The process has begun for the Allen County commissioners to decide what projects will be completed in 2019.
Commissioners, along with the county finance director and the building and grounds department, are going line by line prioritizing requests for capital improvement projects. Nearly 5-million dollars worth of requests have been made but there are only 2.5-million dollars available in the capital budget. So each request is getting a letter category of A, B, or C to narrow down the immediate needs.
"But we do our due diligence to really sit down and try to prioritize and really look at if OK if we don't take care of this what is the cost just put a band-aid on it right now and maybe think about it in six, eight, or a year from now, so you got to weigh all those options," explained Commissioner Cory Noonan.
Noonan says to meet all the annual maintenance demands for the county would be upwards of 1.7 million dollars. He says there aren't enough funds to meet that and immediate needs as well, so some things will have to be put on the back burner.
Commissioners hope to have the capital budget completed in the next several weeks.
