By Heather Michon
Correspondent
With planning for Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22) now in its final weeks, the Board of Supervisors is preparing to vote on a $25 million capital improvement package, including $16.5 million for a new administration building and over $3 million in new fire and rescue vehicles.
Capital Improvement Plans, or CIPs, are expenditures focused on building, upgrading repairing, or replacing equipment and infrastructure, generally over a four-year period.
In recent years, supervisors have taken a fairly conservative approach to CIP funding, balancing the need to keep the county’s debt levels manageable against the pressures of maintaining aging buildings and infrastructure.