2027 Capital Improvement Budget

At a glance

Based on uploaded (human-made) captions; staff names are garbled, so staff are identified by role.

What: the 2027 capital improvement budget, presented by a budget analyst working with the capital improvement committee.
Where it stands: presented 2026-10-14; no vote.
Next: a status document on past annual programs; the department process next year sets 2028-29 funding (about $6.3 million a year available).

Capital improvement bonds are about 7.5% of the proposed capital budget but the most flexible source.
The committee moved $12.5 million from Hayden Heights to Riverview libraries after outside funding covered Hayden Heights.
Annual programs are being combined into lump sums so money is not left idle.
Community proposals: $500,000 a year, applicants from every ward, simplified process, many ineligible under bond rules.
Council President Noecker praised use of audit committee recommendations and asked whether the community proposal process is worth its workload; councilmembers asked for budget-to-actual reporting.
2026-10-21 clip: West 7th Street is the biggest change from the prior plan, with inadequate funding for the corridor; stolen copper wire is not an eligible capitalized expense. See also State Infrastructure Funding Advocacy.

About 19 minutes across 2 meetings (from transcript timestamps; approximate).

Meeting	Minutes
2026-10-21 - Budget Committee	2
2026-10-14 - Budget Committee	17

2026-10-21 - Budget Committee - In a short clip, staff said stolen copper wire is not an eligible capital expense, West 7th Street is the biggest plan change (about 100 million dollars, not fully funded), and a follow-up on changes was requested.
2026-10-14 - Budget Committee - Analyst's abbreviated review of the process, library fund shift and community proposals; Noecker and others asked about lump sums and reporting.