City Council recently approved a $24 million capital plan for the next five years.

Council will borrow

$7.4 million to pay for the projects listed for the first two years of the plan.

The plan is updated every other year.

By far, the most expensive project category is street resurfacing, at about

$1.6 million a year for a total of $8.2 million for the duration of the plan.

Other large expenditures include $1.3 million for sidewalks and curbs, beginning in 2019, $2 million for drainage and sidewalks on 22nd Street, all for 2020; $190,000 a year for a total of $950,000 for fire apparatus and a total of $2.8 million in storm sewer upgrades for Mansion Park, Garden Heights and Pleasant Valley.

Other notable expenditures include $40,000 next year for police body cameras; $550,000 for “best management practices” for stormwater purification in keeping with increasingly strict Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System requirements; $150,000 for a salt dome for the highway yard on Sixth Avenue; $100,000 in 2018 for restrooms and a concession stand at Garfield Park, and $25,000 for dugouts at Kustaborder Field in Juniata.

There is also $300,000 for a heating, ventilating and air-conditioning upgrade at City Hall; a total of $105,000 for new roofs at three fire stations and a total of $300,000 to resurface the bay floors at all four stations.

There is also a total of $115,000 for a Wi-Fi network and a network upgrade.

It is “a reasonable, prioritized and practical list of capital projects to be undertaken by the city over the next five years,” stated the resolution that council approved. “These capital projects are designed to preserve the city’s infrastructure, ensure the safety and efficiency of city personnel and maintain the quality of life in the community.”

The plan is basic, not a wish list, according to a memo accompanying the resolution approved by council.

Council intends to introduce a borrowing ordinance later this month and to adopt it in early November, according to the memo.

The first year of the capital plan will comprise next year’s capital budget.