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Big Bear Central Wastewater Capacity
Little Bear Central Wastewater Capacity
Big Bear Southwest Wastewater Capacity
Goal 4: Improve & Maintain Sound Infrastructure
The city maintains a five‐year Capital Improvements Plan to address current and future needs, ensuring
we maintain and improve our safe and efficient roadways, sidewalks, and water, wastewater and drainage
systems. This allows the city to budget projects and seek financial assistance as needed by applying for
grants or partnering with Tarrant County and surrounding cities. The five‐year plan, which can be found
in the CIP section of the budget, anticipates investing approximately $54.5 million into street projects,
$28.9 million into water projects, $17.9 million into wastewater projects, $6.5 million into parks projects,
and $750,000 into drainage projects for a total $108.5 million investment into the city’s infrastructure.
Approximately half of those improvements will be cash funded.
Strategy 4.1: Expand the Sidewalk Construction Program
Sidewalk investments have been a consistent priority in recent years with annual expenditures
increasingly steadily from just $30,000 eight years ago to $370,336 in FY 2020‐21. For FY 2021‐22, the city
is including a one‐time funding of $3.25 million for sidewalk repair, which should eliminate the backlog of
sidewalk repair requests. In future years, the city will contribute approximately $250,000 annually to
handle emergent repair requests. This results in proposed funding of $5.4 million from FY 2019‐20 through
FY 2025‐26 for sidewalk maintenance alone. In addition, the FY 2022‐23 CIP budget reflects one‐time
funding of $2.5 million to address sidewalk gaps, and FY 2023‐24 through FY 2024‐25 reflect a combined
funding of $1.1 million in one‐times to begin addressing sidewalk gaps specifically in North Keller. This
results in proposed funding of $9 million in new sidewalk construction from FY 2019‐20 through FY 2025‐
26.
Strategy 4.2: Increase Investment in Street Maintenance
FY 2021‐22 street projects include $3.6 million for the annual street maintenance program, $3.5 million
for sidewalk maintenance, $2 million for reconstruction of Shady Grove Road, and $400,000 for the Bear
Creek Bridge erosion project. The FY 2021‐22 annual street maintenance is double the typical annual
contribution due to one‐time funding from the General Fund of $1.8 million. With this year’s contribution,
the combined proposed funding for annual street maintenance is $14.7 million from FY 2019‐20 through
FY 2025‐26. Also included in the five‐year CIP is reconstruction of roads, including Shady Grove, Bourland
and Whitley, and intersections including Bourland/Mt. Gilead and Mt. Gilead/Roanoke Rd., for a total
proposed funding of $19.9 million from FY 2020‐21 through FY 2025‐26. Between annual street
maintenance and reconstruction projects, the city is proposing a $34.7 million investment in street
improvements over the next six years.
In addition, the streets division will be replacing an Asphalt Tack Trailer for $32,000 and a message board
for $22,000 to ensure quality service delivery of the day‐to‐day street maintenance operations.
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