The Goleta City Council on Tuesday is set to approve a $10 million construction contract to improve conditions on select roads throughout the city.
The 2025 Arterial Pavement Project includes replacing pavement with hot mix asphalt, upgrading ADA-compliant curbs and updating traffic striping.
The project mostly will be focused on the northeast Goleta neighborhood, along with portions of Hollister Avenue, South Fairview Avenue, Storke Road, Calle Real, Berkeley Road and Los Carneros Road.
The project will be paid for using about $4.5 million left over from the 2024-25 fiscal budget and $6.6 million from the 2025-26 fiscal budget as well as funding sources from the city’s general fund, gas tax, SB1 Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account, the Local Surface Transportation Program and Measure A, according to a city staff report.
The $10 million is double the amount of money the city has spent on pavement construction in previous years. In 2024, the city spent $5.2 million on pavement construction, $4.7 million in 2023, and $5.4 million in 2022, according to a report on the city’s pavement conditions from February.
Joel Ririe, the city’s pavement engineer consultant, told the council in February that they would need to spend more money to maintain road conditions.
The city has an overall pavement condition index (PCI) score of 58 out of 100. Ririe told the council that if they wanted a PCI of 67, they would need to spend $25.1 million on pavement every year for the next 10 years.
The council is set to approve the $10 million project with Granite Construction Inc. as part of the consent agenda on Tuesday. The council also is expected to adopt the 2025-26 and 2026-27 operating budget and capital improvement program budget.
When the council reviewed the preliminary budget in May, city staff said that while the budget is stable, the city will need to find new revenue sources to support long-term infrastructure planning and unfunded projects, and to deal with the rising costs of maintaining aging infrastructure.
Tuesday’s meeting is scheduled to start at 5:30 p.m. in the council chambers at 130 Cremona Drive. Members of the public can participate in public comment via Zoom or by attending in person.