WW Project Pages.xlsx - City of Springfield

EXECUTIVE SUMMARYINTRODUCTIONThe City of Springfield’s Capital Improvement Program (CIP) is a five‐year Community Reinvestment Planthat describes the funding and construction of City public facilities. A fundamental purpose of the CIP isto facilitate the efficient use of limited capital resources. The underlying concept is to program, forfuture expenditure, all reasonably available sources of revenue. Since projected revenue is significantlyless than the needs identified in the City’s infrastructure facilities plans, the CIP is used as the vehicle tofacilitate reconciliation, in the near term, of the competing priorities for scarce capital resources.The CIP is updated annually and is an intermediate step in a process that originates with long termplanning activities that anticipate the need for public facilities at least 20 years into the future, and theultimate construction and operation of those facilities. The CIP identifies the facilities concepts that mayreasonably be expected to be required in the next five years, refines those concepts, and provides apriority list of projects. Priority projects are selected from the long list of needed capital improvementsidentified in the various master plans and refinement plans adopted by the City Council. Once includedin the CIP, the next step is the City’s annual Capital Budget which draws from the first year of the CIP,with such modifications as are necessary or prudent to respond to immediate concerns and the oftenfluid nature of funding opportunities. The 2012‐2016 CIP includes those projects that are currently inthe Capital Budget and in various stages of planning, design, and construction. In addition, the CIPincludes descriptions of projects that have been identified through various facilities planning efforts butdo not currently have complete funding identified. These projects are aimed at improvingneighborhoods, providing for economic growth, improving traffic safety, mobility and access, complyingwith environmental standards, and maintaining the existing city infrastructure. The CIP is the source ofprojects that form the Capital Budget for each ensuing fiscal year.CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT AND REVIEWThe public input process for the CIP begins in October when citizens, organizations, and City staff areasked to suggest projects for consideration in the CIP. The Planning Commission and the City Councilthen review the draft CIP and a public hearing is held prior to Council adoption.OCTOBER: CIP PROJECT REVIEW PROCESS STARTSOCTOBER: CAPITAL PROJECT REQUESTS GO TO PUBLIC AND CITY DEPARTMENTSNOVEMBER/DECEMBER: PUBLISH DRAFT CIPNOVEMBER/DECEMBER: BEGIN INTERNAL DRAFT CIP REVIEWJANUARY: PLANNING COMMISSION REVIEWS DRAFT CIPFEBRUARY: CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION REVIEWS DRAFT CIPMARCH: PUBLIC HEARING AT CITY COUNCIL ON DRAFT CIPAPRIL: CAPITAL BUDGET PRESENTED TO BUDGET COMMITTEE2012-2016 Capital Improvement Program Page 1