Spending $22.1 million on Town capital projects for 6 years mulled: BOMA
Town of Farragut is looking at spending about $22.1 million in the next six years on capital projects, according to budget data released during recent Board of Mayor and Aldermen budget workshops.
That amount does not include possible projects that are not yet funded.
“The Capital Investment Program is an annually adopted six-year plan of proposed expenditures for capital projects and the means of financing them,” Town administrator David Smoak said during a recent workshop.
“Typically capital projects are improvements over $25,000 and involve multi-year programming,” he explained. “The Municipal Budget Law of 1982 requires each municipality to adopt an annual operating budget by ordinance (SEE Tennessee Code Annotated 6-56-201). If a city is undertaking capital improvements, a capital budget is required to be adopted with the annual operating budget.”
The CIP budget is broken down into greenways and general government projects, parks, engineering (roads) and other projects.
In the general capital projects, Smoak said this year’s proposed budget shows $1.2 million in land acquisition for projects, with no money for FY 2025 or FY 2026, but $300,000 starting each year in 2027 through 2030.
Also in general government capital projects, $635,000 was set aside for a Kingston Pike pedestrian underpass at North Fork Turkey Creek; a sidewalk project at Sonja Drive and Admiral Road for $1.25 million in 2025; $500,000 to renovate Campbell Station Inn’s interior starting in 2025; constructing a Red Mill Dam Trailhead budgeted in 2026; an Everett Road greenway connection budgeted in 2027 for $70,000.
The Parks and Recreation CIP projects include $750,000 to build pickleball courts at Mayor Bob Leonard Park; MBLP Field 1 and 2 turf replacement for $1.841 million in 2025 but has grant funding to offset that cost; MBLP walk trail and ADA repair/repaving budgeted in 2025 for $180,000 but will have some grant funding as well; McFee Park’s dog park in Phase 5 for $465,336 but with grant funding; repair and updates to McFee Park splash pad, $50,000 in 2025 and $80,000 in 2028; sand volleyball complex reconstruction, $50,000 in 2026; fencing in Anchor Park, $175,000 in 2027; Anchor Park playground renovations, $300,000 in 2027; McFee Park tennis courts pavilion, $535,000 in 2027; MBLP trail lighting $125,000 in 2028; MBLP Field 3 turf replacement, $725,000 in 2028; and Mcfee Park tennis and basketball court resurfacing, $40,000 in 2028.
Engineering capital projects include $1.2 million in 2025 through 2029 budgets, but federal American Rescue Plan Act funding is budgeted for the Stormwater project; Boyd Station Road roundabout $760,000 budgeted I 2025; and other Boyd Station Road improvements, $465,000 in 2025 with the developer contributing another $150,000 for that project; Boyd Station Road Greenway, $40,000 budgeted in 2023 with the developer paying another $252,000; Union Road improvements, $1.17 million in 2025 with a state Local Surface Transportation Block Grant funding $4.6 million; Phase 2 of Virtue Road — from Brookmere to Boyd Station — $1.681,000 in 2025 (right-of-way) and 2027 (construction) and $6.7 million from state L-STBG funding; Turkey Creek Road/Greenway improvements, $500,000 for right-of-way and $2 million for construction in 2027; Watt Road roundabout, $850,000 in 2026;
More such projects include Evans Road improvements, $820,000 in 2029 and $730,000 in 2030.
During the April 3 workshop, Board members mulled over projects that had not even been budgeted yet. Among them are a greenway connection from Meadows to MccFee Road property, estimated at $220,000; a sidewalk on Herron Road, $1.4 million; renovations to Public Works facilities, with no cost estimated; the recently purchased McFee Road park property with no cost estimate; the Campbell Station Road/I-40 interchange, no cost estimate; Evans Road improvements, $820,000 in 2029 and $730,000 in 2030; Jamestowne Road improvements, $5.8 million; Municipal Center Drive expansion, $6.9 million; Boring Road improvements with no cost estimate; and Farragut fiber connectivity through the ARPA project, $2 million.
