Olympia’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee (BPAC) formed a subcommittee assigned to review the preliminary 2024 - 2029 Capital Facilities Plan (CFP) yesterday, July 19.
“The subcommittee's task would be to draft a letter to the city council for the full committee to review at the September meeting and suggest changes,” said Staff Liaison and Senior Planner Michelle Swanson.
BPAC approved the motion to create a focused subcommittee comprised of a chair and three members, with a member (Riedmayer) who has prior experience with the task ahead.
Swanson also discussed the Preliminary CFP that will be reviewed, “The preliminary plan should be published in August. As part of your review of the CFP, we encourage you to go over the transportation chapter in the comprehensive plan. We also encourage you to review the transportation master plan.”
“The CFP is a planning document. It serves as the basis for the capital budget, which is adopted by the city council typically at the end of the year for the following year,” Swanson added.
The city has two budgets for each year: the capital budget and the operating budget. The capital budget is based on the first year of projects in the CFP, or what the city spends on building new infrastructures; the operating budget is what the city spends on services, such as police and fire, and maintaining the things that were previously built in earlier years.
“The TMP, prioritizes different projects by different criteria. Many are identified as projects that we plan to do in the next 20 years. The order in which we build them may depend on funding opportunities,” said Swanson.
The CFP is also a funding document that reflects the planning efforts in the comprehensive plan and the TMP.
Swanson also mentioned some of the developments this year:
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