City staff and councilors spent the work session probing several high-cost items in the five‑year Capital Improvement Plan, including a planned pre‑K center, facilities maintenance needs and an ADA transition strategy.

Staff said $40 million has been earmarked for a pre‑K center and that earlier assessments recommended building a single center rather than continuing a fully distributed model. "Whether it happens at Walker, which is where it's scheduled to be today, or it'll get moved to Oak Lawn," Speaker 3 said while explaining that the FEI site introduced Oak Lawn as a possible secondary location.

On facilities, staff noted a McGuffey roof replacement is currently a FY30 placeholder and that additional HVAC replacement funds were added, bringing the facilities total to about $4 million in fiscal 2027 and just over $26 million across five years. Speaker 1 said the McGuffey roof “does need to be replaced” and described the timing as tentative.

The session also addressed the city’s ADA transition plan. Staff characterized the long‑range need across the city as substantial — "I wanna say, a $150,000,000 across the entire city," Speaker 3 said — and proposed $2,000,000 per year as an initial funding target to begin implementation. Council members raised equity and trade‑off concerns about concentrating large sums in ADA work; Speaker 6 cautioned that a large ADA bucket could crowd out other equity spending.

Next steps recorded in the session included staff commitments to return with more specific project lists and cost estimates tied to the five‑year plan before the April budget adoption.

The work session did not include a formal vote on any of the items discussed.