Planning commission approves capital budget

Nevada Daily Mail

The Nevada Planning Commission voted unanimously during Tuesday's meeting to send a positive recommendation to the Nevada City Council to accept the city's 2014 five-year capital improvement plan. The five-year plan gives a broad outline of the projects the city plans to tackle over the next five-years. Some are already in progress, others are in the planning stage and others are still in the idea phase.

The capital improvement plan now goes to the city council for final approval.

"There are 30 items on this plan. Some are from last year's plan," Randy Marti, the city's project manager for many of the projects, told the planning commission.

Marti told the commission the new public safety buildings are a $4.1 million project, but he expects the city will spend most of the $4.1 million this year and only need to spend around $600,000 in 2015 to complete the projects.

The Spring Street sidewalk project will extend new sidewalks from the high school north on Spring Street to Walton Park, he said. Currently the city is in the process of acquiring the needed easements for thesidewalk. Eighty percent of the cost of this project will be paid with a grant from the Missouri Department of Transportation, with the remaining 20 percent coming from the city.

He said the city is applying for an economic development grant to cover part of the estimated $150,000 cost of replacing 11 windows on the north and east side of the city hall.

A project slated for 2019 will earmark $150,000 for improvements to the city's animal shelter, Marti said, adding that the police chief thinks the shelter will either need to be moved or rebuilt in 2019.

Marti said the renovation of the fuel farm at the municipal airport is in the planning stage and is expected to be completed in 2015 at an estimated cost of $400,000. This project will be paid for with a 90 percent matching grant, leaving the city responsible for $40,000.

The city is also planning to make some improvements next year to the crosswind runway at the airport at a cost of $15,000.

And in 2016 he said the city plans to use a $350,000 federal grant to make improvements to the T-hangar at the airport used by pilots to store their planes.

The capital improvement plan also includes the city's annual street construction program to a tune of $2.5 million over the next five years and $350,000 for the city's slurry seal and crack seal program to extend the life of streets, he said.

Marti said that 2015 will also see the completion of final projects from the 2005 parks sales tax projects -- Earp Park improvements and walking trails, with a combined total of an estimated $167,500. The Earp Park improvements are awaiting the completion of the public safety building.

Other parks projects on the list include $32,000 in 2015 for repairs to the pool at Walton Park, and then adding new fencing to four of the ball fields at Twin Lakes park will cost around $50,000.

He said the city is also looking at replacing the shelter and updating the playground equipment at Davis Park in 2017 at an estimated cost of $44,000,

In 2018 the city is looking at replacing playground equipment at Spring Street Park at an estimated cost of $18,000 and replacing the golf cart shed at Twin Lakes at a cost of about $32,000.

Marti said the water treatment is also in need of some upgrades, including $50,000 in 2015 to disinfect Wells No. 3 and 4; running SCADA fiber to the water wells at an estimated cost of $270,000 in 2016 and replacing the acid room underdrain at a cost of $50,000 in 2016.

The plan also projects constructing a shop and storage building at a cost of $100,000 and adding security fencing at the water treatment plant at a cost of $30,000.

Marti told the commission that the city will continue upgrading the water meters in town at a cost of $250,000 over the next five years and do interior maintenance on the city's water towers for a total cost of $250,00, with $150,000 for the center tower in 2015 and another $130,000 for the north water tower in 2016.

The waste water treatment system will also be in line for work, much of it being completed in 2015.

Marti said the city is planning to replace the lift station at the Industrial Park in 2015 at an estimated cost of $141,000 and to connect the lift station to the city's fiber network at a cost of about $15,000. This will be paid for with the state's Revolving loan program and the city's sewer fund.

Other work planned for the city's waste water collection system includes replacement of the north interceptor line in 2015 at an estimated cost of $655,000; replacement of the south interceptor line in 2015 at an estimated cost of $1,305,000; replacement of the Tower Street interceptor line at an estimated cost of $515,000 and ongoing sewer main replacement at an estimated cost of $526,000 over the next five years.