General Obligation Bond Questions - Public Safety

Summary

$4,365,000 for Public Safety What is proposed is a bond question in the amount of $4,365,000 to be used for designing, constructing, repairing, preserving, rehabilitating, enhancing and otherwise improving public safety facilities and repairing, replacing or otherwise improving public safety vehicles, apparatuses, and equipment. Approximately $4,079,250 is estimated to be available for projects after accounting for the required 1% for the Arts, bond issuance costs, and contingency. Current and recurring revenue sources are not keeping pace with municipal government's needs for vehicle and apparatus replacement as well as facility improvements in relation to its public safety departments (Police and Fire & Rescue). The City's adopted Infrastructure and Capital Improvement Plan for 2026-2030 has approximately $17,300,000 identified for police projects with more than $4,800,000 (28 percent) of this cost projected to come from General Obligation Bonds (subject to ballot placement and voter approval), and approximately $4,200,000 (24 percent) in funding to be determined. The City's adopted Infrastructure and Capital Improvement Plan for 2026-2030 has approximately $47,100,000 identified for fire/rescue projects with $4,300,000 (9 percent) of this cost projected to come from General Obligation Bonds (subject to ballot placement and voter approval), and approximately $15,900,000 (34 percent) in funding to be determined.

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