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Planning Board finalizes capital budget recommendations and approves multiple transportation, parks and facility appropriations
Summary
The board adopted a draft capital budget transmittal for the mayor, recommending about $45 million in requests while noting a $40 million safe-debt limit set by the Board of Finance. The meeting also approved a wide slate of supplemental appropriations and grant matches for transportation, parks, facility repairs and playgrounds, and confirmed several insurance-deduction requests.
At its Feb. 11 meeting the Stamford Planning Board finalized a recommended capital program and approved a series of supplemental appropriations and grant-commitment items across transportation, parks and city facilities.
Budget approach and transmittal: Chair Jennifer Gazzano explained the board is working from a $40 million safe debt limit communicated by the Board of Finance but proposed a recommended package near $45 million to provide discretion for subsequent reviewers. The board prioritized items that are time-sensitive or cannot be phased (projects already out to bid or tied to matching grants) and asked staff to produce a transmittal letter listing categories and projects that must remain whole throughout the review process. The board voted to transmit the draft capital book and accompanying letter to the mayor for review and further…
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