Sedgwick County presents tentative 2026–2030 capital plan, highlights Comcare campus and forensic lab needs

Sedgwick County staff on Wednesday presented a tentative 2026–2030 capital improvement program to the Board of County Commissioners that packages dozens of facility and drainage projects and proposes a funding plan that mixes cash and bond financing.

The proposal, delivered by Lindsay Poverizzo, was explicitly labeled tentative. “This is, we're going over 2026 through 2030, the tentative, I emphasize tentative, capital improvement program,” Poverizzo told commissioners, adding the document was for discussion and refinement rather than final approval.

The plan groups projects by urgency and finances: priority (category 1) projects that staff say should be addressed in the next year, category 2 projects planned for years two and three, later-year items and a watch list of projects that need more study. Poverizzo said the package presented to the commission improves the county’s financial forecast compared with earlier projections and that staff prefer cash funding when feasible but will use debt for long-lived assets.

Staff highlighted several large or emergent facility projects. A proposed Comcare campus would consolidate administrative and clinical services currently spread across multiple leased sites; staff said the county could use increased Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) reimbursement to repay debt rather than property tax revenue. “We would…