Taylor streets eligible for surfac work will be discussed Thursday during a City Council meeting.
On March 10, the council will receive an update on the city’s street level-up program for the 2021-22 fiscal year. City staff will also provide suggestions for road reclamation projects.
Public Works was budgeted $250,000 for this year’s level-up program, one of three approaches to repair a street. Materials used in a level-up add up to 3 inches on the surface but aren’t meant to be a permanent fix.
A road can either be leveled up, milled and overlaid, or reconstructed. City staff estimated in a 2021 workshop that leveling up a street costs $10 per linear foot. Mill and overlay work is $35 per foot, and basic costs for reconstruction jump to $675 per linear foot.
The program has finished addressing roads with a failed pavement condition index (PCI) score of 0-11. The next focus will be on roads with a PCI score of 11-17, which are deemed to be in serious condition. Subsequent PCI classifications are very poor, poor, fair, satisfactory and good. In August 2020 before the level-up program began, Taylor had 62.8 miles of streets ranked poor or below. The other 56.1 miles of roadway measured fair or above.
City staff say they will be working the reclamation program on Fifth Street in the cemetery, South Sturges Street, three blocks of Sixth Street, one block of Scott Street and parts of Mississippi Street.
In other business, the council is scheduled to:
• issue a Meals on Wheels proclamation;
• discuss and possibly direct staff regarding an amendment to the city’s comprehensive plan in relation to the pending Samsung semiconductor plan;
• consider an ordinance authorizing the issuance of combined tax and revenue certificates of obligation, series 2022, levying an ad valorem tax and pledging certain surplus revenues in support of the certificates, approving an official statement, a paying agent registrar agreement and other agreements relating to the sale and issuance of the certificates, and obtaining other matters relating to the issuance of the certificates;
• consider appointments and reappointments to various board and commissions; and
• enter into executive sessions on a waterwastewater rate agreement and the Justice Center.
The council meeting is 6 p.m. at City Hall, 400 Porter St., in the council chamber. Those wishing to address the council have a threeminute limit and must sign up by 5:45 p.m.
The council agenda and live video stream of the meeting can be found at http://www. taylortx.gov.
