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Staff outlines CIP adjustments and FY27 lease payments, including funding for 12 new police vehicles
Summary
City staff summarized changes to the capital improvement program and funding lines: reauthorizations adjusted to $9,868,163 for special projects and $5,211,256 for park projects, new funding requests of $3,365,310, and FY27 lease payments including $1,017,009.48 for LPD leased vehicles covering 12 additional vehicles planned for next month.
Director Sailor presented a set of technical revisions to the proposed fiscal 2026–27 capital improvement program at the May 14 work session. Staff moved a $7,690 reauthorization into the TV studio redesign project and removed LPD leased vehicles from the reauthorized list so the city can budget full-year lease payments going forward.
Sailor told the council the revised special project reauthorization total is $9,868,163, and that park-project reauthorizations were adjusted to $5,211,256 after removing a separate dam-ruins line. New funding requests, including the TV studio redesign and other items, total $3,365,310.
On police fleet funding, Sailor said the amount now included $1,017,009.48 for leased vehicles in new funding requests. He said that figure covers FY27 lease payments for current leases plus payments for a proposed 12 additional vehicles that will come before the council next month (8 patrol, 1 administrative, 3 K-9 patrol).
Sailor explained that lease payments are made from the city's speed-camera accounts even though the vehicles are budgeted in the CIP, and that vehicle purchases or additional lease arrangements will be brought back to council for approval. He also said project savings from Van Dusen Dam and Carriage Hill Lane (about $74,006.63) contributed to available funds for reauthorization.
Council members asked whether reducing the CIP transfer to fund other items would require canceling listed projects; staff said the $1,043,009 transfer had been allocated to specified projects (including the TV studio redesign, Lafayette Avenue property, South Shore Drive and Court, Chapel Cove Drive and Court, server replacement and meeting-room screen-sharing upgrades, and environmental projects) and that finding alternative funding would be necessary to change those commitments.
Separately, the council discussed a previously proposed $1,000,000 CIP allocation (referred to in the transcript as to "Lars"); staff and the clerk said the body had informally agreed to hold or remove that allocation in prior discussion, but any formal removal would be decided at the May 27 public hearing.
No formal votes on CIP items were taken at the work session; staff and the clerk reiterated that budget amendments must be adopted at a public hearing and that the council must meet the state timeline to set tax rates before June 20.
