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Council reviews 10-year CIP and hears IT budget pressures after VMware acquisition
Summary
Consultants presented a 10-year CIP and GIS portal outlining prioritized corridors for road, water and sewer replacement; public‑works staff and council discussed a roughly $108M backlog in aging infrastructure and recommended phased work. Separately, IT staff warned of sharp virtualization licensing increases after Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware and proposed a hybrid migration/reserve strategy to avoid repeated large capital requests.
Consultants and city staff presented a 10‑year capital improvement program (CIP) and a GIS portal to help Crookston prioritize infrastructure work on streets, water mains, sanitary sewer and stormwater systems. The consultants reported that about 21% of drinking-water mains and roughly 41% of the sanitary collection system are past their useful life, with illustrative replacement estimates (water ~$19 million; sanitary ~$42 million). They recommended corridor-based prioritization and preliminary engineering reports to determine final scopes…
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