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The City of Brooklyn Center has implemented a Capital Improvement Plan (CIP), which provides long-term planning and management of infrastructure and buildings throughout the City. The CIP is a planning document that presents a 15-year overview of scheduled capital projects to address the City’s goals for maintaining public infrastructure in four functional areas: street improvements, park improvements, public utilities, and capital building maintenance Improvements.
The CIP includes a long-term financing plan that allows the City to allocate funds for these projects based on assigned priorities. This also provides the City with an opportunity to evaluate project priorities annually and adjust the timing, scope, and cost of projects as new information becomes available.
What is Capital Improvement?
A capital improvement is defined as a major non-recurring expenditure related to the City’s physical facilities and grounds. The current CIP divides projects between major maintenance projects that are included in the City’s operating budgets and capital improvement projects financed through the City’s capital funds and proprietary funds. Typical expenditures include the cost to construct roads, utilities, parks, or municipal structures.
The CIP goals and policies are established by the City Council, including general development, redevelopment, and maintenance policies. A primary objective of the CIP is to identify projects that further these goals and policies in a manner consistent with funding opportunities and in coordination with other improvement projects.