A project by Laura Melahn, Candidate for Menlo Park District 4 City Council
Water
Funded FY27–31

Water System Improvements

Project CPW017 · Public Works

Cost & funding
Five-year planned cost
$1,000,000
Where the money comes from
  • Enterprise Funds$1,000,000
Specifically
  • Water Capital Improvements Fund$1,000,000

    Water rate revenue that pays for water utility capital projects. Cannot fund non-water work.

    What is this fund?

Source: FY 2026–27 CIP, Fund 600 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
$76,203
Budgeted FY 2026
$600,000
Budget labels for this project

Sources: City of Menlo Park OpenGov CIP detail, project code CPW017; resident-facing name shown here is “Water System Improvements”.

$1M
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 24$22,327
FY 25$53,876
FY 26$600,000
FY 28$500,000
FY 30$500,000
Spent Current year (adopted) Planned
Where the money went, line by line
YearFundCategoryAmount
FY 24Enterprise FundsServices$15,788
FY 24Enterprise FundsSalaries and Wages$5,086
FY 24Enterprise FundsFringe Benefits$1,454
FY 25Enterprise FundsFixed Assets & Capital Outlay$36,173
FY 25Enterprise FundsSalaries and Wages$14,292
FY 25Enterprise FundsFringe Benefits$3,411
FY 26Enterprise FundsFixed Assets & Capital Outlay$600,000
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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 CPW017 yet. As decisions tied to this project are added to the database, they will appear here.