The Town of Camp Verde has a lot of things it wants to accomplish.
It just doesn’t necessarily have the cash it needs to cross off everything on the list.
With the budget for the 2015-16 fiscal year in its final stages of preparation, the Town Council sat down last week, rolled up its sleeves and tried to make a few priorities when it comes to spending tax money.
Town Manager Russ Martin pointed to the town’s five-year capital improvement plan, approved by a previously elected council, which covers a lot of things the town wanted to see built or purchased by then.
That five-year plan was originally approved in April 2012 and was the first such plan adopted by the council since 2001.
Some of the projects on the list have already been addressed, like repairing the bottom of the town-owned Heritage Swimming Pool.
Others remain somewhere further down the road, like the acquisition of the local water system.
Drainage improvement projects have been a constant effort by the town.
“This is a great opportunity to consider capital improvement projects,” Martin said. “We have millions of dollars in needs. It’s a great opportunity but a tough job.”
Last week, the Town Council looked at how to spend the few hundred thousand dollars that can be possibly spent in the next fiscal year, which starts Wednesday, July 1.
To read the full story, see the Wednesday, June 10, edition of The Camp Verde Journal.
