Since 1988, the Village has utilized a pavement management program (MicroPAVER, formally PAVER) to determine our street maintenance priorities.  The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers developed MicroPAVER at their Research Laboratory in Champaign, Illinois.

The process involves a consultant inspecting pavement sections on approximately one-third of Village maintained streets per year and inputting the inspection results into the MicroPAVER program. Engineering Department Staff reviews the report and visually inspects the Village maintained streets and compares the consultant report with visual inspection. This program has been very effective over the years.

Infrastructure Management Services (IMS) completed Phase I (south end of town) of a three phase surface condition survey last fall. We would now like to move forward with Phase 2 (middle section of town). For consistency purposes, it makes the most sense to use IMS again. The price for Phase 2 reflects the same fee schedule as the consortium of North and Northwest Chicago area municipalities and is only $680 more than the cost for Phase 1.

RECOMMENDATION

It is recommended that the Village Board award a contract to Infrastructure Management Services of Rolling Meadows, Illinois for the 2015 Pavement Management Program in the amount of $23,080. Funding for these services are available in account 101-5001-524.20-05.