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New Central Services department outlines facilities overhaul, $500,000 contingency for urgent capital repairs
Summary
Annapolis’s newly formed Central Services department described its first-year priorities to the Finance Committee: a facility-condition assessment, $500,000 set aside for advancing capital repairs, plans to relocate central purchasing and to expand fleet electrification, and staffing gaps that limit work-order throughput.
The City of Annapolis Department of Central Services presented its inaugural FY26 priorities to the Finance Standing Committee on April 28, asking the council to treat the department as the city’s central manager for procurement, facilities, fleet and risk. The department requested $500,000 for capital-project advancement and $101,000 for a real-estate consultant to build a land-and-building inventory and a strategic plan for city property.
Director (name on file in department presentation) described a short-term plan to use the $500,000 fund for urgent capital projects that arise between budget cycles, giving examples such as an immediate need for HVAC replacement at the Department of Transportation building and a fire-alarm panel replacement. He said the $700,000 already budgeted for city facility improvements is already allocated to specific projects and the $500,000 contingency would allow the city to move quickly when unanticipated, time-sensitive failures occur.
Nut graf: Central Services presented a facility-condition assessment as the cornerstone of a multi-year deferred-maintenance…
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