FirmoGraphs keeps its clients up to date on capital plans of interest for long-term business development. We help our customers use this information to gain a competitive advantage and improve proactive conversations with their clients. We recently processed the latest capital spending plan by the city of Bozeman, Montana. Here are our observations.
In the CIP covering the 2025-2029 fiscal years, Bozeman detailed plans to spend $338 million on capital projects, an increase of 13% from $349 million in its 2024-2028 CIP. The current CIP has 357 line items, compared to 352 line items in the prior CIP. The table below breaks down Bozeman’s planned capital spending by business area for its last two CIPs.
*Numbers are Rounded
City of Bozeman, Montana, Planned Capital Spending Increased By 13%
Planned spending in the Wastewater Impact Fee increased by 359% due to the transfer of projects. This transfer included the Water Reclamation Facility Phase 1 and 2, totaling $21 million, from the Wastewater category. Consequently, there was a 46% decrease under this category.
Bozeman's Budget Breakdown: Multi-Million Dollar Projects Reshape City Landscape
Bozeman has two notable line items valued at over $25 million and three at over $10 million. The largest line item is the construction of consolidated and expanded facility capacity for Streets, Water, Sewer,Stormwater, Water Conservation, Parks, and Facilities operations, worth $56 million, under the Shops Complex category. Listed below are the other notable line items:
- Kagy: 19th to Willson - worth $31 million, under the Street Impact Fee category. This project consists of reconstructing Kagy Blvd from the intersection of S 19th to Willson including two travel lanes in each direction, turn lanes as needed, roundabouts at the intersections with S 11th S 7th, traffic signal upgrades at the intersection with Willson and 19th, a 10-foot shared-use path on both sides of the corridor, pedestrian tunnels at S 11th and to connect the Gallagator Trail, landscaping, and street lighting.
- Lyman Tank & Transmission Main - worth $20 million, under the Water category. This project includes construction of a new 5 million-gallon storage tank at the City’s Lyman water source, decommissioning the existing Lyman storage tank, condition assessment-based repairs of the existing Lyman transmission main, new supply main tie into new storage tank, new transmission main tie in from new storage tank to existing transmission main, new chlorination/fluoridation feed facility.
- Fowler Avenue Connection (Huffine to Oak) - worth $19 million, under the Street Impact Fee category. This project will complete this section of Fowler from Huffine to Oak in four phases.
- Fire Station 4 - worth $18 million, under the General Fund category. Fire Station 1 was relocated with the Bozeman Public Safety Center, and the relocation of Fire Station 2 is expected to occur in the General Fund for FY24.
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