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Council hears plan to spend roughly $41 million on resurfacing; officials warn capacity limits
Summary
Council members and staff reviewed the fiscal 2026 resurfacing plan, which combines carryover balances, a $5 million reallocation from FY24 and $21.2 million in dedicated transportation funds. Staff said the city can begin many projects in FY26 but warned contractor and design capacity will limit how much is completed in a single year.
City staff told the Tampa City Council at a special budget workshop that roughly $41 million is currently identified as available for resurfacing projects in fiscal 2026, combining unspent prior-year budgets, a reallocation approved earlier from FY24 and the $21.2 million All for Transportation allocation. Council members pressed staff for a clearer, map-based schedule and for quarterly spending reports so the public can see what is paved and when.
Hager Kopetski, city council budget analyst, summarized the resurfacing picture and the new FY26 dollars: “We recently, as a council, reallocated from the fiscal 24 surplus funds $5,000,000 for paving, so that is reflected here.” She said that after spending to date the city had about $4.5 million in remaining historical balances and a new FY26 appropriation of roughly $10.5 million, which together with the reallocation and the $21.2 million All for Transportation pool produced the roughly $41 million figure staff presented.
Brandon Campbell, interim director of the Mobility Department, told council that spending the money will require accelerating design and securing contractor capacity. “It is a matter of expediting the projects that we have begun design in house, and of ensuring that we have contract capacity early on,” he said. Campbell described a mix of in‑house work and consultant design, and said some segments (for example Yukon Street) are being designed in house while others are assigned to consultants already under contract.
Council members repeatedly asked staff to publish maps and quarterly reports showing (1) which segments will be resurfaced with the All for Transportation money and (2) how much has been spent and encumbered each quarter. Several council members also urged prioritizing resurfacing of neighborhood and side streets and requested clarification of whether certain high‑traffic corridors (New Tampa Boulevard, MacDill Avenue, Cyprus) are included and under what schedule. Kopetski and Campbell said projects are in design for many of those segments and that some work is likely to be contractor‑built rather than in‑house.
Council members also debated execution strategy: some described faster cycles when a single contractor both mills and resurfaces a segment, while staff described situations where milling is done in larger blocks and repaving follows, which can create short delays if subsurface conditions are worse than expected. Council members asked staff to assess whether a single‑contractor approach could speed delivery without higher cost and to return with options.
The council asked staff to: provide a map showing which streets will be paved with All for Transportation funds, itemize the FY26 resurfacing budget and the carryover balances, show what can realistically be spent in FY26 versus what would roll forward, and provide quarterly public reporting on paving spend and progress by district.
Staff said they will solicit contract help and expect to accelerate project delivery but could not guarantee that every dollar will be spent by the end of FY26 because of design and contractor mobilization lead times. Campbell said some segments could start in spring 2026 once design is complete.
