CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — It seems each year the city is pouring in more money into residential streets through the Rapid Pavement Program.
Assistant City Manager Neiman Young said that right now the city has paved 47 miles, which he says has already been a big jump over the 2023 numbers.
"To date we have completed 47 miles of new reconstruction in the city which is amazing," Young said. "We probably weren’t even halfway there at the same time last year. Very proud of all the work that’s being performed.”
The city admits that there’s many street residential projects going on right now however, when you look online at the city’s budget and performance record it shows that they have only spent about six percent of the money they’re supposed to spend so far. It also shows that only 29 percent of designated funds were spent for the entire year in 2023.
The city attributes the low numbers to slow financial numbers coming in from the projects.
”The numbers lag, they don’t reflect the reality on the ground,” Young said.
City Engineer Jeff Edmonds told 3NEWS that right now the city has eight contracts that are working on our residential streets. The total cost is right around $50 million.
"Five were awarded at $6 million so that’s $30 million probably around $45 to 50 million in contracts.” Edmonds said.
If you'd like to look at those numbers yourself you can go to this link. It will show you those figures plus other numbers for bond projects and many other categories involving city expenses.
