Lacey will not produce a State of the Streets report this year as it will switch from reporting annually to every two years, which the city’s Transportation Committee discussed Tuesday, November 1.
City Engineer Brian Petrin said the Washington Code does not require the city to report numbers annually, and the city staff is looking for ways to make processes more efficient.
"Growing network and weather limitations are causing our annual ratings to become increasingly difficult to complete," said Petrin, highlighting that he is the sole engineer in the city who works on the ratings.
"People don't realize the number of roads that are contained within our city limits," he added.
Petrin said the move to do the State of the Street report every other year would reduce city spending as it will promote a higher ratio of time spent on valuable data analysis than data collection.
Working on the said report would take a staff around five months, excluding weather and workforce limitations, said Petrin.
Although the move will break the city's current tradition of producing a yearly report, Petrin said fewer time constraints on staff would allow for more productivity elsewhere.
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