OCR Text |
Show Parks, recreation highlight proposed 1985 Capital Improvements Budget by Christopher Smart City Manager Arlene Loble's $2 million proposed Capital Improvement Improve-ment Budget will be reviewed by the city council today, March 14, in an afternoon-long work session. According to Loble's preface to the draft budget, this year's Capital Improvements Budget is smaller than those of the past few years and is oriented toward improving parks, recreational facilities and "visual impacts." Since iasathe. Capital Improvements Improve-ments Budget,' which lists costs of city construction projects and purchase pur-chase of equipment, has been from impact fees, Loble's 1985 Capital Improvements Budget lists federal and state grants as contributing' contribut-ing' $328,000. The Park City Redevelopment Agency is contributing contribut-ing $110,000 to capital improvements. improve-ments. And about $490,000 will come out of the general fund for this year's projects and equipment purchases, according to the draft proposal. On the expenditures side of the budget, the largest single chunk, about $654,000, will go toward improving parks and recreation facilities. Of that sum Loble has proposed $230,000 be spend for a new road and parking lot for City Park. The proposed budget outlines $192,000 for a new recreation building at City Park and $68,000 has been set aside for lights and bleachers there. The proposed budget also lists expenditures of $157,881 for Prospector Pros-pector Park and $6,500 for Rotary Park. Another large segment of the budget outlines street improvements. ( in Park City which are listed at aboyt ' $377,000. The streets on the list for ' improvement are the Prospector bus route, Heber Avenue, upper Park Avenue, the widening of Utah Highway 224 at Holiday Ranch Loop Koad, and the widening of Marsac Avenue. Other notable expenditures in the Capital Improvements Budget are: $285,000 for bike paths, buffer strips and signs; $198,000 for the purchase of property to widen Swede Alley and the Ontario-Marsac intersection; $254,000 for flood control; and equipment purchases listed at $362,000. A public hearing on the proposed "Capital Improvements Budget has been scheduled for April 11 at 5 p.m. separated from the operating budget, bud-get, which runs from July 1 to June 30 annually, so that funding for construction projects is in place in time to take advantage of Park City's short summer season. Loble explained this year's budget is smaller than usual because a number of major on-going projects have been completed, including flood control improvements totaling $1 million, restoration of city-owned buildings and major street improvements. improve-ments. In her preface to the budget, Loble states in part: "This year's Capital Improvements Budget steers away from activity that will be disruptive to the community as a whole and directs most of the construction to the Park City area ..." The balance of the budget is aimed at buffer strips, bike paths, signs and lighting, she adds. For the first time, the 1985 Capital Improvements Budget identifies the use of impact fees for funding of projects that are of "general benefit" to the town but not specifically related to impacts created by new development, Loble states'. She adds that developers contribute about $1 million in impact fees annually and should be consulted in the process of determining how those funds should be spent. Beyond the revenues garnered |