$56,832,500.00 in Bond-Funded Projects - 2004 Capital Budget

[Night Owl]

2004 Capital Budget
Bond-Funded Projects

Improvements to Various Buildings $1,500,000.00
Capital Building Professional Oversight $396,000.00
Court Facility Improvements-Final Phase $5,000,000.00
Code Compliance & Reconstruction of Buildings $700,000.00
Roof Replacement & Waterproffing-Various $750,000.00
Electrical Systems Improvements $500,000.00
Mechanical Systems Improvements $500,000.00
Exterior Building & Envelope Rehabilitation $500,000.00
Indoor Air Quality $125,000.00
Rehabilitation of Ralph Wilson Stadium $2,500,000.00
Convention Center Renovations & Improvements $1,000,000.00
Botanical Gardens Master Plan Construction $1,000,000.00
Modular Office Component Systems $250,000.00
Signal & Intersection Improvements-Various $33,000.00
Como Park Boulevard PIN 5755.83 $49,200.00
Seneca Creek Pathway/ Tonawanda Rails to Trails $54,000.00
Unanticipated Road & Bridge Costs $100,000.00
Capital Road & Bridge Costs-Various $1,200,000.00
Capital Overlay Program $10,000,000.00
Highway Safety Enhancements $750,000.00
Pavement Life Enhancements $750,000.00
Bridge Design & Construction $2,000,000.00
Culvert Reconstruction $750,000.00
Expansion of Locker Areas $250,000.00
Holding Center Perimeter Security $350,000.00
Wireless Infrasructure Improvement Project $225,000.00
SAP Functionality Expansion $4,000,000.00
PC Replacement $3,000,000.00
Enterprise Technology Infrastructure Implementation $1,000,000.00
Computer Intrusion Avoidance $2,000,000.00
Parks Building Construction & Rehabilitation $250,000.00
Grover Cleveland Water Lines - Phase II $300,000.00
Improvements to Various Parks $250,000.00
Parks Equipment $500,000.00
Parks Roadways $200,000.00
Court Renovations $300,000.00
Registar System Replacement $500,000.00
Public Records Backscanning & Indexing $250,000.00
Central Library Escalator Replacement $1,600,000.00
Central Library Interior Renovations -Phase II $1,205,000.00
Library Books & Media Equipment $4,500,000.00
Industrial Infrastructure & Sites $500,000.00
Buffalo Zoological Gardens-South American Rainforest Exhibit $2,000,000.00
Tow Path Park - Phase II $526,000.00
Storm Water Outfall Mappings/GIS Enhancements $109,200.00
District Attorney Office Renovations $360,100.00
ECMC Campus Master Plan & Implementation $50,000.00
Mainframe Application/Data Migration $1,750,000.00

TOTAL $56,832,500.00

[Night Owl]

I am amazed this thread didn't as much attention from the start.

This is what I find interesting..

Parks Equipment $500,000.00
Parks Roadways $200,000.00
Improvements to Various Parks $250,000.00
Parks Building Construction & Rehabilitation $250,000.00
Tow Path Park - Phase II $526,000.00

$1,726,000.00 for 5 park related projects.

Two more projects (not listed in the bond-funded projects) appeared in a different list of "pay as you go" projects include:

Various Parks Buildings & Roads $300,000.00
Parks Master Plan - Phase II $2,900,000.00

Between the two entities from the Erie County Capital budget of 2004, $4,926,000.00 went for just 7 "projects" related to the parks.

To me, it seems a bit excessive for just 14 County Parks.

[Night Owl]

Buffalo Zoological Gardens-South American Rainforest Exhibit $2,000,000.00

Was a South African Rainforest Exhibit so important to the County that 2 million dollars were bonded for it?

Rehabilitation of Ralph Wilson Stadium $2,500,000.00

You mean Ralph Wilson couldn't cough-up $2.5 million to rehabilitate a stadium with his name on it?

PC Replacement $3,000,000.00

I really hope it's $3 million for replacing computers throughout the entire County. And not just a select few.

Central Library Escalator Replacement $1,600,000.00
Central Library Interior Renovations -Phase II $1,205,000.00
Library Books & Media Equipment $4,500,000.00

They could have skipped the million dollar renovation project and bonded less that could have went into all of the County Branches.