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Watershed Protection outlines $122.4 million FY25 budget, flags funding gap and CIP priorities
Summary
The Watershed Protection Department on March 19 presented its fiscal year 2025 budget and a capital-improvement overview to the Environmental Commission, reporting a $122.4 million budget, a 9.9% drainage-fee increase and a broad CIP of more than 100 active projects.
The Watershed Protection Department on March 19 presented its fiscal year 2025 budget and a high-level capital improvement program overview to the Environmental Commission, describing a large portfolio of ongoing flood, erosion and water-quality projects and a structural funding gap that staff said will make outside capital — including bonds — important to future delivery.
Assistant Director Anupa Garpare told commissioners the department's FY25 budget totals $122.4 million, with drainage utility charges providing roughly $113 million of the revenue. Personnel costs are the largest single use at about $51.2 million; the department reported 442.5 full-time-equivalent positions for the fiscal year.
Garpare said the annual transfer from operations to the capital-improvement program (CIP) for FY25 is $26.5 million but that five-year planning guidance assumes that transfer will drop to $20 million per year in future years. She and managing engineer Pam Kerfitt said the…
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