Which is kind of what I thought.. and also what makes me wonder if they're waiting on funding for other, more large scale, improvements, and don't want to pave it twice within a short time frame.
If it was really based upon conditions, NY 286 would have been paved 5+, if not 10+, years ago. Yet they paved a tiny, 1/4 mile segment under NY 590 this summer, and left the rest of it (from there to NY 250) in its current state of disrepair. Interesting..