City planning office outlines $4 billion CIP requests, moves capital submissions into Questica dashboard

City planning staff told the council they collected capital-improvement plan submissions from 34 agencies and moved the process onto a single platform intended to improve transparency and public access.

Lara Bridal, assistant planning administrator at the City Planning Commission, said the city received 243 project submissions totaling about $4 billion across 2026–2030. “There were 34 agencies submitted a total of 243 projects, reaching $4,000,000,000 over the 5 year period between 2026 and 2030,” Bridal said. She added that roughly $2.2 billion of requests were identified as bond-funded projects in the submissions.

Bridal said the commission has published a public dashboard so residents can click into agency submissions and see categories and project descriptions. “Under Kyle’s direction, we moved the submission process under Questica,” Bridal said, referring to the administration’s project delivery staff. The dashboard shows project lists, funding categories and the commission’s partial or full funding recommendations for 115 distinct projects.

Staff said the commission’s priorities for recommended funding this year included state-of-good-repair work, a criminal-justice complex, and warehousing and storage projects. Bridal said the commission approved the plan at its Aug. 26 meeting and that the commission requested guidance from the administration to help departments decide how capital requests should be framed in future submissions.

Bridal also described improvements aimed at making submissions easier for departments and increasing public transparency by housing capital requests and the operating budget on the same platform.