the back is really quite impressive,” Bealey
said. “It’s in between that it’s pretty darn
rotten. A lot of failingwater lines and failing
sewer lines and failing streets.”
To combat those issues, the city kick-started
an initiative in 2010 – the Infrastructure
Repair and Replacement Program (IRRP)
– to ramp up water and sewer rates to help
tackle the most immediate issues. Those
funds, which will ultimately yield $4
million to $4.5million per year, are the spur
for much of the existing renewal work being
done within the network of streets, water
and sewers.
Feedback from city residents in 2011
reflected a desire to make streets a priority,
so Bealey and his staff have gone about
constructing a “prioritization matrix” that
factors in road condition, daily traffic rates
and other infrastructure elements while
coming up with a top 25 list of projects to
handle.
The matrix and the full-fledged monetary
benefit from the IRRP should combine in
2016 to allow the city to begin handling
