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Council member inquires about decrease in DOT's capital commitment plan
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Council Member Justin Brannan questions DOT officials about a significant decrease in the DOT's executive capital commitment plan for FY 2025-2029. Executive Deputy Commissioner Paul Ochoa explains the process of moving funds between fiscal years and determining project timelines.
- The capital commitment plan decreased by 12.5% ($1.67 billion) from the preliminary budget
- DOT works with OMB and City Hall to adjust funding allocations without impacting project schedules
- Project timelines are determined in coordination with other agencies like DDC and DEP
- No projects have been delayed due to budget adjustments so far
Justin Brannan
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Okay.
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Moving to the capital plan.
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The DOT's executive capital commitment plan for FY twenty five to twenty nine is 12 and a half percent less than the capital commitment plan in preliminary budget.
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It's a decrease of 1,670,000,000.00.
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Why was there such a large decrease in the DOT capital plan?
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Yeah.
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The DOT's executive capital commitment plan for FY twenty five to twenty nine.
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So how did you determine along with OMB which projects would be pushed out to later years in the plan?
Paul Ochoa
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Were you talking about a specific fiscal year?
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I'm sorry.
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I didn't catch the first part of the
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So the capital commitment, we move money around.
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If for example we have capital stretch exercises, it's an accounting sort of exercise.
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What we do when we work with OMB and City Hall to make sure that we don't actually impact schedules which is the most important thing.
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If a project is funded say in fiscal twenty seven and we need to move the money up to fiscal twenty five, we do that all the time.
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It does require constant coordination with OMB and City Hall but we do that.
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So if there is a decrease in fiscal twenty five and we move money around to fiscal twenty six and '27, it's just an accounting to make sure that we're not over committing and the city is not bonding out more than what it needs to in fiscal twenty five.
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Yeah.
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The first order that we do is to align projects with schedules.
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So we work with DDC, DEP.
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A lot of our street projects for example have DEP components and they're managed by DDC.
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So the first thing we ask is say, okay of all these projects programmed for fiscal twenty five, which one of these are likely going to slip into fiscal twenty six?
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And if that work with all three agencies to make sure that's and OMB to make sure that's the case.
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Once we see that, then we say okay well if that project slipped then we are gonna move the money accordingly.
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And then if we don't meet the target by just aligning with schedules, then we look at projects that we can you know move out the funding with the understanding that the funding is going to be brought back into a fiscal year to make sure that it advances.
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We haven't delayed a project because of any stretch exercises yet.