Memorandum
City of Lawrence
City Manager’s Office
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DATE: |
July 28, 2011 |
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TO: |
David L. Corliss, City Manager |
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FROM: |
Casey Toomay, Budget Manager |
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CC: |
Cynthia Wagner, Assistant City Manager Diane Stoddard, Assistant City Manager Jonathan Douglass, Assistant to the City Manager / City Clerk |
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RE: |
Street Maintenance in the 2012 Budget |
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Pursuant to your request, information regarding the 2012 budget for street maintenance is below.
Background
Since 2007, the City’s budget has included roughly $5 million for street maintenance efforts. When the infrastructure sales tax was adopted in 2008, the plan was that the new sales tax would supplement that funding, not replace it.
A spending plan for the infrastructure sales tax was developed and it included spending $500,000 each year on minor street maintenance projects. (The ten-year plan also included major street reconstruction and maintenance projects totaling over $30 million.)
2012 Budget
The City Manager’s Recommended Budget included a budget for street maintenance that maintained the $5 million for street maintenance and $500,000 from the infrastructure sales tax.
However, in order to minimize the mill levy increase needed for 2012, the budget for mill and overlay in the general fund was reduced by $300,000 and the budget for minor street maintenance from the infrastructure sales tax was increased by $300,000.
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Street Maintenance Funding (excludes personnel, equipment costs, etc.) |
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General Operating Fund |
2010 |
2011 |
2012 |
2012 Revised |
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Street maintenance programs (mill & overlay, chip & seal, curb repair) |
2,040,919 |
2,040,919 |
2,040,919 |
1,740,919 |
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Asphalt |
135,000 |
133,172 |
119,172 |
119,172 |
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Concrete |
60,500 |
58,673 |
50,673 |
50,673 |
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Contingency |
- |
- |
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Sub-total general operating fund |
2,236,419 |
2,232,764 |
2,210,764 |
1,910,764 |
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Gas Tax Fund |
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Street maintenance (mill & overlay, chip & seal, curb repair) |
715,000 |
715,000 |
725,205 |
725,205 |
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Sidewalk |
25,000 |
25,000 |
25,000 |
25,000 |
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Asphalt |
75,000 |
75,000 |
75,000 |
75,000 |
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Concrete |
65,000 |
65,000 |
65,000 |
65,000 |
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Sub-total gas tax fund |
880,000 |
880,000 |
890,205 |
890,205 |
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Storm Water Fund |
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Curb repair |
140,000 |
140,000 |
140,000 |
140,000 |
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Transfer to General Fund for curb/gutter |
400,000 |
400,000 |
400,000 |
400,000 |
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Sub-total storm water fund |
540,000 |
540,000 |
540,000 |
540,000 |
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Debt |
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KLINK*(City's share) |
350,000 |
1,000,000 |
1,000,000 |
1,000,000 |
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KLINK* (KDOT share) |
200,000 |
200,000 |
200,000 |
200,000 |
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Sub-total debt |
550,000 |
1,200,000 |
1,200,000 |
1,200,000 |
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Reserve Funds |
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Sales Tax Reserve - County-wide |
550,000 |
550,000 |
350,000 |
350,000 |
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Capital Improvement Reserve |
350,000 |
150,000 |
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Capital Improvement Reserve -Infrastructure Sales Tax |
500,000 |
500,000 |
500,000 |
800,000 |
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Sub-total reserve funds |
1,400,000 |
1,200,000 |
850,000 |
1,150,000 |
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TOTAL |
5,606,419 |
6,052,764 |
5,690,969 |
5,690,969 |
*The 2012 KLINK project is 6th Street, Iowa to the west
Conclusion
As shown on the table above, the source of funding changed, however, the total amount of funding for street maintenance budgeted for 2012 remains the same.
Additionally, the 2012 budget includes the 23rd Street Bridge Project and reconstruction of a portion of Wakarusa. Iowa Street reconstruction, planned to begin in 2012, was included in previous city commitments.