Attachment C – Capital Project Ranking Guidelines
General Fund CIP Requests (Ranking)
As with prior budgets, all General Fund CIP project requests will be ranked by the General Fund CIP Review Committee. The CIP committee will be comprised of the Department Head from each submitting department. The Department Head may choose to appoint someone to rank/attend on their behalf. The committee will use the following criteria when ranking projects:
Implementation of a Council priority
Support of City of Visalia General Plan
Resolution of a health and safety concern
Savings of City funds or avoidance of additional costs Promotion of efficient operations
The scale to be applied in the ranking of General Fund CIP projects is:
Level 1Ranking Definition
1 Items of highest importance
2 Useful, but of lower priority
3 Would provide improvements, but can wait
The following sub-rankings can be applied to level 1 rankings:
Sub-ranking Definition
A Health and safety or urgent need
B Highly desirable and useful
Level 2 Ranking Definition
+ / - Moves higher level rankings higher or lower
Projects beyond fiscal years 22/23 and 23/24 are typically not ranked as Council will only be approving appropriations for these years.