In addition to approving the City’s operating budget, the Bartlesville City Council also approves the capital projects budget for each upcoming fiscal year. These are projects funded through the City’s half-cent Capital Improvement Projects (CIP) sales tax and General Obligation Bond Issues, both of which are approved by Bartlesville voters.
On Monday, Director of Engineering Micah Siemers presented the council with staff’s proposed capital projects for funding in FY 2021-22, thanks to the most recent extension of the existing half-cent CIP sales tax and the 2020 G.O. Bond Issue, both of which were approved by voters in the election held Aug. 18, 2020.
Siemers told the council Monday that City accounting staff had identified in the FY 2021-22 Operating Budget for the CIP Sales Tax Fund a $2,889,887 budget for new projects. Carry-over projects totaling $3,727,378 include the committed capital funding for previous fiscal year projects that have not yet been encumbered.
Siemers said engineering staff then compiled a list of proposed FY 2021-22 half-cent CIP sales tax projects totaling $2,517,860 for council consideration, along with carry-over projects to be funded during the upcoming year.
Capital projects proposed for funding in FY 2021-22 include:
- Street repairs
- Replacement and emergency vehicles, body-worn cameras and dispatch chairs for the police department
- Emergency police communications infrastructure and radio system
- 95-foot tower ladder fire truck and equipment
- Arutunoff Softball Field and Lee Lake parking lot improvements
- City Hall boiler and chilling tower replacement, roof repairs
- GPS camera parking enforcement system
- Douglass Park parking lot repairs
- Sooner and Frontier pools epoxy repairs
- Tuxedo Bridge (Caney River) rehabilitation
For more information about capital projects, see www.cityofbartlesville.org. To see a complete list of the projects proposed for funding in FY 2021-22 or to view a PowerPoint of the presentation, see Capital projects proposed FY 2021-22