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Dade City staff outline preliminary capital requests as budget season approaches
Summary
City staff presented a package of preliminary capital requests at a Dade City Commission budget workshop, covering wastewater repairs, generators, street and sidewalk work, police vehicles and equipment, IT and building improvements. Staff said final budget choices will await revenue projections expected before the next workshop.
At a Dade City Commission budget workshop, city staff presented preliminary capital requests across utilities, public works, police and information-technology functions and said final allocations will wait until revenue projections are available.
City staff told commissioners the presentation was intended to familiarize them with departmental priorities and was "most definitely not all encompassing or all inclusive," and that more detailed figures and a cohesive list of programs and personnel will follow once revenue forecasts are received.
The most detailed requests came from the utilities division. Staff identified a planned rehabilitation of Lift Station 1 as a multi-year project, describing it as split into two $400,000 installments; a main blower replacement at the wastewater treatment plant estimated at $180,000; an additional stationary bypass pump estimated at $70,000; a trailer-mounted generator and other portable generators for storm response; a gravity sewer-line inspection budgeted at $75,000; and relocating a generator at Lift Station 19, described as a roughly $60,000 expense…
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