VENTURA COUNTY — Streets are a vital part of a city’s infrastructure, enabling commerce, emergency services, and recreation. They often make up the bulk of a city’s assets and are costly to maintain. Streets not kept in a best practice condition are costlier to maintain. Neglected streets also cause extra wear on the vehicles that use them.
The Ventura County Civil Grand Jury investigated the pavement conditions in the cities of Camarillo, Oxnard, Santa Paula, Simi Valley, and Ventura. Although these cities have established improvement goals, none has a specific target to achieve and maintain best practice pavement conditions.
The Civil Grand Jury recommends that each city set a goal to achieve best practice street conditions and create a plan to reach that goal.
To read the entire report, please go to https://www.ventura.org/grand-jury/fiscal-year-2024-2025/
The Ventura County Civil Grand Jury is a panel of 19 local citizens established to investigate public complaints about county, city or special districts management, practices and processes. More information a about the Civil Grand Jury can be found at: https://www.ventura.org/grand-jury/