Fort Collins projects · 2026
Projects
The capital project offers the City of Fort Collins publishes in its adopted 2025-2026 budget, with the amount offered in each year, and what the city itself says that figure is and is not. Below them are the State of Colorado’s own projects in the city, a different government’s money, kept apart. Each project opens its own page.
Capital projects
FACTCapital project offers, 2026 FACT
$15.5M
Exactly $15,486,119. The city’s own TOTAL CAPITAL PROJECTS line, as adopted, across five outcomes and seven funds. This is not the city’s capital budget — it is the sum of the individual capital projects the city funded and listed.
All capital in the 2026 budget FACT
$63.7M
The Capital line of the city’s own Total and Net City Budget table, as adopted. The city prints this one in millions, so this page does too — a figure to the dollar would claim a precision the publisher does not offer.
Projects listed, 2026 and 2025 CALC
22
Rows in the city’s own capital schedule, counted. No publisher states this number. Some are funded in one year of the two and some in both, so it is a count of projects rather than of fundings.
Spent so far, by project NOT PUBLISHED
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The city publishes no spending by project. This schedule carries one column per year per project, the amount offered: no spend to date, no encumbrance, no prior-year actual against a named project. An offer is money assigned, not money spent. No estimate is offered, because a plausible one would be indistinguishable from a published figure.
What the city says about this figure
Fort Collins does not leave a reader to discover the gap between these two numbers. It states it, in two places, in its own words. Both sentences are quoted below exactly as printed, and this page checks on every build that the budget book still carries them — a caveat a reader is relying on may not quietly outlive its source.
In the budget book, above the Capital Projects Summary schedule
“This amount reflects individual funded capital project offers, not the total amount of capital included in the budget.”
In the budget book, the footnote to the Total and Net City Budget table
“Capital in this table includes all capital-related items, which will be significantly greater than the sum of Capital Project offers.”
Three capital figures on this page, and what each one counts
This page names capital money three times, and the three measure different things on two different bases. None of them is a correction of another, and no two of them are ever added or subtracted — the difference between the offers and all capital is a figure the city does not publish, so this page does not compose one.
| Figure | Stage | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Capital improvement funds | 2026, as amended | $10,131,161 |
| A fund class in the appropriation ordinance — money appropriated to the city’s capital improvement funds. It is a row of the dashboard’s $100 receipt, not a list of projects. | ||
| Capital project offers | 2026, as adopted | $15,486,119 |
| The projects themselves, listed one by one below. They draw on seven different funds, so this is not a subset of the row above and not a superset of it either. | ||
| All capital in the budget | 2026, as adopted | $63.7M |
| Every capital-related item in the budget, in the city’s own words. This is the figure the two quoted sentences above are about. | ||
How much of the capital in the budget is listed as a project CALC
24.3% — $15,486,119 of capital project offers over the $63.7M of capital the city’s own table reports for 2026. The divisor is printed to the nearest $0.1M, so this share is good to about a twentieth of a point and is stated to one decimal. The remainder is not shown as a figure: the city publishes no project-by-project account of the capital its offer schedule does not list, and subtracting one of these from the other would put a number on this page that no publisher states.
Every capital project the city lists
In the city’s own order and under its own outcome headings, with the city’s own offer number on every row — that number is the one thing here a reader can look up in the budget book. A blank means the project was not funded in that year, which is different from being funded at zero.
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What the offers add up to, by outcome
The city’s own printed subtotal for each outcome and its total for all of them, in each year. Each is the sum of the offers above it.
| Outcome | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Total, Culture and Recreation | $21,432,984 | $7,196,119 |
| Total, Economic Health | $1,775,000 | $1,775,000 |
| Total, Environmental Health | $6,715,000 | $1,315,000 |
| Total, Safe Community | $5,900,000 | $5,000,000 |
| Total, Transportation and Mobility | $7,453,371 | $200,000 |
| Total capital projects | $43,276,355 | $15,486,119 |
The city’s own split: utilities and everything else
The city prints this division under its own schedule, so it is quoted rather than derived. Fort Collins runs its own electric, water, wastewater and stormwater utilities, and in a given year most of the listed capital can be theirs.
| Service area | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Utilities | $11,890,000 | $8,090,000 |
| All other service areas | $31,386,355 | $7,396,119 |
Which funds pay for it
The same money, cut the other way. The city publishes its capital offers twice — once by outcome and once by fund — and the two presentations must agree, outcome for outcome and year for year, before a row of either appears here. A fund with no row in a year funded no capital project offer that year.
| Fund | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| 2050 Tax Parks Rec Transit OCF | $1,680,000 | — |
| Capital Expansion Fund | $2,000 | $2,000 |
| Capital Projects Fund | $24,522,257 | $451,819 |
| Conservation Trust Fund | $3,069,791 | $2,478,459 |
| General Fund | $114,194 | $117,912 |
| Light & Power Fund | $2,990,000 | $3,090,000 |
| Neighborhood Parkland Fund | $1,998,113 | $4,345,929 |
| Stormwater Fund | $1,400,000 | $5,000,000 |
| Wastewater Fund | $5,250,000 | — |
| Water Fund | $2,250,000 | — |
| Total citywide capital | $43,276,355 | $15,486,119 |
Where these figures come from, and what they leave out
The 2025-2026 Adopted Budget, published by the City of Fort Collins and named on the methodology page. The two schedules are read by column position, not by reading order — one project is funded in the first year only and another in the second only, and flattened each is a single number on a line with nothing to say which year it belongs to. The reading is proved before it is published: every project adds to its outcome’s printed subtotal, the subtotals add to the city’s printed total, every fund row adds to its own printed total, and the two presentations of the same money agree with each other. Two things this schedule does not show. It is the adopted book, so it does not carry capital added since — 2026 was amended before the year began, and that ordinance is the basis of the dashboard’s $100 receipt. And the city notes that grants are not typically in its budget at all. Neither gap is estimated here.
State projects in Fort Collins
FACT| Project | State department | Where | What happened to the money | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clark Building Renovation and Addition | Colorado State University | Colorado State University | Appropriated | $25,798,175 |
| CSU Clark Building renovation & addition ph 4/4 | IHE | Colorado State University | Requested, recommended | $25,798,175 |
| CSU Physiology Building (CR) | IHE | Colorado State University | Requested, not recommended | $13,500,825 |
| CSU Plant Sciences Building (CR) | IHE | Colorado State University | Requested, not recommended | $11,467,163 |
| CSU District heating plant sustainability upgrade (CR) | IHE | Colorado State University | Requested, not recommended | $10,375,282 |
| Replace C Basin Sanitary Sewer Outfall | Colorado State University | Colorado State University | Appropriated | $3,028,814 |
| Roof Replacement, Johnson Hall | Colorado State University | Colorado State University | Appropriated | $1,645,987 |
| NESB Chilled Water Connection | Colorado State University | Colorado State University | Appropriated | $1,445,479 |
| ARDEC Kerbel Well Redrill | Colorado State University | Colorado State University | Appropriated | $463,390 |
| Emergency Generator, HVAC Replacements, Restroom Remodel at Fort Collins Readiness Center | Department of Military and Veterans Affairs | Fort Collins Readiness Center | Appropriated | $644,200 |
The three quantities on that table, and why they are never added
One project can appear twice, and here it does. Clark Building Renovation and Addition and CSU Clark Building renovation & addition ph 4/4 are the same work at $25,798,175, once as money the legislature appropriated and once as the request behind it. Two identical figures a few rows apart are not a project counted twice — they are one project on two bases, which is the whole reason the totals below are kept apart.| Quantity | What it is | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Appropriated | Money the legislature appropriated for this project in the enacted capital schedule. | $33,026,045 |
| Requested, recommended | A capital request the Capital Development Committee recommended. Nobody has appropriated it. | $25,798,175 |
| Requested, not recommended | A capital request the committee did not recommend. Nobody has appropriated it, and it is shown because what a state declines to fund is as telling as what it builds. | $35,343,270 |
Neither document says where these projects are, so we do
The enacted capital schedule and the committee’s figure-setting document name an institution or a facility and publish no address, no county and no coordinate. Placing them is our claim, made once and graded: A where the document names the town itself, B where it names a facility whose location is a matter of public record but is not in the document. This section filters on the town, not the county — a county is not a city, and a county-keyed filter would put a neighboring town’s project under this city’s name.
The 2 sites this table draws on, and why each one is placed there
- Colorado State University · grade B — Main campus at Fort Collins, Larimer County.
- Fort Collins Readiness Center · grade A — The line item names Fort Collins, which is in Larimer County.