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Directors ask for clearer CIP dashboard: percent complete, percent expended and archive of completed projects
Summary
At the quarterly Capital Improvement Program update directors requested a dashboard redesign to include percent expended and percent complete for each project, keep completed projects in the dashboard for historical reference and add project-level financial metrics.
Directors reviewed the authority's capital improvement program (CIP) dashboard during an informational update and asked staff to modify the report so it shows percent complete and percent expended for each project, and to keep completed projects in the dashboard to preserve the history of work and spending.
Director Cox, who chairs the Engineering & Operations Committee, said the current Gantt-style dashboard does not provide an at-a-glance view of burn rate (funds spent versus percent of project completed) and recommended the addition of percent-expended and percent-complete indicators. Cox said those metrics help the board explain past work to ratepayers when requesting future funding.
Staff took the recommendation and agreed to include those metrics in future quarterly reports. The committee also discussed retaining completed projects in the dashboard so the authority can show how ratepayer funds were used over time.
Cox noted a positive operational update in the CIP materials: the no-discharge flushing program is coming in at roughly $1,600 per mile for distribution system flushing (labor and materials), about half the $3,210 per-mile figure projected in 2021, and staff expects to complete the work in five years.
This item was informational; no formal board action was required.
