Town Road Improvement Project Communication Plan

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Town Road Improvement Project Communication Plan

• General Communication January / February
• Information Wall Community Center
• Boulder Junction Town Road Map
• Create Four Books Handouts available in
  Town Office
• Road Building 101 General road construction
  info
• Town Road Survey What you should know!
• Road Specification Information
• Key Project Statistics
• Improvement Plan Options TBD
• Investment Options and Financials TBD
• Public Information Meeting Summary TBD

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Town Road Improvement Project Communication Plan

• General Communication February
• Road Specification Analysis
• Initial Option Creation
• Road Cost Information Updates
• Prepare for public information meetings in March

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Town Road Improvement Project Communication Plan

• Specific Communication March
• Option Cost Completion
• Borrowing and initial property tax impact
  analysis
• Public Information Meetings
• Project Overview
• Option Review and Feedback
• Three Question Face-to-Face Survey
• What do you like about this option?
• What concerns do you have about this option?
• How can we make it better?

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Town Road Improvement Project Communication Plan

• Specific Communication April
• Public Information Meeting Results
• Cost Confirmation
• Town Board Meeting Next Steps
• Board presentation at the April Meeting of the
  Electors

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Town Road Improvement Project Communication Plan

• Next Steps
• What suggestions / comments do you have?
• Request for next meeting
• Begin Option Discussion (Greg)
• Road Improvement Cost Updates (Dennis?)

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Town Road Improvement ProjectBurning Platform

• Roads are the Towns most important
  infrastructure asset.
• Important to residents, seasonal owners and
  visitors.
• Budget makes it impossible to adequately
  maintain.
• Able to patch / repair for routine wear tear
  only.
• Emergent major repairs heavy industrial use
  (logging) strain our abilities.
• Most common complaint from electors is roads
• Failure to act will just delay the inevitableand
  it may cost more in the future.

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Town Roads What you should know!

• Road Survey
• Mileage
• 93.17 miles surveyed
• 29.01 miles No improvement work currently
  required ( 29 )
• 64.16 miles Improvement work required ( 71 )

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Town Roads What you should know!

• Road Cost Estimate Matrix
• Matrix is based on 2015 data and will be updated
  to create the final plan options.
• Road Improvement Levels / Costs
• Gravel to Gravel - 40,000 per mile
• Gravel to Chip Seal - 60,000 per mile
• Chip Seal to Chip Seal - 95,000 per mile
• Chip Seal to Asphalt - 155,000 per mile
• Asphalt to Asphalt - 155,000 per mile

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Town Roads What you should know!

• Road Materials
• Asphalt
• Average Life span of an asphalt road without
  maintenance is 16 years to total failure.
• With regular maintenance and repair, it can be
  extended to 30 years or more.
• Asphalt is applied over the top of gravel,
  usually in two layers. The typical finished
  thickness is 3 ½.
• Chip Seal
• Chip seal was originally designed as a cost
  effective asphalt maintenance surface not
  necessarily a stand alone road surface.
• A chip seal surface is applied to a gravel base
  to provide a wearing surface and dust free
  environment.

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Town Roads What you should know!

• Handouts available in the Town Office
• All presentation materials available on the Town
  website www.townofboulderjunction.org