By Jason Stone | Your Valley
Surprise needs new parks, an additional pool and several road improvements, among other things, as the city grows.
Now, city staff has a roadmap on where the put its capital improvement money over the next five years.
City Manager Bob Wingenroth and the finance staff brought the Surprise City Council 82 capital projects to rank in order of importance at a May 3 work session.
In about 90 minutes the five-person council — Councilmen Roland Winters and Ken Remley were absent — picked nearly two dozen projects it wants funded first.
It includes a 50-meter community pool, a possible regional park and road improvements, mostly in the growing northern part of the city.
The five-year project forecast that city staff presented the council totaled $959 million, topped by Public Works ($360 million), Parks and Recreation ($152 million) and Sports and Tourism ($121 million).
