Keep Greeley Moving

Improving Greeley’s infrastructure,
one block at a time

Keep Greeley Moving

Improving Greeley’s infrastructure,
one block at a time

Keep Greeley Moving

Improving Greeley’s infrastructure,
one block at a time

Keep Greeley Moving

Improving Greeley’s infrastructure,
one block at a time

Keep Greeley Moving

Improving Greeley’s infrastructure,
one block at a time

Keep Greeley Moving

Improving Greeley’s infrastructure,
one block at a time

Keep Greeley Moving

Improving Greeley’s infrastructure,
one block at a time

2020 Keep Greeley Moving Report

A year in review of our 2020 accomplishments and plans for 2021.

Maintenance Maps

Planned work in Greeley for 2021.

 

Damaged Curbs, Gutters & Concrete Sidewalks

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CAPA “Best in Colorado” subdivision paving award

Greeley won the “Best in Colorado” subdivision paving award three times for Keep Greeley Moving — the 2018 work in the Rolling Hills neighborhood and the 2019 and 2020 work in the Sunrise neighborhood.

The KGM program also won “Overall Best Overlay Program” in the state of Colorado in 2020. Out of 57 entries, Greeley won with top Marks. The City of staff has now won 15 Best Paving in Colorado throughout the years.

These awards for paving excellence come from the Colorado Asphalt Paving Association (CAPA).

Scored by a jury of asphalt industry peers, the paving in those neighborhoods scored higher than any other Colorado residential subdivision paving in that year’s competition.

Judges base a lot of the score on the quality and appearance of the pavement. However, material testing and construction organization and timing play an important role in the award too. 

At the national level, work done as a part of the Keep Greeley Moving program managed to win the National Asphalt Paving Association’s Excellence in Asphalt Paving award for the last 14 years.

Desire to Improve Streets

Keep Greeley Moving (KGM) had a good year in 2020. This fifth year of the road improvement program culminated in an important landmark, by the end of 2020 more than 60 percent of Greeley’s roads ranked at “excellent” quality — the program also won its second statewide paving award, but more about that later.

Getting Greeley’s road network to that level took a lot of work and a lot of funding. Without the approval and continued support of the Greeley voters, none of this would have been possible. This is something to celebrate, but only for a moment.

As soon as a road is finished, repaved, sealed, repaired, or treated it starts degrading. That’s just how roads work. The biggest factors in a road’s degrading condition are moisture, sun, and dramatic freeze-thaw changes in temperature — and it turns out Greeley has all three of those in abundance.

Greeley builds good and high-quality roads — that’s a huge reason our roads win awards. But, we need to keep working to repair our worse roads and vigilantly treat and maintain our good and excellent roads to ensure the city’s road network, as a whole, stays healthy.

I want to stop and take a moment to celebrate this initial achievement of the KGM program, but then I want to keep working to improve, replace, repave, and expand the roads throughout Greeley. Because if we stop working as hard and fast as we have been, every road in Greeley will worsen and undo all the efforts so far.

Let me talk a bit about the work we’ve done. In 2015, voters approved a seven-year 0.65 percent sales tax. The KGM program includes road expansion projects, repairs, and improvement for neighborhood roads, arterial and collector streets. It also includes concrete and sidewalk infrastructure.

The KGM program won three awards for the work done in two neighborhoods it promised to improve — Rolling Hills and Sunrise. The KGM program also won “Overall Best Overlay Program” in the state of Colorado in 2020.  Our system of local and residential roads makes up two-thirds of our overall road network and it is critical the city improves these roads in front of Greeley homes. In the last few years, our bidding process resulted in a great price for the overlay project contract. That excellent price meant the last few years’ pavement maintenance programs managed to improve even more miles of Greeley road than we originally planned.

Additionally, our concrete maintenance program finished an inventory of the city’s concrete network. Those crews have made quite a dent in the massive backlog of concrete repairs Greeley inherited when it took responsibility for all concrete sidewalks as a part of KGM. In the last year alone, the program replaced 27,745 linear feet of sidewalk.

Looking forward, the KGM program made commitments to four major areas: neighborhood roads, road widening, collector and arterial road overlay, and concrete maintenance.

The tax, and the KGM program, ends (sunsets) Dec. 31, 2022, and there is a never-ending supply of streets needing repair and as soon as they are paved, they begin to deteriorate. We may not have your street on the list just yet, but with the continued support of voters, your road will likely see some improvements soon.

 

— Joel Hemesath, Public Works Deputy Director

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Background

November of 2015 was a turning point for Greeley’s streets when residents approved the Keep Greeley Moving 0.65 percent sales tax for street improvements, road capacity projects and concrete repair.

The Greeley City Council and City staff would again like to express their most sincere gratitude for voters’ positive support. The measure passed with a 57-43 percentage point margin, and we’ve already begun to fulfill the commitments we made to residents. The tax has a seven year life which started January 1, 2016 and voters will undoubtedly have an opportunity to re-authorize the tax before it “sunsets” in December of 2022.

Since voters approved the Keep Greeley Moving tax in 2015, Greeley’s economy outperformed expectations and revenue was be higher than the estimated $9.4 million. Due to TABOR regulations, City officials had to ask voters if the City could retain the additional revenue to complete our commitments and potentially fund additional road and concrete projects.

Residents said yes with a 77-to-23 percent approval vote. Now the KGM program can accomplish even more.

 

 

The City of Greeley is responsible for maintaining 381 miles of city streets every year.

These streets are rated on a 0-100 Pavement Quality Index (PQI) scale, a nationally recognized pavement rating system. City officials’ goal is to have 90 percent of all Greeley’s streets with a PQI of at least 65.

Currently 236 miles or 62 percent of our streets have met our goal with a PQI above 65.

In the early 2000s, the city’s average PQI dropped below that goal. A lot of that has to do with road funding and minimal spending on the local road network. Around that time, Greeley staff managed to significantly improve the condition of the city’s collector and arterial roads, but local roads make up two-thirds of the city’s road system. With the declining condition of Greeley’s local neighborhood roads, the city’s PQI dropped.

The Keep Greeley Moving campaign is committed to improving local roads. With the approval of the KGM 0.65 percent sales tax, city officials have funding through 2022 to improve local roads and improve the city’s overall PQI.

Poor – PQI 0 to 40

  • 38 miles of Greeley roads 10% 10%

Good – PQI 40 to 65

  • 107 miles of Greeley roads 28% 28%

Excellent – PQI 65 to 100

  • 236 miles of Greeley roads 62% 62%

Commitments