Why program capital improvements?
to avoid overlooking large, critically needed projects to balance the needs of different sectors of the community with those of the community as a whole to take the community’s long-range needs into account each year when considering the annual capital budget to allow more ample time to examine alternative funding sources to help make the development of major facilities consistent with the community’s goals and objectives, anticipated growth, and financial capabilities to ensure that highest priority projects are constructed or acquired first to adopt a more business-like and responsible approach to solving community problems and to discourage piecemeal, uncoordinated, “brush fire” approaches to encourage citizen interest and constructive participation in community affairs to facilitate intergovernmental cooperation by keeping other governments informed about the governing body’s construction intentions to help reduce some of the risk in private development by adhering carefully to a w
