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Cape Girardeau council adopts $221 million FY2025–2030 capital improvement program
Summary
The city council approved a six-year capital improvement program the evening of March 17, 2025, listing about $221 million in proposed projects, of which roughly $84 million is identified as funded and $136 million remains unfunded. Major unfunded items include water system projects, airport needs and apparatus replacement for public safety.
The Cape Girardeau City Council voted March 17 to adopt the city’s fiscal year 2025–2030 Capital Improvement Program (CIP), a planning document listing roughly $221,000,000 in projects over the next decade, city staff said.
Kate Mills, staff member, who presented the plan, told the council, “We do this every year. It's a capital improvement program that helps us look at the next fiscal year ... plus out into future years.” Mills said the first five years list projects the city expects to pursue and the second five years are projections and a “want list” that depend on future funding.
The agenda report presented to council breaks the $221 million total into about $84 million of projects with identified funding and about $136 million of projects without identified funding, Mills said. The water-treatment program was listed as a substantial group of projects: Mills reported a $106,000,000 total for water projects, with about $92,000,000 of that shown as unfunded. Airport needs such as a fuel farm and an air-traffic-control tower were placed in a contingent column because no funding source exists, Mills said. The CIP also lists apparatus replacements for the fire department, with a multi-million-dollar package for ladder trucks and engines noted in the plan.
Councilmembers pressed staff on how items are funded and how the CIP relates to prior voter measures. Mills said departments submit requests and the administration identifies funding where available; projects without funding remain contingent. She also pointed to a list of completed projects in recent years that the document includes as context for taxpayers.
When the council returned to the item later in the meeting the body moved and approved the resolution adopting the CIP (Bill 25-29) by voice vote.
The adopted CIP and supporting materials are part of the public record and were described during the meeting as available on the city’s website for public review.
