“Our revenues budgeted are really conservative,” Johnson told city council at its most recent meeting.
Revenues for 2025 are projected at $26.5 million, with expenses at $23.7 million, resulting in an anticipated surplus of nearly $2.8 million, according to the city’s 2025 operating budget, which was approved Dec. 3.
That will allow Miamisburg to set aside roughly $3.3 million for capital investments, which will help the city toward its 2025 capital budget of $33.5 million.
Those funds will be part of a 5-year capital improvement plan, or CIP, which outlines significant capital expenses and the planned order for carrying out their construction.
“The goals of the CIP ... (have) been to protect the health, safety, and ... economic development, which is important to us (for) capital projects that promote and allow for expansion of economic development activities and also those that affect quality of life for our residents,” Johnson said.
The plan also positions the city to evaluate benefits and opportunity, Johnson said.
“Opportunity cost helps us align our priorities with our vision and mission,” he said. “Our residents that participated in this current strategic planning process that we’re doing, we really are taking that information and rolling that into budget decisions and budget priorities.
“It‘s important, and I’m looking forward in the next coming years, as we update that, to gauge more what the public is telling us that they’d like to see.”
Johnson said of the $33.5 million capital budget for construction and maintenance, approximately $25 million will go toward construction.
Upcoming capital improvement projects are based on the priorities given to city officials by Miamisburg residents and city council members, Johnson said.
A breakdown of the “significant” projects the city will be working on in 2025 includes extensive renovations and additions to Sycamore Trails Park.
City officials believe the revamp to Sycamore Trails, which Johnson said is a “signature park” in the community, will have the same impact on Miamisburg that the Riverfront Park renovation has had on its downtown, he said.
The revamp to Sycamore Trails Park is expected to wrap up in 2025, city officials said.
Also in 2025, the city will go out for bid on a project that will be designed to make major changes to Sycamore Trails Aquatic Center. Miamisburg announced in November 2023 that it canceled the 2024 swimming season at the aquatic center due to issues with the piping infrastructure. A planned $10 million-plus revamp aims to make it a ‘destination amenity.”
Both the park and aquatic center projects are important to Miamisburg “because they are community-wide impacts,” according to Miamisburg spokesman Ken Jarosik, who said residents rated both as their top-visited parks in the community.
Capital investments for 2025 also include the replacement of the King Richard Transmission Main, which represents the first of the larger-scale utility replacement projects in the city. Johnson said the transmission main is 50 years old and in need of replacement “because of the impact of the corrosive soils.”
Also among capital investments for 2025 are yet-to-determined short-term enhancements to Miamisburg Police Department and building two new water production wells to provide increased water capacity for future development.
Projected CIP spending for 2026 is expected to be nearly $18.7 million, about 44.3% less than 2025′s estimated CIP spending, city documents show.
Johnson said years three through five — 2027, 2028 and 2029 — will become more clear once Miamisburg completes a sewer master plan and a facilities master plan, officials said. As of now, they are projected to be $11.9 million for 2027, $7.2 million for 2028 and $9.4 million for 2029.
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