Around the table starting in the bottom left hand corner and moving clockwise around the table: Sue Kotchevar, CFO; Janet Jeremiah, Community Development Director; Deputy Police Chief Rob Reynolds; Paul Sticha, Facilities Manager; Fire Chief George Esbensen; and Parks & Natural Resources Manager Stu Fox.
This group of people got together on Thursday morning to take a second look at the City’s proposed 2006-2010 Capital Improvement Plan (CIP). The CIP is part of the City’s overall budget planning process. It is the document we use to plan improvements to the City’s buildings, facilities and major equipment. City staff examine the capital improvement needs of the City and then program projects and improvements to meet those needs during the five year period. During the 2006-2010 planning period, we are planning to spend just over $30,000,000 on capital improvements around the community.
Every other year, our CFO starts the CIP planning process by taking a look at the current CIP, asking for input from the City’s Department Directors and Division Managers, and then creating a new proposed CIP for the new five year planning period. Then she forwards the proposed CIP to our management staff for review and comment. They review it. Then we get them all together and review the proposal. We mark it up until it looks like this:
Then we run the numbers again. Sort of a rinse-wash-and-repeat cycle, until we get the numbers to fit within our forecasted CIP revenue budget for the planning period. I think we’re almost there.
The final stop for the CIP: The City Council. We are planning to present the staff recommendation for the 2006-2010 CIP to the Council at their next workshop on August 16, 2005.
