Nashville Mayor Karl Dean is reprioritizing the building projects he wants to get started this year. The mayor pulled his capital budget plan days after he submitted it to the Metro Council in late April.
The mayor took his building plan off the table to gauge the financial impact of May’s historic flooding, which did $250 million in damage to city infrastructure.
In a typical year, the Metro Council would be voting on a capital budget right now. Dean says he’s still a few months away from making a recommendation, but he says there will be a building plan.
“There’s a lot of things I think are important. I think the 28th Ave. connector that would connect west Nashville and north Nashville, connect Vanderbilt, Belmont and Lipscomb to TSU, Fisk and Meharry is a project that means a lot to me.”
Last year’s capital budget funded half a million dollars in planning expenses for the 28th Avenue connector, which spans railroad tracks along Charlotte Avenue.
At $160 million, Dean’s original building plan was already smaller than years past. It did include a new headquarters for the Metro Health Department and two new police precincts.
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