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Venice staff present conservative five‑year CIP, urge council feedback
Summary
City Manager James Clint and Finance Director Linda Seni presented a pared‑down five‑year capital improvement plan, highlighting a notably smaller FY27 CIP and urging council input on new and moved projects before the budget adoption in September.
City Manager James Clint told the council the annual CIP workshop represents roughly “halfway through our budget process for FY27” and described the draft five‑year capital improvement plan as intentionally conservative. Finance Director Linda Seni said the fiscal‑year‑27 column in the document is what will roll into the proposed FY27 budget and explained a color‑coding system staff used to mark new projects, cost increases and items pushed back in schedule.
Clint said the proposal for the CIP totals just over $34,000,000 in the central column and reflects reductions from prior years — “it is 30% decreased from this past fiscal year,” he said — and staff moved many general‑fund projects to other funding sources where possible. Seni said departments provided the initial project lists, finance assembled the package and council input at the workshop is the intended mechanism to refine priorities before formal adoption next September.
Council members asked staff to flag which projects are grant‑funded and whether any late awards have changed planning assumptions. Several council members suggested adding clearer grant‑dependency labels to CIP entries so residents can see which projects will only move forward if outside funding arrives. Seni said staff will mark grant‑dependent items in the proposed budget materials and bring a revised package back at the next budget workshop.
