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Draft infrastructure-improvement plan outlines 2025 priorities, flags rate impacts and stormwater study
Summary
City staff presented a draft Infrastructure Improvement Plan that lists utility and street projects for 2025, shows funded/unfunded categories, flags the Northwest Fifth/Blanche sinkhole repair as a priority and presents preliminary rate-impact planning; staff called the plan "aggressive" and asked for commissioner feedback.
Ryan, a staff member, presented the draft Infrastructure Improvement Plan (IIP), describing it as a "living document" to be revisited annually and asking the commission to review priorities for 2025. He said the plan’s map and schedule are preliminary and may shift: some projects are marked as funded, others as to be covered by water and sanitary rate increases, and several remain unfunded.
On funding and timing, Ryan said the map indicates funded projects (green), projects proposed to be covered by rate increases (yellow) and unfunded projects (orange). He told the commission the plan is "a pretty aggressive plan for 2025" and that several projects may move to 2026 or later depending on priorities and financing. For Egan Avenue (north of the highway), staff are still determining whether State Revolving Fund (SRF) or USDA Rural Development financing is the best option.
Ryan highlighted the need for a comprehensive storm-sewer study to address drainage gaps and identified the Northwest Fifth and Blanche Avenue intersection — the site of a sinkhole earlier this year — as a project the city wants to keep in the 2025 window. He also summarized ongoing riprap and sheet-piling work in multiple creek segments, noting a conditional letter of map revision from FEMA that shows post-project flows will remain consistent.
The presentation included a preliminary water-and-sewer rate-impact schedule and a debt-service assumption example (3.75% over a 30-year term) as a planning placeholder; Ryan emphasized these estimates are preliminary and "could all move around." Commissioners asked for more detailed rate-impact modeling, traffic studies for certain connector roads, and more precise project timing before final adoption.
The commission took the IIP as a draft for discussion; staff will refine financing scenarios, provide more granular cost estimates and return with a revised plan for future consideration.
