The Lincoln City Charter assigns responsibility for assembling the City's
annual six-year CIP to the City Planning Department. This process involves
coordinating the assessment of the City's capital needs across more than a
dozen different departments and agencies. Each City department projects
capital needs and creates an improvement program for a six-year period. The
individual capital project requests are submitted to the Planning Department
and assembled into a single document. Each project is evaluated for
conformity with the City-County Comprehensive Plan along with the most recent
funding projections and revenue calculations.
Currently, the City Council does not adopt the six-year CIP. The capital
projects appearing in the first-year of the six-year CIP are placed into a
separate document that becomes known as the Capital Budget. It is the Capital
Budget that is adopted each year by the City Council.
Lincoln's six-year CIP is updated annually beginning in winter, when City
departments prepare their proposed capital improvement program. The CIP is
reviewed for conformity with the City-County Comprehensive Plan by the
Planning Commission. The Mayor forwards the CIP, along with the Planning
Commission's recommendation and public testimony to the Lincoln City Council.
The entire process takes place over a period of nearly nine months and
culminates in the City Council's adoption of a one-year Capital Budget in
August of each year.
Capital Improvement Program
Capital Improvement Program