FY2024-FY2029 Adopted Capital Improvement Program

FY2024 Adopted Budget Capital Improvement Program Budget Calendar

Asset Management

The Capital budget makes two primary kinds of asset investment: acquisition of new assets and rehabilitation / replacement of old assets. Both types of investment have an impact on the Operating Budget. Timely rehab or replacement can minimize operating expenses by either actually reducing a current expense or avoiding a future expense. An example of this would be the replacement of heavy duty work truck that has reached the end of its economic useful life. Continued operation of such a vehicle often results in escalating maintenance costs as parts wear out and reduced productivity while the vehicle is out of service for repairs. Similar analogies can made for other asset classes such as buildings, roads, bridges and water and sewer systems. The FY2024 operating budget is benefitting from prior year capital investment in asset repair and replacement and has only minimal increases in the operating budget for maintenance expense. As an expense category, the FY2024 operating budget increase in repair and maintenance expense is $1,763,179, or 11.28%.

FY2023 FY2024 Budget Budget % Repair/Maintenance Expense: 15,624,188 17,387,367 1,763,179 11.28% Change $

Examples of expenses in this category include: road markings, roadway maintenance, building/grounds maintenance, equipment repair, radio maintenance, and fleet charges

The second type of operating budget impact is associated with new assets becoming operational. In FY2024 there are new costs associated with prior capital investment in parks, libraries, Watershed-NPDES and the new Prospect Center County building expansion. A park expansion will be operational for a portion of FY2024 adding $251,303 to the FY2024 budget and a Park School at Brunswick Elementary School will add $217,890 to the FY2024 budget as well. Also, one library has operating costs in FY2024 budget, totaling $337,422. Maintenance expense for the Watershed NPDES compliance in FY2024 will add $736,216 to the budget. The building expansion at Prospect Center operations has $401,075 added to the FY2024 budget. In the years ahead, the County will be utilizing an Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) system to further improve this linkage between the operating and capital budgets. Scheduling and budgeting for the replacement of assets when they reach the end of their economic useful life will optimize use of the limited funding available. This in turn will prevent the County from creating a backlog of deferred maintenance resulting from underfunding infrastructure re-investment.

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