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Council hears redline changes to Providence capital plan, staff outlines project reallocations
Summary
Council members discussed an amended ordinance approving the city's capital and field maintenance plans for fiscal years 2025'2029, and staff described reallocations including $200,000 to Advils Avenue, transfers from Camp Cronin to parks and public infrastructure, and other project timing updates.
Providence City Council members and city finance and public works staff on July 16 reviewed an amended ordinance to approve the city's capital and field maintenance plans for fiscal years 2025'2029 and discussed a set of redline reallocations and timing changes.
The amendment presented to the council included a substitute redline that moves $200,000 to work on Advils Avenue "coming from the previous allocation for Camp Cronin," Crystal Lindbergh, deputy finance director, told the council. Lindbergh said a remaining $100,000 from the Camp Cronin line was added to a public infrastructure planning line.
Why it matters: Councilors and staff said the redlines do not change the total amount of the city's capital program for the fiscal years in question but reallocate funds among projects. Several council members pressed staff for detail on funding timing and on which years work would be carried out; staff repeatedly cautioned that many out-year figures are estimates…
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