Council Minutes - Town of Cambridge

COUNCIL MINUTES
TUESDAY 20 DECEMBER 2011
Maintain a Uniform Expenditure Level - Uniform funding each year is adequate to
maintain the current condition of roads for the next 20 years. The asphalt deterioration
algorithm predicts that the roads are deteriorating uniformly and there are no “crisis
years” where an abnormal length of road requires resurfacing in one year.
Using the components of this strategy, the original 20 Year Program (2010-2029) for Road
Resurfacing has been updated for preparing the Draft 2012/2013 Budget by listing:-
Roads that were resurfaced in the previous and current Budgets for identifying trends.
Distributor Roads that will be funded by Metropolitan Regional Road Grants in the
2012/13 Budget. These were applied for in April 2011 and were approved by MRWA in
November 2011:
ROAD SECTION FUNDING
Selby St
Grantham St
90m north of Ruislip Street to 90m north of Herdsman
Parade
Gregory Street to Marlow Street (excluding the
Harborne Street intersection)
$94,041
$252,979
Herdsman Pde Selby Street to Marlow Street $51,840
Grantham St Keane Street to Seymour Avenue $95,256
Harborne St 40m north of Dodd Street to Powis Street $18,144
Total Funding $512,261
Note: These grants only cover 2/3 of the total required for asphalt works.
Distributor Roads that should be considered for applying for Metropolitan Regional Road
Grants in 2013/14. Applications for these will be due in April 2012.
Roads that should be considered for resurfacing in the 2012/13 Budget due to age and
condition. These have been selected from the 2012, 2013 2014 and 2015 years of the
program based on a more recent inspection than the inspection by Pavement Analysis in
2009. As a result, the resurfacing of some roads is deferred and others are brought
forward in the program. In addition, adjacent sections of road of similar condition are
scheduled in the same year so that they may be resurfaced as one project and take
advantage of a lower price associated with the large asphalt order.
A section of road surface in Cambridge Street, between McCourt Street and Harborne
Street, has started to fail and requires replacing. This is listed in the 2012/13 Year.
The benchmark for resurfacing is 7.3 kilometres per year and is based on the average length of
resurfacing scheduled over the 20 year program. This is slightly more than the 2.3 kilometres
of Distributor Roads and 4 kilometres of Local Roads required on average because some of the
roads are more than 30 years old and some catching up is required.
The revised program is included in the report attachment and Budget 2012/13 works proposed
are Year 2012 listings.
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