Projects

This is not a “major projects” shortlist. It is every row the city prints in its capital project table — all 193 of them, down to $20,000 — read from the budget book’s own Capital Improvement Program chapter. Only 56 of those rows carry money appropriated for 2026; the other 137 are projects still holding unspent money from earlier years, and the table says which is which. Every department total, every fund total and the chapter’s own grand total reconcile to the city’s printed figures, in all eight of its columns, before a row of it appears here.

What the project table covers, fund by fund

Every fund with capital money in 2026, and whether the city publishes its projects one by one. The two funds Aurora Water runs are the exclusion, and together they are most of the program. These are capital appropriations only — the dashboard’s $100 receipt prints the same two funds’ whole budgets, operating and capital together, which are much larger figures for the same names.

The excluded majority, in the categories the city publishes

Aurora Water’s capital money, as the capital summary prints it: 9 categories, with no project names and no project numbers. This is the part the table further down leaves out, and it is here so that the gap has a size and a shape rather than only a name. These rows are not projects and this section never calls them projects.

Some of this is published project by project elsewhere in the same chapter, and is not read here yet. The book carries “Non-Routine Project Pages” — a page per project, with a description, a location and its own money columns — and Aurora Water projects are among them. They are a subset by the publisher’s own name for them, and this ledger has not reconciled them, so no figure from them appears here. The nine categories above remain the only complete account the city publishes of this money.

Every project the city publishes

The table opens in the city’s own order, which groups projects by fund and department rather than by size — the city publishes no ranking, so none is the default. You can sort it any way you like. Two different quantities sit side by side and are never added. The 2026 appropriation is money Council appropriated for this year. The carried-forward column is, in the book’s own words, “Prior years’ unspent appropriation as of December 31, 2024” — money appropriated in earlier years and not yet spent, which is why a project can show nothing for 2026 and still be live. The city also prints four later years; those are plans, not appropriations, and no figure from them appears here. Each project name opens that row’s own page.

The three quantities on that table, and why they are never added