Streets - City of Bartlesville

3.4 NETWORK RECOMMENDATIONS AND COMMENTS
The following recommendations are presented to City of Bartlesville as an output from the pavement
analysis, and must be read in conjunction with the attached reports.
1. The City should adopt a policy statement identifying the desired level of service and acceptable
amount of backlog. We suggest a PCI target that maintains the current network profile on the order
of 64, while maintaining the backlog at current levels.
An annual budget of $1.25M is required to achieve this goal.
2. The full suite of proposed rehabilitation strategies and unit rates should be reviewed annually as
these can have considerable effects on the final program.
3. All costs are in constant 2012 dollars. No allowances have been made for inflation or fluctuations in
rehabilitation costs. The City will have to monitor and factor in inflation for each budget year.
4. No allowance has been made for network growth or conversion of gravel roadways to pavement.
As the City expands or increases the amount of paved roads, increased budgets will be required.
5. No allowance has been made for routine maintenance activities such as crack sealing, sweeping,
striping or patching. These costs are assumed to be outside the pavement management costs.
Similarly the budget and unit rates used within this report do not include allowances for traffic
control and site preparation, striping and pavement markings, engineering and inspection,
landscaping, signals or signage upgrades, peripheral concrete repairs and miscellaneous costs or
contingency. Typically these burdens, in addition to City overhead costs, can add 25 to 35% to
the unit rates and overall budgets
6. No allowance has been made for compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, which is
required on all roadway rehabilitation projects that involve activities in excess of patching and
crack sealing. The act requires all rehabilitation projects to include the provision of handicap
ramp at all crosswalks and driveway approaches, minimum of 30-inch obstruction free clearance
along all sidewalks, and a maximum of 1-inch lip of asphalt above the curb line.
7. The City should resurvey their streets every few years to update the condition data and
rehabilitation program.
IMS Infrastructure Management Services Bartlesville 2012 Report Rev1 page 20