The Task Force set dates, and the first ones have passed. The Mayor's Vision 2050 Task Force reported to the Council on December 2. It called for an updated Program Plan by spring 2026, an asset management steering committee and the start of condition assessments by July 2026, and asset management for facilities, paving, sidewalks and sewers by July 2027. I can't find the updated plan or a record of the steering committee. On August 25, nine Task Force members asked the City Manager, in print, to set up a working group to carry out what the Council directed in 2020.
The Mayor has put a referral on the September 29 agenda that would produce the updated plan this page says is missing. It answers Ask 01, and it carries a version of the scorecard in Ask 02. It puts no year on any target, which is Ask 03, and it names no steering committee, which is Ask 04.
Co-sponsored by Councilmembers Taplin, Tregub and O’Keefe. It asks the City Manager to build an updated cross-departmental Program Plan and Strategic Asset Management Plan under Realize Vision 2050, covering the city’s long-term infrastructure needs and maintenance schedule, and to report progress to Council every six months. The estimated cost is $200,000 in staff and consultant time. That is Ask 01 on this page. It stops short of Ask 04: the referral names no asset management steering committee and publishes no assessment schedule.
It would track project schedules and budgets and carry future capital planning, modeled on the capital improvement program hub that UC Berkeley students built in the Transportation Planning Studio course. That is the shape of the scorecard in Ask 02, built as a website. Ask 02 asks for one page released with the budget, which is a different object and a cheaper one.
The referral also gives the unfunded need as about $1.5 billion. That is the fourth figure in six years, after $882 million in the 2020 Framework, $1.802 billion in the 2022 Program Plan and about $2 billion in the Task Force report last December. Each was counted for a different purpose. A plan that is going to be measured needs one number that is maintained and restated when it changes.
Dell hardware and software, up $2,900,000 to a total of $11,097,733; the South Cove West parking lot repaving, up $335,740 to $2,220,381; and the East Bay Regional Communications System Authority radio contract, up $2,600,000 to $6,819,482. Recess authority is lawful and the work is real. It is also capital spending that reaches the public record after the decision, which is the habit an asset management plan exists to replace.
The September 15 agenda was posted on September 3 and is final. The September 29 agenda was posted on September 17 and is final; the item numbers here follow it. Sources: the September 15 Council agenda, the September 29 Council agenda and the Agenda & Rules packet of September 14, which carried the September 29 draft.
The street score is the Pavement Condition Index, on a scale of 0 to 100, as a three-year average published by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. Berkeley's was 56 in 2022, 56 in 2023 and 56 in 2024, across 449.6 lane-miles. MTC calls that range "At Risk." The 2022 Program Plan defines "good" as 70 to 79 and sets the target above 70.
The need figures don't line up over time. The 2020 Framework counted $882 million in unfunded liabilities. The 2022 Program Plan counted $1.802 billion in needs. The Task Force's 2025 report says about $2 billion. Each was counted for a different purpose, so I don't read them as a trend.
The Program Plan the Council adopted on July 26, 2022 sets these outcomes. The quotes are its own words. It plans the work in "approximately three, 10-year phases" and puts no year on any target.
"The target is to improve Berkeley's streets to a PCI of more than 70." The score has not moved in MTC's last three published years.
The plan lists "97% of the City's street miles paved" as an outcome. I haven't found a current figure.
"The expected outcome is for the backlog of Berkeley's sidewalk repairs to be completed and to have adequate resources to address future repair needs."
"The expected outcome is for Berkeley's Bicycle and Pedestrian plans to be fully implemented."
The plan calls for "planting thousands more trees" for the urban forest, carbon, equity and relief from urban heat.
The outcome is a system that "addresses future climate impacts, reduces impervious surfaces, minimizes flooding, meets the City's stormwater discharge permit into San Francisco Bay."
Most of this is reporting. The City already has the plan, the targets, the asset software and the street data. What is missing is a schedule and a page the public can read.
The Task Force set spring 2026. If the update is done, publish it. If it isn't, publish the new date.
Each 2022 target, this year's figure and last year's. Start with the street score, which MTC already publishes.
A pavement score above 70 by what year, at what yearly paving budget. The same for the sidewalk backlog and for the bicycle and pedestrian plans.
The Task Force set both for July 2026. In August, nine of its members asked for a working group to carry the plan forward. A published roster and schedule would answer them.
The Framework called for doubling capital spending to about $80 million a year. Publish what the City has actually spent on capital projects each year since 2020.
Measure R passes with 85 percent. It asks the City to write a 30-year plan for its infrastructure.
The Vision 2050 Task Force publishes its Framework: five strategies, $882 million in unfunded liabilities, and a call to double capital spending to about $80 million a year. The Council adopts its principles, strategies and actions in September.
The Council adopts the Vision 2050 Program Plan: $1.802 billion in needs, three ten-year phases, and the six targets on this page.
Measure L, a $650 million bond for infrastructure and affordable housing, gets 59.4 percent. Bonds need two-thirds, and it fails.
Measure FF, a street and sidewalk parcel tax, passes. The Task Force puts it at about $15 million a year for 14 years.
The Mayor's Task Force reports to the Council: about $2 billion unfunded, five recommendations, and dated milestones.
Updated Infrastructure Program Plan. Not located.
The Council places a $300 million bond on the November ballot. It becomes Measure U.
Asset management steering committee established; condition assessments begin; master schedule for planning studies. No public record located.
Nine Task Force members publish an op-ed asking the City Manager to form a Vision 2050 Working Group.
Measure U on the ballot.
Asset management in place for facilities, street paving, sidewalks and sewers.
I found nothing on the City's site. It may exist in draft or have gone to a committee.
No public record located.
The City may track these internally. I haven't found them published.
I haven't pulled the budget series yet. It is the check on the Framework's $80 million line.
They come from three documents written for different purposes. Until the definitions sit side by side, I don't compare them.
Everything on this page is sourced to a public document or named account. If you think I've read one of them wrong, tell me and I'll correct the page.