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Board reviews capital budget, warns some funds could dry up if development slows
Summary
City staff presented a proposed capital budget focused on finishing existing projects tied to a 2019 property-tax pledge (the "1875" list). Staff warned road-impact and adequate-facilities fees that fund many projects depend on permit activity and could decline if development or a sewer moratorium reduces permitting.
Rebecca Holden, staff member, presented the city’s proposed capital budget at the Board of Mayor and Aldermen budget work session, emphasizing the package is meant to finish projects already started rather than add new projects.
The proposed capital projects fund referenced throughout the presentation is the so-called “1875” fund, a financing mechanism funded primarily by a 2019 property-tax increase. Mayor Fitter explained that the 2019 increase was memorialized in resolution 19-40 and dedicated “solely to the projects listed on 1875,” and thus that fund must be used for that defined set of projects until the related debt is retired.
Holden said the 3.11 (1875) capital projects fund is “primarily funded with 37% of property taxes” and that the budget includes the previously discussed property-tax increment. She told the board the majority of next year’s capital spending is to finish ongoing projects and that remaining appropriations for projects will be carried forward via…
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