be too late to add them to the 2022 project. Councilmember Radziej said he was looking at the proposed PMP projects and noticed the greens are probably a little better pavement than the red, from 60 to 79 reading verses 20 to 39. Why will the projects in red will go before the projects in green? Public Works Director/City Engineer Swearingen responded that the Karth Lake neighborhood is relatively close to the same as what's in red, not including Bussard, but otherwise they're all within the mid 50s. What is proposed for this year's maintenance plan is to do large area patching within the southeast quadrant with a sealcoat applied over the top of those large area patchings. With that method the PCI should be raised and prolong the life of those roads until they do a real rehab project in 2028. If Council wishes to do the southeast quadrant prior to Karth Lake they would do a similar approach with large area patching with a sealcoat. Councilmember Holden asked if any street would go to total reconstruction.