Port Orchard City Councilmembers heard a briefing March 18 from city operations staff on the rollout of Cartograph, the OpenGov asset-management platform the city purchased to track water, sewer and storm infrastructure.

The presentation by Caden Cucciardi, asset management technician, and Darren Pedraza, GIS asset management coordinator, summarized mapping progress, workflows for preventive maintenance, and how the system will connect citizen service requests to crew work. Cucciardi told the council the city is “about 98% complete” in mapping assets across the three utilities but does not yet have a complete, citywide condition assessment.

The presentation framed the program as a tool for risk management, extending asset life and lowering long-term costs. “The reason we’re doing this is we want to maintain all city assets at the lowest possible cost, maximizing the practical lifespan,” Cucciardi said. Staff showed screenshots of mapped vertical assets (pump and lift stations) and underground linear assets (mains and laterals), and explained Cartograph’s integration with the city GIS layer.

Staff outlined key features: work orders and tasks that group activities by priority, estimated and actual labor and equipment hours, a mobile app for field crews to “clock” in and record work, and a SeeClickFix integration that routes citizen requests into Cartograph for dispatching. Cucciardi said the city has received roughly 60–70 seeClickFix requests in the short period since the county-to-city workflow was changed; those requests are now funneled into Cartograph for tracking and resource planning.

Darren Pedraza described how crews will use task records and recurring schedules to bundle work and avoid multiple trips to the same site. Staff said they are using FEMA equipment rate tables and top-step maintenance wages to estimate in‑field costs, with the system currently capturing labor- and equipment-related costs but not major material purchases.

Staff also reviewed a deterioration curve to show how early, low-cost preservation (chip seals, microsurfacing) can delay much costlier reconstruction. Presenters said their own televising and inspections (TVing) and a ‘‘windshield’’ assessment are underway to identify high-priority failures; they cautioned that condition work is costly and may show substantial needs in the short term.

Councilmembers asked about data gaps and how the system will combine scheduled preventive maintenance with reactive work orders; staff explained Cartograph groups tasks into work orders so related tasks (for example CCTV, jetting and cleaning) can be completed together.

Council direction and next steps include continuing the gap analysis, expanding TV inspections, integrating streets/parks/facilities into the same platform after utilities are mature, and returning to council with progress updates and dashboards once more condition data are available.

Ending: Staff said they will return with status updates as inspections produce condition scores and recommended capital projects; no formal council action was taken at the March 18 meeting.