January 25, 2023 - City Council Meeting
Infrastructure Task Force Committee Member Appointments
Agenda Report Video
November 16, 2022 - City Council Meeting
Enactment of Committee
Agenda Report Video
The City Council directed staff to proceed with the formation of a one-year community task force to evaluate the City’s infrastructure (roads, bridges, facilities, etc.) backlog, prioritization, and anticipated financial needs and opportunities for funding for future infrastructure.
A City Council Subcommittee (Council Members Mosca and Lynes) was tasked with identifying the structure, mission and goals of the task force, as follows:
Draft Mission and Overreaching Goals for the ITF:
- Identify the City’s capital improvement backlog and future needs for the 2025 to 2035 timeframe.
- Define criteria and clarify processes for identifying and prioritizing future city CIP needs, projects, and funding opportunities.
- Ensure that the CIP program and prioritization is linked to the City’s policies and planning priorities.
- Ensure transparency in communications about infrastructure needs, challenges, and the work of the ITF.
- Make recommendations regarding funding the City’s infrastructure backlog at the conclusion task force work.
ITF Preliminary Draft Scope of Work:
- Identify the City’s infrastructure backlog, future needs, and what criteria should be used to prioritize the needs identified.
- Estimate total cost of the infrastructure backlog, including likely escalation in City project construction estimates and budges, as well as increases in the cost of labor, equipment, and materials due to continuing price changes over time.
- Estimate cost of a ten-year infrastructure future forecast (beyond the backlog) including likely escalation in City project construction estimates and budgets, as well as increases in the cost of labor, equipment, and materials due to continuing price changes over time.
- Make recommendations that address funding the infrastructure backlog and 10-year future forecast at the conclusion of the ITF meetings in early 2024 considering:
- • Public/private development partners
- • Public agency partners (State, Federal, Regional grant funding).
- • Potential financing measures.
- • Optimizing and leveraging existing city and partner investments for
- matching funds, and/or
- • Other funding mechanism (assessment district, etc.)
- Determine if the City's infrastructure needs can be prioritized, financed, and effectively implemented given current staff resources.
Topics Presented by Internal and Consulting Staff will Include:
- General Overview
- Meeting housekeeping (Brown Act, meeting schedule, etc.)
- Why there is an infrastructure backlog
- Role and responsibilities of ITF
- Infrastructure Needs Analysis
- Finance Framework - Expenditures
- Municipal finance and budget overview
- Long range financial forecast
- Finance Framework – Revenues
- Grants – Federal, State, Regional
- General Fund
- Enterprise Fund
- Infrastructure Framework - Categories
- Catch-up, keep-up, and other needed improvements
- Above Ground
- Below Ground
- City Facilities
- Enterprise Facilities
- Infrastructure Needs Assessment Results – Outside consulting firm
- Infrastructure - Prioritization
- Finance Framework – Options for Funding Gap
- ITF Findings and Recommendations
- ITF Presentation to City Council
