City Council - 7/15/2025 - Agenda Item M2 - Response to Grand Jury

The City Council of Oxnard discussed their formal response to the 2024-2025 Ventura County Grand Jury report, which criticized the city's street maintenance practices and recommended setting a goal to achieve best practice pavement conditions within 10 years. The council acknowledged the importance of preventive maintenance over corrective maintenance but disagreed with the Grand Jury's reliance on a single Pavement Condition Index (PCI) metric as the sole standard. They highlighted their existing comprehensive pavement management program, which aims for a 75% preventive maintenance to 25% corrective maintenance ratio, and noted improvements in the city's PCI from 63 to 67 since 2018. The council also pointed out discrepancies in the Grand Jury's financial figures and emphasized their ongoing commitment to cost-effective street maintenance without any new fiscal impacts from the recommended actions.