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Council reviews draft CIP: staff propose higher pavement-management spending, list major citywide projects
Summary
City staff proposed raising annual pavement-management spending to $14 million and outlined major 2026–2028 projects including Southeast Quincy Street reconstruction and Menninger/North Topeka Boulevard intersection improvements.
Josh MacInarney, the city’s Budget and Finance Division director, and Steve Gaughan, director of public works, led a review of the draft 2026–2035 Capital Improvement Plan and the proposed 2026–2028 capital budget during the April 8 meeting.
MacInarney said the citywide half-cent sales tax (a 10-year tax set to sunset Oct. 1, 2029) currently has a fund balance of about $17.5 million and generated roughly $19.9 million in 2024. As part of the draft CIP staff proposed increasing the annual pavement management program from roughly $11 million to $14 million to spend down the accumulated fund balance before the tax’s scheduled…
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