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Portsmouth council adopts six-year CIP after correcting out-year spreadsheet errors, moves $900,000 fireboat purchase to later year
Summary
The Portsmouth City Council on Dec. 8 adopted its Fiscal Years 2027–2032 Capital Improvement Plan as amended after public members flagged an $11.075 million reporting error in out-year totals; councilors added a $3 million parking-garage placeholder, combined a transit study into the garage project, and voted to move $900,000 for a replacement fireboat into a later fiscal year.
Portsmouth—9s City Council voted Dec. 8 to adopt a six-year Capital Improvement Plan after amending several line items highlighted during public comment and by staff.
At the public hearing, resident Pietra Huda asked the council to postpone a final vote, saying the November CIP packet misreported combined funding totals for fiscal years 2028 and 2029 by $11,075,000 and urging the council to wait for corrected figures before approving a long-range multiyear plan. City finance staff acknowledged the error in the formulas that roll up combined project totals on the summary page, apologized and said the underlying element sheets and the FY27 figures used for near-term planning were correct. "We clearly didn—9t carry the cell formulas correctly across the totals," a staff member told the council; staff said they would incorporate edits into the budget documents.
The council debated several substantive policy questions tied to the CIP. Parents, teachers and school-board representatives urged full funding…
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