It isn’t your imagination.

Manteca has a lot of potholes.

City crews used 32 tons of asphalt to fill potholes in 2024.

That tidbit of information was shared at Tuesday’s City Council meeting that was conducted, in part, to establish a spending plan for Measure Q sales tax receipts.

The 20-year, three-quarter of a cent sales tax goes into effect April 1.

Preliminary plans call for at least $2 million in Measure Q taxes to be spent on improving streets on an annual basis in addition to existing funding sources.

As it stands now, at least $1 of every $6 collected from the temporary sales tax will go to streets.

The city is looking at ways of doing more street repaving using city manpower.

Such a strategy may involve breaking larger projects down into segments such as is now being done with Spreckels Avenue.

One section was done two years ago, a second section last year, and the remaining section to Yosemite Avenue is expected to be done this year.

Doing the Spreckels work  in-house in stages represents a significant savings.

How the city proceeds — in-house, contracted out, of a combination thereof — depends on how it can leverage the money it will have available to get the most work done.

Other streets division statistics for last year notes the city:

*conducted 172 asphalt repair projects.

*repaired 100 street lights.

*collected 186 tons of leaves.

That is in addition to major city road projects on Lathrop Road, Louise Avenue, Yosemite Avenue in downtown, and neighborhood street work in the area bordered by Main Street, Yosemite Avenue, Spreckels Avenue, and Moffat Boulevard.

To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com