Washington will pay Martin-McGill up to $67,500 to develop a transportation asset management plan.

The plan, which will address the city’s surface transportation assets (streets, parking lots, stormwater infrastructure and such), will include a 10-year capital improvements plan and a financing strategy to fund the needed work, according to a memorandum from City Manager Brian Alligood to the mayor and City Council. The council, during its May 11 meeting, approved spending the money for the plan.

“The outcome of this project will result in several tangible deliverables for the City. First, our proposed project team will utilize the City’s recent street pavement and stormwater infrastructure assessments as a basis for compiling a comprehensive assessment of the condition of each asset and use this information to forecast needed capital improvements,” reads a letter from Martin-McGill to the city. “As the current stormwater data only covers approximately half of the City’s streets, valuations will be conducted of the remaining streets to create a complete data set. The condition ratings, provided by the City, will be used to develop a 10 year CIP and Funding Model. Information obtained and derived from this study will be summarized in a final report.”

Martin-McGill’s proposal addresses two main objectives. First, to produce an objective and prioritized plan for making needed surface transportation asset improvements that will be used to identify and prioritize capital project needs that can be addressed through the city’s overall capital improvements plan. Second, to evaluate alternatives for funded identified capital projects and develop an asset management process that addresses this growing transportation deficiency over the long term.

“As you recall, in previous meetings we’ve talked about need to make sure that we’ve adequately reviewed, evaluated and have a plan for our surface transportation needs. I know council has on numerous occasions spoke about our need to be able to resurface our streets in a timely manner and also be able to that and figure out a way to do that on the CIP and a funding stream,” Alligood told the council.