2004 Goals, Objectives and Strategies
Maintaining and Improving County Facilities

Goal: To maintain and improve the quality of the County roads, buildings and related infrastructure, to both provide quality service to residents and save future funds by avoiding the additional expenses related to maintenance activities.

Objectives
Maximize Value of Capital Spending
Prioritize Capital Spending
1. Prepare cost/benefit analysis. 2. Include future costs of operating and maintaining infrastructure in decision making.
Budget and Other Initiatives
a. Refine methods to determine what expenses are reduced/increased and revenues which are reduced/increased in each capital project.

b. Share this work in meetings with requested departments.

c. Require cost/benefit analysis in capital project requests where there are potential operating budget impacts in connection with the proposed project.

a. Use information from cost/benefit analysis as a factor used by Development Coordination Board and Capital Project Committee in arriving at decisions.

b. Use cost/benefit analysis of projects included in Capital Budget to determine future operating budget impacts.