A week after Coquitlam city council called for a 2.41% boost to residential property taxes in 2018, Port Coquitlam city council is ramping up its proposed capital plan for next year.
On Monday and Tuesday — starting at 4:30 p.m. in the Heritage Room at city hall — PoCo city council will talk about future infrastructure projects in the two-year strategy that council adopted earlier this year as part of a streamlined budget.
For 2018, council will consider:
• adding $245,500 for fleet replacement and $13,600 for the RCMP Public Safety Building it shares with Coquitlam, on Guildford Way (painting and cell door replacement);
• deferring renovations to McLean Park until 2019 (to allow for Fox Park work to proceed);
• and relocating a high-pressure watermain along the Donald Avenue pathway.
Council will also look at new funding for city bus shelters (with money from shelter contract advertising revenues); updating the Fox Park playground; utility upgrades to Mary Hill Road and Kelly Avenue, for the community recreation complex projects; and intersection improvements at Nicola Avenue and Hawkins Street, in the Dominion Triangle.
Council will continue its capital project deliberations, if needed, on Dec. 18 and 19.
Meanwhile, public comment on the draft operating and capital budgets will begin in January or February.
• To see the city department business plans and review the budget process, visit portcoquitlam.ca/budget.
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