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Streets and Sidewalks
Funded FY27–31

Sidewalk Repair Program

Project CPS011 · Public Works

Cost & funding
Five-year planned cost
$3,250,000
Where the money comes from
  • Special Revenue Funds$3,250,000
Specifically
  • Highway Users Tax (Gas Tax)$1,250,000

    The City's share of the state gas tax. Restricted to street and road work.

  • Sidewalk Assessment$2,000,000

    Assessments collected for sidewalk work. Restricted to sidewalks.

Source: FY 2026–27 CIP, Funds 357, 359 appropriation.

Funding pathway
Restricted local revenueMechanism in place

Sidewalk repair primarily gas-tax funded with Measure W and General Fund supplements. Recurring program.

Category
Capital Improvement Plan
Department
Public Works
Spent FY 2023–25
$1,249,411
Budgeted FY 2026
$600,000
Estimated lifetime cost
$3,250,000
Budget labels for this project

Sources: City of Menlo Park OpenGov CIP detail, project code CPS011; resident-facing name shown here is “Sidewalk Repair Program”.

$3.3M
Funding gap
Estimated lifetime cost $3,250,000
Estimated lifetime cost
$3,250,000
Secured (awarded, received, allocated)
Amount not yet determined
Committed, not yet executed
$0
Pending application
$0
Anticipated (not yet applied for)
$0
Funding gap (not yet covered)
$3,250,000
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The lifetime cost estimate is $3,250,000, from 5-year CIP allocation (~$650K/year) (May 30, 2026). Source: https://www.menlopark.gov/Government/Departments/Public-Works/Maintenance-Division/Sidewalk-repair-program. 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

Each source carries its own status and citation. Expand a row to see the conditions, dates, and source document. “Ongoing” sources are recurring formula funds; sources still being pursued show no dollar amount.

General Capital Fund — On-Call Concrete Repair Contract (Cato's)Allocated
City of Menlo Park (city) · construction

Conditions: Sidewalk portion of 3-year on-call contract.

~$600K/yr of the $1.02M annual contract. Multi-year program; this row covers the operational funding mechanism.

Awarded June 1, 2024
Source: Staff Report #25-189-CC (Dec 2025) referencing the June 2024 Cato's contract
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 23$549,980
FY 24$100,000
FY 25$599,431
FY 26$600,000
FY 27$650,000
FY 28$650,000
FY 29$650,000
FY 30$650,000
FY 31$650,000
Spent Current year (adopted) Planned
Where the money went, line by line
YearFundCategoryAmount
FY 23Special Revenue FundsFixed Assets & Capital Outlay$300,000
FY 23Capital Project FundsFixed Assets & Capital Outlay$249,980
FY 24Capital Project FundsFixed Assets & Capital Outlay$100,000
FY 25Special Revenue FundsFixed Assets & Capital Outlay$349,431
FY 25Capital Project FundsFixed Assets & Capital Outlay$250,000
FY 26Special Revenue FundsFixed Assets & Capital Outlay$350,000
FY 26Capital Project FundsFixed Assets & Capital Outlay$250,000
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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 CPS011 yet. As decisions tied to this project are added to the database, they will appear here.

Plan history

How this project changed between plans

The City publishes a new five-year capital plan each year. Here is how this project's five-year total moved from the FY 2025-30 Adopted plan to the FY 2026-31 Proposed plan.

FY 2025-30 Adopted
$3,011,745
FY 2026-31 Proposed
$3,850,000
Change
↑ $838,255

“Five-year total” is every expense line for this project in each plan (carryover estimate plus new money). The two plans cover different five-year windows, so part of a change can be the window shifting by a year.

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Each figure is the sum of this project's expense lines in that plan snapshot (view v_cip_plan_comparison, from cip_plan_lines). Flagged questions come from cip_plan_clarifications.