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Committee continues capital improvement planning; mayor urges census outreach and holds payment on parking garage until stormwater, cameras and crosswalks done
Summary
Rachel Nichols asked councilors to submit top-five priorities from the draft capital improvement plan ahead of a Jan. 28 committee review; Mayor Brown urged expanded local census outreach and said the city is withholding final parking-garage payment until stormwater, cameras and a crosswalk are completed.
City planning and outreach topped the Gallatin City Council Committee’s Jan. 14 work session after the committee completed its agenda of ordinances.
Rachel Nichols, presenting the draft capital improvement plan, asked council members to email their top five priorities from the department-submitted project lists within one week so staff can assemble a consolidated draft for the Jan. 28 meeting and aim for council approval in early February. Nichols said the general fund contains the largest number and dollar value of projects behind the new water plant; staff have begun grant searches and identified potential MPO and developer contributions and have been setting aside committed reserve funds for known items.
Nichols told the committee she would collect each member’s top-five priorities, refine funding-source options and return a consolidated draft at the Jan. 28 meeting. She said a bond issue would be a last resort if other…
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