The Capital Improvement Program (CIP) is the City’s budget for financing large capital projects.  This is an essential part of the City’s plan to extend services and facilities to the community. This 10-year funded program is closely aligned with the City’s General Plan, and incorporates the facility and infrastructure master plans prepared and maintained by various departments. Each year the Council updates the 10-year Capital Improvement Program, which lays out the capital budget for the following fiscal year and provides a schedule of planned improvements and associated financing sources over the next 10 years.

A great deal of effort goes into updating the capital plan in order to ensure not only that critical needs are being addressed, but also that the cost, scope, and timing of all projects are coordinated. Staff began planning for the FY 2018-2027 Capital Improvement Program in August, 2016. The process began with a department-level review of the projects in the current CIP, followed by the submission of new projects and/or updated project costs. Department staff identified needs, carefully estimated project costs and ongoing maintenance costs, and submitted projects for the consideration of the CIP Management Committee. This committee is comprised of the deputy city managers and department directors involved in the planning and delivery of capital projects. The CIP Management Committee met three times over a three-month period to develop the recommended CIP.

The final result is a $660,251,970 plan to support various projects through Fiscal Year 2027, including an FY 2018 capital budget of $212,187,537 (this amount includes $74,487,518 for projects carried over from FY 2017). The 10-year capital plan is fiscally balanced, meaning that the capital and operating costs of each project have an identified funding source based on reliable revenues. The CIP addresses projects that are needed—or will be needed—across a broad spectrum of areas, including drainage, economic development, operational facilities, parks, public safety, streets and traffic control, and water and wastewater systems.

Some of the notable projects planned for the next five years are highlighted below.

Drainage Projects

• Continuation of a Neighborhood Drainage Program to address smaller, more localized, drainage issues across the City.

• A project to mitigate the impact of storm water on Union Hills Drive, particularly at the intersection with 107th Avenue. Improvements will include channel improvements, box culverts, storm drains, laterals, and catch basins.

• Pinnacle Peak Rd & 67th Ave Channel to New River project provides for drainage study, design, land acquisition, and construction of local drainage facilities in the area bounded by 67th Av, New River, Pinnacle Peak Rd and Hatfield Rd, as well as regional drainage improvements.
  
  

Economic Development Projects

• The P83 Innovation Center Project Parking Structure project supports the city's need for class A office space to attract desired advanced industries to Peoria. P83 is a key investment zone for the city. The project involves a parking structure on the 17-acre city-owned property next to the Peoria Sports Complex.

Operational Facilities Projects

• Continuation of the successful Community Works Program, which provides funding for projects that have a local benefit or that may arise during the fiscal year but are not identified in the capital budget.

• Replacement and/or upgrades to critical information technology infrastructure.

• A new radio site in the Vistancia area is planned due to current radio system coverage that is less than sufficient in the northern area of the City.

Parks, Trails, and Open Space Projects

• A new community park in the northern portion of Peoria. The first year of this project is for design followed by construction and site improvements such as: lighted ball fields, playgrounds, picnic areas, open turf areas, Dog Park, restroom and concessions, future recreation center, maintenance facilities, and all associated amenities for parks.

• Improvements to Country Meadows Park entail the addition of one or more new park amenities that will be determined through a public input process. A design professional will be chosen to assist the City in facilitating public meeting(s) and preparing visuals of amenity alternatives.  The City will utilize its contracted Parks Job Order Contractor(s) to advise on project costs and for project construction in the subsequent year. Amenities at Country Meadows Park could include an airnasium, dog park, or skate plaza. Minor enhancements of existing playgrounds, fall surfacing, lighting repairs, and/or a restroom refresh would be undertaken concurrently.

• Construction of a southern access point to the New River Trail system at 99th Avenue and Olive Avenue with comfort facilities such as a shade ramadas, drinking fountain, and resting areas.  Since this is also near an equestrian area in the community, facilities will also include services that accommodate those wishing to access the trail on horseback.

Public Safety Projects

• Additional space for the Police Department’s north command on the campus of the Pinnacle Peak Public Safety Facility. Preliminary planning envisions a new facility to the east of the parking lot fronting Lake Pleasant Parkway as well as half-street improvements and a deceleration lane.

• Replace the radios used in the field by Public Safety personnel.

• Installation of an emergency-only traffic signal in front of the fire station on Jomax Road. Projected traffic volumes in the area show the need for such a signal by FY 2018. Once completed, all of Peoria’s fire stations will have emergency signals.

Streets & Traffic Control Projects

• Widening Happy Valley Parkway over the Agua Fria from Lake Pleasant Parkway to the west end of the bridge over the Agua Fria River. This will include the widening of the bridge, striping and signage, street lighting, ADA ramps, landscape and irrigation.

• Widening of the intersections along 75th Avenue at Peoria Avenue and Cactus Road. From a safety and congestion relief standpoint, these are the highest priority intersections in Peoria. The city received federal Highway Safety Improvement Program funding for the intersections at Cactus Road and Peoria Avenue.

• Widening of 67th Ave from Pinnacle Peak to Happy Valley. The improvements will include clearing and grubbing, saw cut along existing pavement, install new pavement, mill and overlay existing asphalt, storm drain laterals and catch basins, water line, curb, gutter, valley gutter and apron, sidewalk, and handicap ramps, landscape, street lights and future traffic signal improvements.

• Reconstruction of the west ½ street improvements on 103rd Avenue between Northern and Olive avenues. These improvements will provide additional traffic capacity and pedestrian facilities, improve drainage, repair failing roadway sections, and secure the old City of Glendale Landfill.

Wastewater Projects

• Development in the north and northwest portions of the city will require that additional treatment capacity be added at both the Beardsley and Jomax Wastewater Reclamation Facilities (WRFs).

• The City is maintaining and rehabilitating selected wastewater trunk sewer lines to ensure the collection system continues to function reliably.

• The City will expand its groundwater recharge well infrastructure near the Butler WRF to allow additional storage of treated effluent. Underground storage allows the City to increase future groundwater supplies that may be needed in times of shortage.
  
  

Water Projects

• The City plans to partner with the City of Glendale to expand Peoria’s treatment capacity at the Pyramid Peak Water Treatment Plant by an additional 13MGD. Additional treatment capacity at the plant and the additional facilities to support the delivery of additional capacity will provide service to planned growth areas in the northern areas of Peoria.

• The City will rehabilitate and upgrade well production sites to address reliability and water quality issues as these facilities age. This City will also upgrade sites with new technologies as appropriate, allowing the system to continue to operate reliably providing redundancy, and ensuring water quality.

• The City will complete the multi-year program to replace aging customer water meters that have reached the end of their useful lives.  As part of the transmission system’s maintenance, the City will replace and/or rehabilitate waterlines that have been identified as being at risk of failure. 

A:  Approve the resolution adopting the FY 2018-2027 Capital Improvement Program.

B:  Deny approval of the resolution adopting the FY 2018-2027 Capital Improvement Program and provide staff direction to change the proposed Capital Improvement Program.

Discussion and possible action to approve RES. 2017-36, adopting the Fiscal Year 2018-2027 Capital Improvement Program.

Adoption of the Capital Improvement Program establishes the city’s plan for infrastructure development over the next 10 years; it does not provide the legal appropriation needed to expend public funds on the projects included in the program. Adoption of the city’s final budget (scheduled for City Council action on May 16, 2017) appropriates the first year of the CIP, providing the budget authority required to expend money on projects scheduled for FY 2018.