The city has been spending far less than it should on its billions in real-estate holdings — and what it has been spending it’s spent the wrong way, the city auditor says.
Lifeguards keep an eye on the swimmers at Mission Beach while San Diego police officers enforce the laws at the beach on July 4, 2020 in San Diego. San Diego’s nearly $5 billion infrastructure funding deficit would be about $1 billion larger if the city included hundreds of maintenance projects that officials postpone and ignore, a city audit says.
It can also deprive city leaders of an accurate picture of how far behind they are on infrastructure projects. The audit says deferred maintenance should be included in future evaluations of the city’s infrastructure deficit.The audit says the roughly $25 million San Diego spends annually on facility maintenance is only somewhere between 8% and 18% of what the city should be spending.
By contrast, San Diego spends 87% of its facilities maintenance money on repairs and only 13% on preventative maintenance. The audit also recommends the city use that plan to create a long-term funding strategy to address both annual maintenance needs and deferred maintenance. “The National Research Council says underfunding of maintenance and repair is such a prevalent practice in the public sector that it has become a de facto policy that compounds the problem each year as the backlog of maintenance needs grows,” the audit says.
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