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Richmond council adopts new capital-improvement prioritization system emphasizing equity and deferred maintenance
Summary
The Richmond City Council voted unanimously to adopt a revised scoring and weighting system to prioritize unfunded capital improvement projects. The system adds a deferred-maintenance category and ties equity measures to SB 535, GARE and the city's environmental-justice element.
The Richmond City Council on a unanimous vote adopted a citywide prioritization framework for capital improvement projects that allocates points across equity, required work, project readiness, deferred maintenance and several strategic goal areas.
The council adopted the scoring system after several hours of discussion about how to define equity, how to account for grant-funded commitments and how to ensure projects that have been repeatedly deferred get a path to funding.
Council members and staff said the goal is to make CIP decision-making more transparent and to enable staff to deliver ranked project lists by program. Council Member Maria Jimenez moved the adopted weighting; the motion passed on a roll call vote with all council members present voting yes.
Under the system the council adopted, equity and required work each receive 16 points; project readiness and deferred maintenance receive…
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