KINGSPORT TENNESSEE

Budget Summary - Top Projects
City Manager’s Traditional Budget
• Balanced without revenue increases
• Implements start of sustainable paving program
• Maintains the long term downward trend of full-time
employees per capita
• Provides targeted funding for facilities maintenance,
technology infrastructure
• Rewards departments who were able to eliminate/
consolidate/reallocate
Over $56M in current
projects funded through
traditional budget
OneKingsport Initiative (details p. 13)
• Annually, $2.4 million (funded through property tax,
supplanted by $8 sanitation fee)
• $1 million for OneKingsport Investments
($700,000 cash/$300,000 debt service)
• $1.4 million for annual maintenance/operating
Summit Workgroup Breakdown for Year 1 Projects:
46% Housing
17% Downtown Revitalization
17% Arts & Entertainment
10% Job Creation & Entrepreneurship
5% Destination City Investments (natural assets)
3% Higher Education Innovation
3% Health &Wellness
Top 15 - New Capital Projects (excluding water & sewer)
1. MeadowView Renovations (20th anniversary) $3,500,000
2. Indian Trail Drive extension $3,300,000
3. Street Resurfacing (Paving) $1,350,000
4. Centennial Park (match private) $ 851,400
5. Facilities Maintenance – Schools $ 750,000
6. Local match for new Transit Center $ 376,300
7. Bays Mountain dam repair $ 370,000
8. Citywide park improvements $ 350,000
9. Citywide aesthetics/beautification $ 350,000
10. Facilities Maintenance – City Buildings $ 330,000
11. Technology Infrastructure $ 330,000
12. Library Renovations (phase 2 of 5) $ 250,000
13. Bays Mountain road stabilization $ 320,000
14. Lynn View site improvements $ 200,000
15. J. Fred Johnson Park – parking improvements $ 200,000
Top 15 - Existing Capital Projects
1. Rebuild raw water intake $13,500,000
2. Rebuild Rock Springs Road to Cox Hollow $ 7,500,000
3. Reedy Creek Sewer Trunkline $ 5,600,000
4. Indian Trail Drive extension $ 3,300,000
5. Colonial Heights Water/Sewer Ph II $ 3,200,000
6. Colonial Heights Water/Sewer Ph III $ 2,600,000
7. Systemwide water upgrades FY15 Ph 1 $ 2,600,000
8. Colonial Heights Water/Sewer Ph IV $ 2,500,000
9. Systemwide water upgrades FY15 Ph 2 $ 1,900,000
10. Main Street rebuild $ 1,700,000
11. Fort Henry/Moreland sewer rehabilitation $ 1,100,000
12. Demolition Landfill $ 1,000,000
13. Kingsport Greenbelt – eastern extension $ 940,000
14. ARC sewer system upgrade $ 900,000
15. Stone Drive pedestrian improvements (State) $ 697,000
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