More than $10.3 million will be for general fund spending that covers daily operations, which is a slight decrease from the 2016 general fund spending.
In comparison, the 2016 final permanent appropriations budget was nearly $24.7 million, with just more than $10.7 million in general fund spending. In 2016, the city received 98.8 percent of the anticipated $24 million in revenues, and spent nearly 81 percent of the $27.6 million in expected expenditures.
Council also approved its five-year capital improvement plan that identifies projects it intends to fund this year.
The city plans a number of capital improvement projects and spending for 2017, including:
- the purchasing and equipping three new police cruisers
- replacing portable radios, mobile data terminals and desktop computers
- replacement of the HVAC system at the police station
- replacement of the concrete sidewalk/entrance at the police station
- spending about $400,000 for street resurfacing
- purchasing a new ambulance
- LED lighting replacement for fire engine bays
- remodelling of the fire station
- replacing the sound system in the courtroom
- purchasing a new computer server, software updates and scanner system replacement for the court
- emergency equipment replacement for the pool
- sound/lighting upgrade at community park
- replacing the outside perimeter fence at the pool
- phase 2 of the downtown signal replacements
- purchase of a new dump truck
- purchase of a refurbished backhoe
- Stadia Drive intersection improvements
- Hemlock Street and Riley Boulevard improvements
- $400,000 for a sidewalk program
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