Tumwater’s Transportation & Engineering Director Brandon Hicks introduced the Capital Facilities Plan (CFP)’s General Government and Transportation project list to the Planning Commission during a meeting last June 11, 2023.
“CFP is part of the city's comprehensive plan. It's a six-year coordinated plan, and it details capital projects that we're intending to dedicate resources to,” Hicks said. “The capital projects that make the CFP typically deal with purchase construction, replacement, addition, or major repairs for public facilities and then major equipment too.”
Hicks also clarified that although it involves allocating funds, the CFP is not a final commitment on how to spend these funds.
Just because it's not a financial commitment, that does not mean that it's not important, because it lays the groundwork for the projects that eventually make the budget,” Hicks clarified.
The CFP groups city expenditures into five programmatic classifications: General Government, Transportation, Water, Sanitary Sewer, and Storm Drain. These classifications belong to non-utility or utility categories.
Hicks explained that non-utility projects are funded by a variety of sources, including general fund dollars, grants, utility taxes, real estate, excise taxes, impact fees, metropolitan parks districts, transportation benefit district.
“There's a lot of other sources, but those are going to be the major ones,” said Hicks. “Utility projects are funded primarily through rates and developers, and storm projects receive grants as well.”
The commission started its discussions of the 2024 - 2029 CFP at the July 11 meeting with an introduction to general government and transportation project lists.
The General Government CFP includes projects that support programs and activities typically associated with operating a city, such as emergency services, parks and recreation, city facilities, and general projects/programs.
The Transportation CFP includes projects supporting multi-modal programs and projects to preserve and improve existing infrastructure’s function and safety and provide the capacity necessary to accommodate the growth related to planned land use.
These projects can include preservation, pedestrian and non-motorized accommodations, safety, capacity, and growth.
There are 39 projects in the general government CFP with a projected total cost of $76.5 million and 26 projects in the transportation CFP with a projected total cost of $82.9 million.
The CFP is updated every two years and is scheduled for review by the City Council this fall.
On September 26, 2023, the Planning Commission plans to begin a collective review of all the Final Docket of Comprehensive Plan amendments.
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