County faces roughly $930 million 2027 shortfall; IJCC request drives majority of gap

Jul 28, 2026

Staff told the CIC about approximately $73.1 million available for 2027 non-airport bond/cash funding and that departmental requests exceeded $1 billion, producing an estimated shortfall of about $930 million largely driven by a roughly $858 million IJCC request.

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Capital improvement staff reported a substantial preliminary financing gap for 2027 non-airport capital requests. "Based on the current bond and cash policies that we have in place, the county has available about $73,100,000 to fund the 2027 non airport request that we received this year," Vince Masterson told the committee. He said total departmental capital requests exceeded $1 billion and that the initial estimate shows an approximately $930,000,000 shortfall under the county's current bond-to-cash policies.

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