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Public Works budget shows higher costs for garages, winter operations and capital requests
Summary
Public Works presented a recommended budget with increases in garage contractual services, winter operations and capital outlay; councilors questioned stormwater fee assumptions, parking revenue forecasts and the proposed use of bonds.
Public Works staff reviewed a department-level recommended budget that includes higher contractual costs for parking-garage systems, increased winter-operations spending and capital requests that were reduced from initial asks.
Kevin Gagne, Director (Public Works), and Facilities Manager Louis Turcotte described increases across the five city garages tied to a new gate system and a plan to move telephone service off landlines to the city's fiber. Oak Street parking, for example, showed an "overall increase of $8,955 or 12.4%," staff said, with much of…
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