Here’s a quick summary of the Capital Budget, with several things the Wisconsin State Journal left out of their summary of the amendments – which we had 28 days – the shortest amount of time in recent history – to come up with:
CAPITAL BUDGET (text of amendments here)
– New equipment to help enforce the 2 hour parking downtown. The machines have been referred to as autochalk machines. + $147,500 (Amendment 1 – Webber, Verveer)
– More money for the zoo. + $146,000 (Amendment 2 – Mayor, Kerr)
– Cut money for the Council Chambers project. – $50,000 (Amendment 3 – Mayor, Rummel, Verveer, Rummel) OR – $150,000 (Amendment 4 – Konkel, Rhodes-Conway, Solomon) OR – $250,000 (Amendment 5 – Alds. Sanborn, Cnare, Schumacher, Monson, Compton, Pham-Remmele)
– Cut Renewable Energy Project. – $100,000 (Amendment 6 – Alds. Sanborn, Compton, Pham-Remmele)
– Tripling the money to improve the City-County building. +$342,900 (Amendment 7 – Mayor, Verveer, Rummel)
– Adding funding for neighborhood traffic management projects. +50,000 (Amendment 8 – Webber, Konkel)
– Adding funding for Mineral Point and Owen Drive. +145,325 (Amendment 9 – Gruber, Webber)
– Adding funding for pedestrian improvements. +50,000 (Amendment 10 – Webber, Konkel)
– Remove funding for several roads – delaying the projects for a year.
– $270,000 County Hwy PD (Amendment 11 – Rummel, Webber)
– $353,000 County Hwy M at Midtown, Valley View and Watts (Amendment 12 – Rummel, Webber)
– 2,400,000 County Hwy S & M (Amendment 13 – Rummel, Webber)
– 410,000 Femrite Drive (Amendment 14 – Rummel, Webber)
– $270,000 Milwaukee St at I-94. (Amendment 16 – Rummel, Webber)
– Extending the University Avenue project to Henry St. No monetary change. (Amendment 15 – Verveer, Judge)
– Adding costs to the University/Gorham St. Project. +260,000 (Amendment 17 – Verveer, Judge)
– Cutting funding for Central Park. – $250,000 (Amendment 18 – Sanborn, Pham-Remmele, Monson)
– Fixing a budget mistake. – $130,400 (Amendment 19 – Mayor, Bruer)
– Moving some park improvments from Development Fee Projects (paid for by developers) to General Obligation funding (taxes), but have the debt service be paid through impact fees. (Amendment 20 – Cnare, Compton, Clausius, Schumacher)
– Delaying the parking garage on the Madison Municipal Building site until we figure out what we are doing with a downtown hotel and other possible parking ramps. -$1,200,000 (Amendment 21 – Konkel, Rummel, Webber)
– Remove funding for new parking meter equipment that takes credit cards until our credit card charges are under control. -$640,000 of Parking Utility Funds (Konkel, Rummel)
– Remove funding for Small Cap TIF program from years 2010 – 2014. No monetary impact this year. (Amendment 23 – Konkel, Sanborn)
– Adding approval of public process for Badger/Ann/Park St area. No monetary impact this year. (Amendment 24 – Konkel, Bruer) NOTE: This will be amended.
– Adding funding for marketing plan for Bio-Ag Gateway. +100,000 (Amendment 25 – Compton, Cnare, Clear, Sanborn, Schumacher, Skidmore)
– Cut funding for Art Fund. -$112,000 (Amendment 26 – Sanborn, Schumacher, Monson, Pham-Remmele)
– Future funding for Public Market. No monetary impact this year. (Amendment 27 – Rummel, Konkel, Mayor)
– Future funding for a new Economic Development Plan in 2003. No monetary impact this year. (Konkel, Rummel)
I’ll get the operating budget amendments up as fast as I can! Meanwhile, they are here.
