Capital Improvements Program

Final Adopted CIP

The Capital Improvements Program (CIP) is a business document that identifies programs and schedules over a five-year time horizon, and presents a financing strategy for capital improvements. The CIP utilizes different infrastructure master plans (i.e., parks, shops facilities, and water) to develop an inclusive list of potential capital projects so that funding for these projects may be considered comprehensively. This "level playing field" approach to project prioritization and capital financing allows the City to better assess and plan for its capital needs. Complex projects that overlap project groups/categories, such as transportation and utilities, may be constructed in unison resulting in project efficiencies that help to hold down costs.

Publication of the CIP has a positive effect on the City’s standing with financial rating services. Rating agencies recognize there is a "cause and effect" relationship between a City’s willingness and commitment to invest in public capital stock and the resulting economic well-being of the community as a whole. The CIP is also a vehicle for developing capital financing strategies. Assuming new debt to finance projects demonstrates the community’s capacity to pay for the debt through the use of a debt policy.

The first year of the final adopted five-year CIP is utilized as the basis for the annual budget for capital projects in the applicable programs which are to be presented to the budget committee. The annual budget process may result in further refinement to projects, project costs, and/or project financing alternatives prior to the final adoption of the annual fiscal year budget in June.

The CIP is a long-term document. The City’s annual budget sets the appropriation authority levels for the subsequent year. The annual budget is a shorter-term document with respect to capital projects and only incorporates the most immediate year of the CIP. Once the annual CIP update has been reviewed by the public through a public hearing process, the City Council adopts the CIP and the next year’s projects are placed in the budget.

The projects contained in the CIP document are "funded" projects for the given five-year period. Projects, which do not appear in the CIP, are those projects that have been identified as desired improvements for the City, but either cannot be pursued due to a lack of funding at this time or fall beyond the five-year time horizon. You can review those "unfunded" projects by specifying as "unfunded" in Project Search options or clicking the unfunded project list link below.

View CIP Documents

• 2007/08-2011/12 Adopted CIP
• 2007/08-2011/12 Adopted Unfunded Project List
• 2008/09-2012/13 Preliminary CIP
• 2008/09-2012/13 Preliminary Unfunded Project List
• CIP New Project Proposal
• 2008/09 CIP Calendar