The Bossier City Council has approved the city’s five-year road map for big-ticket capital projects.
The five-year capital project plan is a charter-mandated outline for anticipated spending on transportation, engineering, parks, water infrastructure and other construction and capital purchases. This year’s plan, spanning 2026-2030, anticipates more than $188 million in capital spending, a nearly 45% increase from last year’s anticipation of just less than $130 million.
It’s important to note that these capital project plans are more guidelines than anything. It isn’t a funding appropriation. It’s a statement of projects that are on the city’s radar in one way or another — they may range from conceptual ideas to projects for which the city has pursued state support to projects that are actively underway. It also includes potential general capital projects, like assorted citywide street improvements…