Committee notes CAO’s five-year CTIP report; CAO outlines funding and equity updates

CAO staff presented the city’s annual five-year Capital and Technology Improvement Plan (CTIP), highlighting funding breakdowns, program categories and two procedural updates: integration of the MAID equity index and a climate-alignment assessment.

Elise Lee of the CAO’s office said the projected general fund revenue for 2526 is $8.2 billion and the CTIP general-fund allocation is $90,950,000, about 1.11% of general-fund revenue and below the city’s 1.5% policy target. CAO staff said the CTIP total allocation for 2526 is $908.7 million, driven largely by clean-water projects that account for approximately 78% of the total and received an additional $482.6 million this year.

The CAO described the CTIP’s four main areas—municipal facilities, information-technology modernization, physical-plant projects in the public right-of-way, and clean-water projects—and explained that department project submissions are evaluated against criteria such as health-and-safety risk, legal mandates, resiliency and equity. Sarah Gandhi from the CAO’s equity team explained that the MAID (modern areas of disadvantage) index scores every census tract from 0 to 100; tract scores of 60 or above are treated as higher priority and 80 or above as very high need for consideration in prioritization.

Council members asked for a consolidated estimate of the city’s unfunded capital backlog and for detail about how MAID influenced project selection; CAO staff agreed to provide a combined backlog estimate to council staff. The chair recommended the committee note and file the CTIP report; the motion was seconded by Council member Hutt and approved by roll call (two ayes, one absent).