Developing a Capital Plan for the Future…

Developing and maintaining infrastructure is one of the City’s most important and critical responsibilities.  It is important to all residents of the community to have safe streets to drive on, a functioning storm drain system, traffic signals, sidewalks and quality recreation spaces such as community centers and parks.  These improvements can be very expensive, and there is a long list of competing needs throughout the City.  The projects range from trail improvements and street improvements to building improvements and the development of parks and athletic fields.  With such a long list, and limited funding from year to year, it is important to have a plan in place that looks out to the future and provides a strategic approach to implementing these projects.  This is the reason for developing a Capital Improvement Plan (CIP).  The CIP is a guide to efficiently allocate resources for improving and maintaining public infrastructure and facilities.  Once developed, the CIP will serve as a five-year road map for creating, maintaining, and funding present and future infrastructure requirements.

In 2008, the City Council established a goal in its Tactical Plan to identify infrastructure deficiencies and develop a plan to construct, renew, improve and maintain the City’s infrastructure and facilities.  Since then, City staff has been working to identify all infrastructure needs and organize them into a draft plan.  These needs have been identified over the years through the development of various documents such as the General Plan, Vision Plan, Public Use Master Plan, Pavement Management Plan, Storm Drain Master Plan and many others.  The needs identified in these plans have been combined with others indentified by staff, community members and elected officials.  A draft plan was presented to the City Council during the 2009 budget process.  The City Council considered all of the proposed projects and available funding, and prioritized the projects into a five-year plan.  The plan is a dynamic document that will evolve to meet changing community needs, and it will be evaluated during the annual budget process. 

• Click Here to view the FY09-10 Five Year Capital Improvement Plan.
• Click here to view the June 18, 2009 City Council Staff Report and DRAFT Capital Improvement Plan.
• Click here to view the March 21, 2009 City Council Budget Workshop Staff Report and DRAFT Capital Improvement Plan.
• Click Here to view the January 15, 2009 City Council Staff Report and Capital Improvement Project Inventory

For further information about the RPV CIP, please contact Sara Singer with the City of Rancho Palos Verdes at 310-544-5204 or via email at saras@rpv.com.