A CIP outlines a city’s next five years of major infrastructure improvements, including mobility, drainage, facilities and parks projects, according to city documents. Shashi Kumar, the public works director for Missouri City, said projects funded through a CIP must cost more than $50,000 and have a useful lifetime of at least 20 years. A city funds the first year of that five-year plan in its annual budget.
Of the city of Sugar Land’s $299 million budget, $59.1 million goes toward its CIP. Meanwhile, Missouri City put $30.8 million of its $134.6 million budget toward its CIP. Both city’s budgets went into effect Oct. 1.
About $8.1 million of the $30.8 million included in Missouri City’s CIP funds transportation projects.
The largest transportation-related expense—at $2.5 million—is Missouri City’s Pavement Maintenance and Management Program.
“This is the program that funds pothole repairs and panel replacements across the city,” Kumar said in a July 19 CIP presentation. “We’re seeing a growing need for this.”
Additional Missouri City mobility projects include sidewalk repairs, traffic signal upgrades, citywide street and bike lane restriping, and a developer reimbursement for infrastructure in the Park 8Ninety business park, city documents show.
One of Sugar Land’s mobility-related CIP projects for FY 2021-22 will be intersection improvements at Brooks Street and First Colony Boulevard at Hwy. 6. The project aims to improve traffic congestion and mobility at the intersection. It will also widen Brooks and First Colony at their Hwy. 6 intersections to five lanes. Those updates will cost about $450,000.
“We are proud of our commitment to finding innovative ways to deliver services and value meeting residents’ expectations,” said Sugar Land City Manager Michael W. Goodrum.
