1997-2007 Ten-Year Plan and Expenditure Summaries

Assumptions used in the development of the ten-year plan include the following:

• The recommended capital plan complies with the 7 percent statutory debt limitation.

• In the last two biennia of the capital plan, part of the available appropriation level is not allocated to specific agencies or projects at this time. These amounts are shown under the Office of Financial Management's capital program, and will be allocated to projects in later budget cycles. This reserve is maintained to cover cost increases for currently identified projects, new initiatives and programs that cannot be determined at this time, and new or changing circumstances, including emergencies and natural disasters.

• Project and program descriptions become less specific in the last two biennia to allow agencies flexibility when developing project details at a later time.

• Preservation of existing facilities will remain a priority. The capability to define specific projects in future biennia is limited, and aggregate amounts for this purpose are often shown as various future projects.

The 1997-2007 Capital Plan is a plan, not a budget. The projects proposed for the 1997-99 funding have been carefully reviewed in the context of operating budget decisions and the accuracy of cost estimates. The potential projects listed for subsequent biennia have been reviewed for consistency with today's programmatic issues and reasonableness of cost. Any project identified beyond 1997-99 should not be interpreted as a specific commitment to include that project in a future budget, but rather as an indication that, given the information available today, the state plans to move forward with this project list in the future.

Table 1 - by County
Table 1 - by Legislative District
Table 2 - 1997 - 99 Capital Program Summary by Source Funds
Table 3 - 1997 - 99 Summary of Capital Budget by Appropriation, Status and Sub-Fund