Street Maintenance Advisory and Appeals Board finalizes $9 million list of proposed 2025 projects

On Thursday, the City of Abilene's Street Maintenance Advisory and Appeals Board finalized their recommendation to the Abilene City Council for approximately $9 million in street projects for calendar year 2025, including the full rehabilitation of some areas within the city limits.

The projects recommended by the board at Thursday's meeting builds on almost $40 million of previous street projects approved since the City began collecting a Street Maintenance Fee in 2019. The fee is paid by Abilene citizens who reside or do business within the city limits.

"The City is committed to improving our roadway infrastructure throughout the City," said Max Johnson, Director of Public Works.

"We must evaluate all roadway types to include residential streets, collectors, and arterial roadways as we progress with our street infrastructure improvements," Johnson said Thursday. "We have made significant gains over the past several years, and we know the City has a lot more work to do in the future. We are in a marathon when it comes to our overall street maintenance and repairs. We have a very good pace at this point, but we also have a very long race."

In 2024, a total of $8.12 million in street projects were approved by the City Council, amounting to 23.9 lane miles of roadway. For reference, Abilene has approximately 1,784 lane miles of roads within the City Limits.

For the full list of projects funded through 2024, see abilenetx.gov/streetfee

About the Street Maintenance Fund:

Since 2016, more than $125 million has been invested in roads from all funding sources. The street maintenance fee has raised $46 million since its inception in 2018. Other funding sources include bond funding, cash from the City of Abilene's General Fund. and funding from the Development Corporation of Abilene.

Approximately 25% of Abilene roads have been improved through all funding sources since 2016, an estimated 431.4 lane miles of the City's 1,784 line miles of roadway.

Projects being recommended to City Council from the Street Maintenance Advisory and Appeals Board for 2025 are as follows. Pending approval from the Council, these projects will be scheduled:

Full-Depth Rehabilitation

• 377.738.22 feet in the Lytle Estates area at an estimated cost of $2.04 million.
• 243,554.24 square feet in the C.W. Gill Park area at an estimated cost of $1.315 million.

Streets, Linear Projects

• Rebecca Lane (Phase I), from Catclaw Drive to Buffalo Gap Road, 205,984.00 square feet of pavement area at an estimated cost of $2.05 million.
• South 14th Street (Phase II), from Willis Street to Sayles Boulevard, 284,434.09 square feet of pavement area at an estimated cost of $2.685 million.
• North 18th Street, from Willis to Mockingbird, 64,231.20 square feet of pavement area at an estimated cost of $895,000.

Historical Street Maintenance Fee Funding (Money spent vs Lane Miles), 2020-2024

2020- $4,897,515; 46.3 lane miles

2021- $3,921,726; 48.7 lane miles

2022- $8,971,057; 58.1 lane miles

2023- $13,866,412; 55.8 lane miles

2024- $8,123,207; 23.9 lane miles

Total: $39,599,917, 232.8 lane miles

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