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ICIP/Capital Projects Planning Discussion
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The purpose of this item is to provide additional detail regarding the County's Infrastructure and Capital Improvement Program (ICIP) and to provide an overview of the County's general Capital Improvements Project (CIP) planning process.
ICIP
On September 7, 2021, Council approved the submission to the State of the ICIP (see Attachment E). After that discussion, some Councilors asked for additional information about the ICIP.
As noted in the previous ICIP agenda material, the County is required to prepare and submit an Infrastructure Capital Improvement Plan (ICIP) to the State if the County expects to have any State funding considered for any particular project. Therefore, the ICIP is inherently a State funding compliance document and substantively different than the County's Capital Improvement Projects (CIP) program. The ICIP includes a much wider variety of projects. It includes all funds, including all enterprise funds, not just governmental funds. It also includes many initial project concepts that might only possibly be pursued. It's primary focus is just potential State funding for only the following year.
Detail for each project is included in the full ICIP detail report included as Attachment F.
CIP
One significant portion of the County's budget development cycle is the preparation of the CIP program. The purpose of this overview is provide Council and the public an opportunity to become more familiar with the major components involved in this process. At this point in time, these items are for illustrative purposes only. Staff expects that there will be multiple iterations of this conversation over the next few months leading up to the final proposed budget, and then formal consideration during the budget hearings.
The General Fund provides the majority of funding for the County's general debt service and the CIP program. The current version included here as Attachment A is from ...
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