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The Hoover City Council on Monday is slated to consider an agreement with the Alabama Department of Transportation that will provide $120,000 of money from the state for a pavement conditions assessment.
The city would chip in $30,000 for the assessment, which is estimated to cost $150,000, City Engineer Scott Promer said.
The money will pay for two people to drive a van around all 482 miles of city streets and use a laser scan to evaluate road conditions to help determine which roads need paving the most, Promer said.
Previously, a city employee has driven the roads and subjectively rated the roads on a scale of 1 to 5. This new process will be more objective because of the laser scanner and will automatically feed into the city’s geographic information system and color code roads according to their condition, Promer said.
The scanner also will help the city keep an inventory of other city assets along the roads, including traffic signals, streetlights, sidewalks, curbs, ramps, signs, pavement markings, drainage structures and guardrails, he said.
It should take less than two weeks to complete the drive-through and a month to six weeks to build a dashboard regarding the pavement conditions, Promer said. Other dashboards for the other city assets could be done in the future on an as-needed basis, he said.
The City Council also on Monday will consider about $230,000 of unexpected costs associated with the expansion of the National Computer Forensics Institute at the Hoover Public Safety Center, as well as grants from Jefferson County to assist with rebuilding the Hoover Lake House on Municipal Lane and assist the Hoover Police Department with community outreach efforts.
See the full agenda for Monday’s City Council meeting here.
See a video of the City Council work session from Thursday, Aug. 20, on the city's YouTube page.
The meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. at Hoover City Hall at 100 Municipal Lane and is open to the public.
