Question 5 - Capital Planning

Summary

The City engages in regular capital planning to determine how to invest in its infrastructure. As part of that assessment, information about the City’s infrastructure is collected and shared through several documents, including the annual Citywide Statement of Needs, the annual inventory of city facilities, and the bi-annual TenYear Capital Strategy. All three documents provide information about the City’s existing infrastructure and planned investments. However, the Charter does not explicitly require the City, when developing the Statement of Needs, to look at maintenance and repair. Nor does it require the City, its Ten-Year Capital Strategy, to consider its official facility inventory or Statement of Needs. The proposed amendments would require that the City, when assessing significant City facility expansions and reductions in its annual Statement of Needs, also collect information related to maintenance needs, like the condition, function, and estimated useful life of all City facilities, to the extent practicable. The amendments would also require that the Department of City Planning and the Office of Management and Budget, when developing the Ten-Year Capital Strategy, consider City facility conditions and maintenance needs, together with other factors such as geographic distribution, impact on resiliency, and the importance of facilities for agency operations. The amendments would change the date that the Ten-Year Capital Strategy is due from November 1st to align with the date for the City’s preliminary budget, which is currently January 16th. The amendments would similarly change the date for the public hearing associated with the Ten-Year Capital Strategy to accommodate the later date for the initial submission.

Voting “Yes” would require more detail when assessing maintenance needs of City facilities , mandate that facility needs inform capital planning, and update capital planning deadlines.

Voting “No” leaves laws unchanged.

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