Study Purpose and Scope
The Lincoln City Charter assigns the responsibility for assembling the City's
annual six-year Capital Improvement Program (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.
The individual capital project requests are submitted to the Planning Department
to be assembled into a single document and to then be reviewed for their
conformity with the City-County Comprehensive Plan. The entire process takes
place over of 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. (The
City Council never actually adopts the six-year Capital Improvement Program.
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 actually adopted each year by the City Council.)
Study Process and Timing
The initial draft of the City's six-year Capital Improvement Program is
typically released in early May of each calendar year. The City-County Planning
Commission usually holds a public hearing on this edition of the CIP in or near
the middle of May following the document's release. Following the Commission's
hearing and action on the draft, the document (with any amendments from the
Mayor) is then issued to the City Council. The Council will then typically
hold a public hearing in August on the City's capital and operating budgets.
Final approval of both budgets is usually near the end of August.
Staff Contact
For further information about the status of this endeavor, contact Sara Hartzell at
shartzell@lincoln.ne.gov or by
calling> the City-County Planning Department at 441-7491.
Visit Capital Improvement Program Website
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