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O'Fallon staff lay out $257 million bike-and-walk inventory, warn funding gap for new shared-use paths
Summary
Capital improvements manager Chris Clerks presented 25 bike/walk priority projects to the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board, reporting the city's path inventory is valued at about $150 million and that fully building proposed improvements would bring total path/sidewalk asset exposure to roughly $257 million; staff said available maintenance funding is far smaller and additional grants or county/federal funds will be required.
Chris Clerks, the city’s capital improvements manager, told the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board on Aug. 12 that the city has compiled 25 priority bike-and-walk projects and an inventory of existing paths and sidewalks that together represent a substantial maintenance and capital burden. “The subtotal of the asset value is about a $150,000,000,” Clerks said, and if the city built all identified improvements and kept existing assets, “we're looking at $257,000,000 of asset that we have to deal with.”
Clerks said the city currently budgets roughly $280,000 per year for path maintenance and has historically allocated about $200,000 from city budgets for paths; those sums cover regular upkeep but leave large capital projects unfunded. He described the main outside sources the city pursues —…
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