HUNTER DWORACZYK [email protected]
During a special called meeting Wednesday, Jan. 10, the Taylor City Council will receive a presentation and conduct a workshop on the 2024 preliminary debt-funded capital improvement plan.
HDR, an engineering company, will present different projects for the Capital Improvement Plan consideration.
The projects were included in the city’s 2024 fiscal year budget CIP as possible future debt or grant-funded projects.
According to the meeting’s agenda packet, facilities costs are lower than what was originally budgeted for the current fiscal year since less facility projects are ready to go into design this year. However, pedestrian facilities and parks costs are higher than expected.
One pedestrian facility project consists of a sidewalk to connect south Taylor to north Taylor by Robinson Street, which the agenda packet said would cost $4.5 million and increase walkability throughout the southside of Taylor.
The agenda packet said two projects, maintenance to T.H. Johnson Drive and Lake Drive, would receive similar construction to how Mallard Lane was affected by the 2022 Street Maintenance Project and would be restriped to align with Envision Taylor Comprehensive Plan goals.
Bull Branch Park is attached to a number of proposed projects, including a pavilion replacement, restroom renovation, adding bleachers and a new concrete concourse for the ballfields and installing new handrails to its fishing pier.
The city will begin the process of issuing debt during the meeting by identifying the potential projects to fund through new certificates of obligation in the first quarter of 2024.
