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Public Works outlines $400M CIP priorities, emphasizes pump station maintenance and sidewalk inventory
Summary
Public Works Director Hamza Javid presented a department budget emphasizing flood-protection projects (Safer Bay, Reach 2), a 10‑year CIP of over $400M (funded and unfunded), an expanded maintenance program including a one‑time pump‑station pond dredging and a new citywide sidewalk assessment program.
Public Works Director Hamza Javid gave a detailed presentation of the department’s FY25–26 priorities, organization and capital program. Javid said the department oversees four divisions — administration, engineering, maintenance and environmental services — and that the city’s adopted 10‑year capital improvement plan contains more than $400 million in funded and unfunded projects. He highlighted flood-protection projects (Safer Bay, Reach 2) and active water‑infrastructure projects (12-inch water mains) under construction.
Javid emphasized the importance of maintenance as the city builds new infrastructure: "This pump station drains over 60% of the city's stormwater," he said of the O’Connor Pump Station and described a one‑time dredging project to remove long‑accumulated sediment as a necessary maintenance expense. He also outlined an increase of roughly $400,000 in maintenance “other expenditures” to fund a citywide tree assessment, drainage pond clearing and a sidewalk inventory and trip-hazard evaluation. The maintenance increases reflect additional contracts and staffing needs tied to an expanding CIP portfolio.
Council members and public works commissioners pressed staff for specifics on daylighting (red curb/striping) pilots, signal-synchronization projects on University Avenue and phased approaches to traffic calming. Javid said daylighting would be phased and implemented at high‑injury intersections identified in the local roadway safety plan, that the University Avenue Grand Corridor project will include signal synchronization work, and that no additional maintenance budget request was needed for phased daylighting at this time. He noted a $150,000 sewer capital placeholder for manhole replacement and that some sanitary-district capital work will be funded from EPASD funds.
Public commenters and commissioners urged more resources for street striping, lighting (notably University Village), sidewalk repair and tree canopy expansion. Staff said the pavement management plan will be updated and return to council next spring and that the pump‑station pond dredging is a one‑time capital maintenance project to restore original detention capacity.
