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City Council Minutes of 1/16/2007 independent street survey that was compiled by Bowen and Associates. The streets were rated using the Roadway Rating Condition Guide, which is used by most cities to rate their streets. The system uses a numbered system ranging from 10 to 1, 10 being described as new or like new condition and 1 being described as the roadway is nearly impassable. The streets were rated not only on the pavement condition, but also on the curb condition, ditch condition, storm sewer condition, ditch outlet condition, storm inlet condition, and the driveway pipe condition. Roadway repairs would also include sidewalk repairs, especially in areas where there are complete deteriorations and due to ADA standards requiring new features such as the red pavers and the truncated domes. Council asked. the Service Director if any consideration was given to split the repairs by ward. Mr. Limpert replied that the criteria used to rate the streets was strictly based on the condition of each street, not by ward. However, the Service Director said that he looked. through. the report and found that no one ward was slated to receive the bulk of repairs. Discussion was had on the concrete streets, which overall received better rating than the asphalt streets. Council questioned how it would be fair to the residents living on concrete streets who have not had repairs in years to prolong the waiting even more. Mr. Limpert replied that his staff was working in-house to repair many portions of the concrete streets. Council asked that there be a plan for concrete slab repair to be completed. in-house, with the money that is set aside for street repair each year. It was clarif ed that the slab repair that is being requested is a preliminary step to what would then become a complete repair with an asphalt overlay, due to the fact that total concrete repair is not economically feasible. Discussion was also had on the use of the city's crack sealer. Some members of Council felt that the crack sealer was not out nearly enough since being purchased. NIr. Limpert listed some of the streets that the crack sealer had recently repaired, such. as Park Ridge, Sunset Oval, Shelley, Tallwood, and Timber Cove. 1VIr. Limpert explained that the City used to have a contractor do all. of the crack sealing, and now they do this work in-house. Brookpark Road was brought up as needing crack sealing and, if repairing it is beyond the scope of the Service Department, then consideration. must be taken. to look: at the capital budget to see if we need to bring in an outside contractor to do this work. Questions were asked about what the Service Department staffing issues were and. if there was enough manpower to handle the workload. 1VIr. Limpert stated that they are trying to replace two retirees. Mr. Collins showed Council some of the pictures that he took of the streets that were observed. The Committee decided to continue the discussion surrounding the street rehabilitation projects for 2007, 2008 and 2009 at an additional Streets and Transportation Committee meeting later this month. 2) There will he a joint Streets & Transportation and Finance Committee meeting set for next Tuesday, January 23, to continue this discussion. Mayor O'Grady commented. for information purposes with regard to Council Member Jones' report that crack sealing alone is not a capital issue. Secondly, the question is what is the amount of crack sealing that has been done. He is very pleased to report that there has been a significant increase in crack sealing in 2006 over any previous year. On a separate issue, he amended his report to say that the city had two representatives at Gov. Strickland's inauguration as Council Member Nicole Dailey Jones was also present. 8