So today we are going to be talking about how to prioritize our capital projects.

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So with one of our goals for the year being building out our capital plan for the department.

Before we actually start talking about projects and how we prioritize or how we when we're going to do them.

Some that will ideally help us with prioritizing our capital projects.

So if you remember a couple months ago, we I came in and we talked about what a capital project is, why building out a plan this important, um, kind of what qualifies, what doesn't qualify.

Um, and then the first set of projects that we're going to get into is the above ground park infrastructure.

So looking at playgrounds, um, judge general amenities in the park.

But I didn't want to just bring those to the group and us try to start sorting them on priority.

Um, so instead we've been working on um this set of criteria.

Um, and I can I can read them to you, but um we've got community beautification, tourism or recreational impact, cultural or historical significance, sustainability or environmental goals, master plan alignment, infrastructure improvement, ongoing expenses, long-term operational and maintenance costs, compatibility with other capital projects, external funding feasibility, equity and access improvements, strategic excuse me, strategic plan alignment, public safety and risk mitigation, and then regulatory compliance and legal implications.

So these are all the factors that we're considering when we're looking at a project.

Um above them on the sheet, you'll see different weights of one through five.

So um going left to right.

They're kind of an order of significance as far as how much weight they carry.

Um, and then if you look at the packet here, um each criteria has a description and then um a four zero one three five rating.

There's a lot to digest here, and so essentially what we're gonna do is we're gonna send this home with everybody.

I'm gonna send a list of projects and descriptions, and we're gonna have everybody fill out their matrix.

And part of that is trying to figure out if we have a decent consensus if it's if this is working well, if we're all landing in similar areas.

Um then it's also sorry, I love I just lost my train of thought.

Um see if we have a consensus, and if we feel like it's working well, we'll actually start plugging the real capital projects that we've identified into it to help prioritize um what projects we want to do in the next couple years versus further years out.

Can you just remind me like the capital projects are not the general priorities like in the recreation master plan or whatever?

They're they're things that are coming up that you have to allocate money for specifically.

They can be identified in the master plan, um, but they are projects that are outside of our normal OM uh operations and maintenance.

Right.

Um doesn't include things like programming, um anything that's like a day-to-day is usually not a capital plan.

So large infrastructure replacements, um new builds or new construction are usually like two of the the biggest that you'll see as far as a capital project.

So within parks, it could be replacing a playground, replacing an irrigation system, building a new park, um, building a new amenity, like a new um sports like sports field or um court, um so if we were to um let's just say a high-level example would be of like the Lions Park, yeah, uh playground.

Would we go through and based on so community beautification?

The first page here, like does it the project enhance the physical beauty of the city?

I would give that a ranking based on my opinion.

Like if I think that is going to like really beautify the city by the aesthetics and morale of the community, yada yada, whatever the description is, I would give it a five if I think it matches that is that how the matrix works.

Yes, I mean I would try to be more objective than just your own personal feelings.

So just thinking about the city as a whole, representing the constituents, yeah.

Um I obviously there's gonna be projects that are more personal to you, right?

But trying to look at it more big picture of how it impacts the city as a whole.

Got it.

Obviously, some bias like will come through in your evaluation.

I you know, we can't just completely turn that off, but I guess less about opinion, just more about if I was thinking about it in the right way as to what this should be.

So, like again, just using that as an example so I'm extra clear.

Would Lions playground be um like a five because of the safety of having 25-year-old playground equipment?

Oh, sorry, from infrastructure infrastructure improvement on the third page.

Um yes, I think in that case, five would be appropriate.

Um, especially if you're looking at something like a playground that is so old that we're having trouble finding replacement parts.

Got it.

Um, and so it's getting to a point where like you can no longer repair it.

Okay, got it.

Okay, that's clear.

Um the reason I wanted to put this together was you know, there's other departments in the city that have really clear metrics on how they replace things.

Public works is really good example.

Um, when they look at asphalt, they have a pavement condition index, and it really just tells them like this is the order of importance of how you replace your roads.

Um we don't have a lot of like very straightforward metrics.

Um you know, we do have a degree of life cycle replacement that we deal with, but you know, going back to the 25-year-old playground, we do have some that are that age that are actually in really good condition because they just don't get used as much, right?