Capital planning & budgets
Walk into budget season with the data behind every dollar.
CYVL turns objective condition data into multi-year capital plans and budgets you can defend — so the ask to council or the mayor is backed by evidence, not anecdote.
The problem
Defending the budget shouldn't come down to who complains loudest.
Capital requests built on gut feel are easy to challenge and hard to defend. When the numbers behind the plan are soft, so is the funding.
Without a current, objective picture of condition, it's nearly impossible to show why a dollar spent now saves several later.
What you get
Understand what you have. Then act on it.
Understand — the data
- Objective condition across the entire network in one place
- Treatment needs and costs tied to real conditions
- Current data, so the plan reflects the network as it is today
Act — the decisions
- Multi-year capital plans and budget scenarios you can defend
- Council-ready charts and maps that make the ask easy to approve
- More road treated per dollar by acting before failure
Pavement Management Plans
A council-ready paving plan. Built in-house, not by a consultant.
Build, edit, and execute a multi-year paving plan inside CYVL — from live condition data to council pack to year-end variance. No consultant, no binder, no plan that's stale by October.
Most DPWs buy a pavement plan once every 5–10 years — tens of thousands of dollars, months of waiting, and a static report that's out of date the day it lands. Smaller cities skip it and pave worst-first, which costs the most over time and is the hardest ask to defend at budget.
- Guided setup — pick your horizon (1, 3, 5, or 10 years), annual budget, strategy (Preservation First, Worst First, or Hybrid), and a treatment library with your local pricing.
- Plan on a live map — paint projects, swap treatments, shift years, adjust budgets; the network outlook recalculates as you work.
- Every scenario saves — model options side by side, then promote the approved plan to Executing.
- Run the year against it — log status, actual cost, and mid-job treatment swaps, so planned-vs-actual is ready by next budget cycle, not reconstructed.
- Council pack + share — a 4-tab preview (Overview, Year-by-year, Project list, What changed), PDF/GeoJSON/CSV export, and a live map link scoped to public PCI, Year 1, or the full plan.
“If we have data to back up our decision, that's something residents can't argue against.”
Under the hoodDecisioning by PCI tier and FHWA road class (arterial / collector / local); AI rationale and validation nudges (e.g., flags full-depth reclamation at PCI 70).
Executive Snapshots
A council-ready report in minutes — not days of prep.
Turn your live CYVL data into a polished, presentation-ready infrastructure report in minutes — so your team walks into any budget meeting or council presentation without the scramble.
The people who decide budgets — mayors, council, residents — never log into your data tools. Today that means a data analyst spends days formatting a report, or a small DPW walks into a key meeting with no defensible data at all.
- Four-step wizard — scope, format, sections, detail. Then Ask CYVL generates the document.
- Export as PNG, PDF, or PPTX — ready for a budget meeting, a council deck, or a public newsletter. No manual formatting.
- Suggested in the flow — Ask CYVL spots a reporting moment mid-conversation and offers to build the report for you.
Proof
“I completely changed the way we run our paving meetings with the mayor — it's all up on the screen now.”
Up to 4X
More roadway treated for the same budget
Multi-yr
Capital plans built on real conditions
500+
Municipalities served
Trusted by 500+ municipalities.
Why CYVL
The most complete picture, at the lowest lift.
One pass captures everything
A single drive captures every asset in the right-of-way at once — pavement, sidewalks, signs, and more — so you're never paying for separate surveys.
Built for how government buys
Available on cooperative purchasing contracts, with data your team owns. Procurement is straightforward and the path to value is short.
Fastest to value
Most agencies go from first drive to decisions in weeks, not the months a manual survey takes — and the picture stays current after that.