City Buildings Exterior Improvement Fund

Project CPB026 · Public Works

Also identified in the budget as “City Buildings (Major)” (project code CPB026).

Cost & funding

Five-year planned cost

$700,000

Where the money comes from

Capital Project Funds$700,000

Specifically

General Capital Improvements Fund$700,000
General Fund money that has been transferred over for capital projects. Once here, it is used for capital work — not General Fund operating expenses.
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Source: FY 2026–27 CIP, Fund 501 appropriation.

Funding pathway

Funding pathway has not been mapped for this project. The project may be in a study phase, or its scope and cost are not yet defined.

Category: Capital Improvement Plan
Department: Public Works
Spent FY 2023–25: $481,552
Budgeted FY 2026: $300,000

›Budget labels for this project

Sources: City of Menlo Park OpenGov CIP detail, project code CPB026; resident-facing name shown here is “City Buildings Exterior Improvement Fund”. The OpenGov summary label is “City Buildings (Major)”. Budget worksheet labeled “Building Exterior Improvement Fund”.

$700K

Planned spending, FY 2027–31

The City has not published a total lifetime cost estimate for this project, so there is no funding gap to show. The figure above is what the five-year plan budgets.

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The funding gap is the estimated lifetime cost minus all funding that has not been lost, added up from the funding sources listed below. Year-by-year figures come from the City's adopted five-year capital plan.

Who is paying

Funding sources

The City has not recorded specific outside funding sources for this project. Projects can still be paid for from general capital funds even when no individual grant or source is listed here.

No funding sources are recorded for this project yet.

Spending

Spending by year

Past years are recorded actuals from the City's general ledger. FY 2026 is the adopted current-year budget. FY 2027 through FY 2031 is what the five-year Capital Improvement Plan proposes to spend.

FY 25$481,552

FY 26$300,000

FY 27$300,000

FY 28$200,000

FY 30$200,000

Spent Current year (adopted) Planned

›Where the money went, line by line

Year	Fund	Category	Amount
FY 25	Capital Project Funds	Fixed Assets & Capital Outlay	$436,200
FY 25	Capital Project Funds	Salaries and Wages	$32,298
FY 25	Capital Project Funds	Fringe Benefits	$8,000
FY 25	Capital Project Funds	Services	$4,827
FY 25	Capital Project Funds	Operating Expenses	$226
FY 26	Capital Project Funds	Fixed Assets & Capital Outlay	$300,000

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Past years are summed from gl_transactions for this project. FY 2026 is the adopted current-year budget for the project. FY 2027 through FY 2031 is what the City's adopted five-year CIP proposes to spend, taken from cip_projects.

How decisions were made

Council actions

No Council actions are linked to CPB026 yet. As decisions tied to this project are added to the database, they will appear here.