Engineering Department

Engineering performed surveying, design, construction estimates, materials testing, construction management, mapping, drawings and more in support of other City Departments and for certain capital projects.

The 2019 Annual Maintenance Project issued 47 Purchase Orders in the amount of $941K. Work orders were for parking, drainage, 86 sidewalk repairs, curb repairs pavement repairs and more.

During 2019, this work also included upgrade of 31 ADA ramps. This is part of keeping in line with Federal ADA Transitional initiatives. ADA improvements sometimes include the alley sidewalk crossings.

Engineering responded to site triangle reviews, signage complaints, and other citizen traffic complaints. Engineering also performed traffic/speed studies. The traffic counter tubes and/or radar speed signs were used and the total traffic count and speed limits were extracted from the data collectors. Some of the locations were: 1) Zoo Entrances 2) Bay Meadows 3) Riverside – west of Sycamore 4) N. Sycamore between 2nd & 8th 5) E. Hobson Road – west of US 285 6) N. Montana

City Manager: Joe Neeb Director of Engineering: Louis Najar

Some of the completed projects for 2019 were Montana/Stone Realignment, $413 K.

For east bound E. College at N. Garden: The outside driving lane was upgraded to 10” thick steel reinforced pavement to prevent the continued asphalt pavement failures due to semi truck loadings, $70K. S. Sycamore pavement rehabilitation in front of Sierra Middle School, $171K.

Engineering and Streets Department also worked jointly to complete Cemetery Roads Phase 3. Streets Department did grading and shaping of some of the existing cemetery roads, placed base course, and cold millings. Legislative Funds in the amount of $150k were used to apply asphalt emulsions and a “micro surfacing” as top lift.

Streets and Engineering also worked jointly to perform “hot recycling” of existing pavement and to construct a “micro surfacing” thin lift on the hot recycled pavement. Required streets were also surveyed and restriped with center line, shoulder line and cross-walk striping. Cost was approximately $1.1 million. Streets that were “hot recycled & micro surfaced” were

1. S. Main – Martin to Jaffa 2. Sycamore – Bland to 8th St 3. Alameda – Sauceda to Sunset Ave 4. Washington – College to 19th