The Capital Improvement Program (CIP) is a planning document that identifies capital projects in the next
five-year horizon for elected officials, citizens, and staff. The first year of the CIP will be the basis for
developing the capital portion of the forthcoming City Budget for 2009-2010. Once a project appears in
the first year of the CIP and makes it into the budget, it does not appear again in the CIP because the
project has moved beyond the planning phase. [From the document]
