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Council reviews 2025 capital projects, grants and public-safety equipment awards
Summary
City staff presented a 2025 year-in-review highlighting street and park projects, landfill and airport contracts (multi-million-dollar projects), awarded grants for fire equipment and 9-1-1 upgrades, and reported code-case reductions in the city’s database.
City staff presented a year-end review of 2025 projects and recent grant activity, summarizing progress on multiple capital improvements and public-safety investments.
Staff reviewed street and neighborhood work (Lincoln Street improvements, 25th–27th; the Corral Crossing and Heritage Heights projects) and said contractors delivered lower-than-estimated bids on several projects. The MSW landfill relocation and related work remain active; staff cited a contract value of about $6,220,000 for the landfill portion and about $4,050,000 for the entrance/related contract. Airport Taxiway C work was described as nearly complete with a project cost cited at $5,660,000 and the city's share about 10 percent.
Parks investments noted include a playground purchase (cited roughly a quarter-million dollars) and additional pickleball facility seating and shade structures funded largely by private contributions (the Pickleball Association funded more than 40 percent of a ~$125,000 seating/shade package). Staff also noted upcoming presentations on an aquatic-park study and remaining installation needs for Heritage Heights.
On grants and equipment, staff said a RAISE grant application is in the U.S. Department of Transportation secretary’s office for review (since Dec. 22), and that Senator Fisher assisted in securing $782,000 for new 9-1-1 equipment; an Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) provided $128,000 for new hoses and nozzles. City staff described training on the new equipment and plans for distribution.
Staff also reported code-case data cleanup: after software reconciliations, 1,001 cases were closed and 72 remained open, with many of the remaining cases opened in December and statute-driven notice periods keeping some cases active.
Ending: Staff said many projects are moving forward, committees have aided progress, and remaining administrative steps and weather-dependent work will determine precise timing for some installations and completions.
