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Honorable Pete Hoffmann <br /> February 29, 2008 <br /> Of the total $134,976,000 proposed for the capital budget, approximately $99M of the <br /> proposed capital budget may require bond funding.' <br /> Project Selection Criteria <br /> In selecting the projects, funding requests from the agencies were initially screened to <br /> ensure that the agency had the capacity to implement the project during the fiscal year <br /> (i.e., whether to defer or phase the project), that current requests were reconciled with <br /> previous appropriations (i.e., unused amounts from previous appropriations were <br /> sufficient to carry the project through the coming fiscal year), that the projects were not <br /> more appropriately funded through the operational budget (e.g., minor repairs), and that <br /> <br /> the projects were as equitably distributed geographically as possible while meeting the <br /> selection criteria discussed below. <br /> <br /> The selected projects met at least one of the following criteria (see Table 2): <br /> 1) Legal mandate-approximately $39.3M relates to unfunded mandates such as <br /> ADA, EPA gang cesspool prohibitions, and hazardous materials; <br /> 2) Critical for public safety or health-approximately $21.9M relates to protection <br /> of public safety (e.g., emergency response, flood control, crime control, traffic <br /> safety) or public health (hazardous waste); <br /> 3) Corrects a major deficiency-approximately $38.7M relates to meeting basic <br /> level of service goals; <br /> <br /> 4) Environment-approximately $5.1 M relates to proactive programs that relate to <br /> community planning initiatives, water quality improvements, or healthy lifestyles; <br /> 5) Improves operational efficiency-approximately $16.7M enhances delivery of <br /> services or maintains existing assets. <br /> <br /> 6) Maintains/improves existing assets-approximately $12.4M upkeeps the <br /> quality standards of a facility <br /> <br /> Of the 68 Capital Budget projects (see Table 3), 17 are new facilities or miscellaneous <br /> improvements ($35.8M), 16 are replacement of existing facilities ($60.9M), 26 are <br /> improvements to existing facilities ($37.4M), and 9 are various combinations of new, <br /> <br /> existing, or replacements ($900,000). <br /> <br /> Table 4 reflects the Functional Classification of the Capital Budget. Approximately 33% <br /> or $44.4M of the budget is for sanitation, followed by transportation projects (23% or <br /> $30.5M), public health and safety projects (22% or $29.6M), replacement of <br /> 4 <br /> <br />