This study session reviewed the agenda for the March 9, 2026 regular council meeting, discussed pavement management, traffic signal detection, a new solar and battery storage power purchase agreement, and received an extensive update on the Sun Air renovation and the Off the Streets homelessness program. Council members debated the future of the emergency shelter program and directed staff to explore alternative funding and partnership models.
Welcome to the Mesa City Council study session. For March 5th, 2026. We know someone's had a birthday today. All members of our council are present. Vice Mayor, congratulations with the birthday. Item one is to review the agenda we have for our Monday, March 9th council meeting. Let's go through that agenda, Council. If you have any questions, uh obviously we know what to do. It's pretty simple agenda. Most of it's about procrument. Thank you, Ed and your team. And some uh zoning text changes. Mayor. Uh Vice Mayor, glad to have you back instead of on Zoom. It's uh it's good to be back. Thank you very much. Feel a little bit better. Item 4E uh is procurement contract for pavement management services. I think this would be a good opportunity to uh because I get a lot of questions about how we select roads for uh either upgrades or a slurry seal or how we repair them. So perhaps we can get a brief discussion on what this is and and how you go about selecting which streets and get repairs and when good morning, Mayor and Council. Uh Vice Mayor, we love nothing more than talking about pavements. So we're we're happy to be here. So do I explain. So um with me I have um our street superintendent who oversees our our paving program, Craig Brisboy. Um, and and so we'll just quickly go over what's in item 4E, and then we'll also get into our pavement management strategies and hopefully what's changing uh with this software that we're asking to be procured. So uh just the the council item is for two things, um, and it's over a three year period. So the first thing is it's a new pavement management software for us. It's gonna help us modernize and our data collection and analytics. And then also we are going to be getting laser-based or or or LIDAR uh surveys on all of our roadways over the next three years. Um this first year we'll be doing all of our residential and local streets. Uh next year we'll be doing collectors, and the last year we'll be doing our trials. Um all of this data that we're gonna be doing through the automated survey will be able to be automatically uploaded into the new software, which will help with um our pavement management treatments or or forecasting what what we need to do. And I I think especially what we're excited about is not just looking at the next fiscal year, uh, but we'll be able to forecast out multiple years uh for our pavement maintenance. Um and so those that sit on the audit and finance committee, this is one of the outstanding items that the transportation department has as part of their audit was to upgrade this software. I believe I talked to you a couple months ago uh about this was coming, and and so this is this is here. Um so that is that's what's on the agenda uh for Monday night. I think as we look at uh what our pavement management's strategy is, we we look at what's called our pavement condition uh index, and it's a it's a rating scale from zero to 100. Um we have some pictures here to hopefully kind of show you what different numbers are. Uh we we try to keep our pavement condition at 70, uh or that's what we want our average to be uh through throughout the city. Um so as of right now, what we do uh for both our collector and residential streets. We have pavement management technicians that are out visually inspecting our roadways each uh year, and we do those visual inspections. They they assign a PCI number to that. Um our arterials are actually we we do use the the um automated survey method for our arterials. That's why it's on year three uh of our plan here. We we've already done that in the in the last three years. Um our current software that we have can we we have to manually input all the data into it and it will, you know, and then we have to decurrent determine our forecast with it. So with the new software we're getting a lot more automated forecasting, um a lot better data management for us that that we hope we we can um use to really plan out the the next few years um in advance. Eric, do you have yes? Do you want to answer your question? No, no, go ahead.