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I I I I I I I I ! I I '1 I I I I I I CASE # PROPOSED 1996 - 2001 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS PROGRAM ~ By: Ryan R. Schroeder, City Administrator Background: Each year at ~is tirn~ Council considers approval of the Capital Improvements Program as part of the bridget process. Typically, the Parks portion of the plan receives a prior preliminary a~Iqxoval (this year August 22, 1995). This coincides with the Park and Recreation Cd, remission schedule and public hearing process and allows for preliminary planning activities to begin. This is an advantage because of the neighborhood participation which has bc~n introduced into the design process the past four years. Attached for ~our review am the spreadsheets for the proposed 1996-2001 program for parks, stmets~ utilities, public buildings and, inmxiuced this year, computers. Also attached am ~¢ cash flows for the Landfill Trust Fund, the Lawful Gambling Fund, the Tax Invremen~ Fund, and the Public Improven~nt Revolving Loan fund which supports the street maintenance program. As has been the case the last few years, all of the expenditures Ibrogrammed here are supported by the Cash Flows with the exception of projected Gen~ral Fund expenditures. In that case it is stated that the projected expenditure will not ocettt without specific Council budgetary authorization or levy referendum and, therefore, the likelihood of the project occurring is uncertain. In all other cases it can be stated that the project is already programmed by an authorization of dedicated fund cash flows and, thc a'efore, is virtually certain but for change in Council priority or catastrophic occurrence in ;tate or Municipal financing. As in the pa~t, this plan covers a six year period. Total projected expenditures are $13,359,418 Of which $106,000 is projected from the General Fund. In addition to that General Fund expenditure, however, will be levies to pay back interfund loans for the public works ~arage ($38,043/year), the police building ($61,112/year), and a projected fire depamnei building in 1998 of $300,000 ($49,180/year). Each of these debt repayments me projected to be possible through the general levy which is supported through mark¢ :value increases rather than tax rate increases. Both of the 1995 and 1996 (proposed) bu lgets already support the public works project through this mechanism and the proposed 996 budget also supports the police facility in this manner. No additional public buildin~ improvements are proposed in this plan other than these three. The year 1996iwill be a pivotal year for the water utility. In addition to $554,155 in water main extensions on City projects, a third well is proposed in 1996. This $400,000 project is the first of t~o wells within this plan. The second well is projected in 1998. The latter well is propos ,dd to be the start of our western well field; however, further study may f'md 1996 to be that year instead. These wells will be followed by the 1999 construction of tower numberltwo in the AEC energy park area at a cost of $1,750,000. In 1996, however, we ~ppear to be at a point where we can no longer delay the proposed well construction. [rhe Anoka water connects bought us some time and will still be used in 1996. Our pe~k usages last year, however, not only drained our tower but drained theirs as well. Therefore, we intend to propose initiation of this project at the earliest possible date. upon CoUncil approval, of this expenditure area. All of the program water ~mprovements ~ projected to be expensed by the water access fees received from building activity. Street improve,ments are often the most visible and 1996 will be. no exception. We expect to have two segments of Sunwood Drive under constmctiori" 'in 1996. These are the