The Issaquah City Council unanimously voted to approve the 2017-2022 Capital Improvement Plan at the council’s first regular meeting of 2017 on Jan. 3.

The plan, which city staff has been working on since early 2016, lays out the city’s capital improvement projects for the upcoming six years.

“The CIP serves as a vision for the future. It is a means by which capital investment priorities are established and it provides a mechanism for delivering on those priorities,” Issaquah Mayor Fred Butler said in a Jan. 3 letter to council members and residents.

Finance Director Jennifer Olson explained at the meeting that the CIP is “to be considered a placeholder document” while the capital budget policy and 2018-2023 CIP “are updated and developed under improved processes.” This work is due to begin at the Jan. 17 council meeting, she added.

“I think what’s most important in my mind … is that we adopt a timeline that gives us the best chance to complete this process prior to the [2018] budgeting effort later in the year,” Councilmember Paul Winterstein said. Olson confirmed that this would be the case.

Capital improvement projects are organized into eight categories in the CIP: technology and systems, public safety, parks and recreation, transportation, water utility, sewer utility, stormwater utility and capital equipment. Olson gave a brief synopsis of some of the main projects in each category slated for this year.

In technology and network systems, this will mean the continued implementation of Munis software($300,000 requested), Trakit software updates ($173,000) and other system improvements, while public safety projects will include the purchase of two new police vehicles ($160,000 total) and a security camera system upgrade, in which 43 cameras will be purchased ($150,000).

The parks and recreation category will see improvements to Central Park ($3.73 million), Confluence Park Phases II and III ($1,332,710) and the construction of the Skate Park ($495,000). Transportation will encompass the Southeast 62nd Street extension ($15,567,135), improvements along Newport Way from Northwest Maple Street to West Sunset Way ($2.1 million), Street Overlay Program ($900,000) and Complete Streets Program ($776,000).

Water and sewer utilities will include improvements to the South Cove/Greenwood Point system ($350,000), improvements to the Pickering Area Sewer ($756,000) and the refurbishment of the Wildwood Reservoir ($475,000). Capital equipment projects will be the purchase of replacement trucks, trailers and other equipment ($309,000 total).

The largest revenue sources for 2017 capital projects include grants ($19,742,418), utility operating revenue ($5,424,500), impact fees ($2,308,610) and bonds ($1,802,000).

“I just wanted to thank Jen [Olson] and the staff … I think this really reflects where the council is right now and what our intent is,” Councilmember Mary Lou Pauly said.

Council President Stacy Goodman was not present for the vote.