FY 25 Harford County Approved Capital Budget

CAPITAL PROJECTS THAT IMPACT THE OPERATING BUDGET

Total Project Cost Including Outyears Operating Budget Impact

FY 25 Budget Appropriation

Project Title/Description

GENERAL PROJECTS:

Broadband Infrastructure

$11,000,000 $43,820,000 Expansion of HMAN footprint for the rural

This project will provide funding to expand the HMAN backbone and lateral dark fiber to allow an internet service provider to build infrastructure to provide internet service availability to under and unserved areas of the rural county.

broadband project will increase maintenance

costs.

CONVERGE Innovation Center

$12,500,000 $12,500,000 Increase of maintenance costs for the upkeep

This project is to establish a state-of-the-art pilot-scale

of the building and property.

biomanufacturing wing at the CONVERGE Innovation Center. The project will renovate unused space in the existing CONVERGE Innovation Center and repurpose it as the biomanufacturing wing.

Efficiency Capital Investment Projects

$250,000

$2,535,400 Efficiency projects have a potential

This project will implement projects that will increase efficiency in county operations by reducing costs and improving the County's

cost savings on the operating budget by reducing expenditures such as energy costs, operational expenses, etc.

environmental footprint.

$1,000,000 $29,965,000 Replacement of vehicles and equipment results

Fleet Replacement

This project provides funds for replacement of essential vehicles and equipment that have become inefficient, unreliable or averaging

in cost savings in fuel, repair and maintenance by replacing inefficient pieces of fleet with modernized fuel and maintenance efficient models. By replacing older units this results in little to no downtime on the unit, availability of unit increases; and therefore our Dept. of Emergency Services, Highways, and Water and Sewer are able to perform their job duties around the County.

high mileage.

$4,000,000 $32,280,000 The annual operating maintenance costs of

Harford County Metro Area Network (HMAN)

This project is to refresh the current County network infrastructure

the County's HMAN network is estimated to

and build additional sites where needed.

be $400,000.

$0

$10,334,900 Cost of replacement, renovation, and repairs

Courthouse Building Repairs

This project funds the replacement, renovation, and repairs of courthouse building systems (site, roofing, structural, exterior, interior, mechanical, etc.)

is approximately $4,000/year.

PUBLIC SAFETY PROJECTS:

Mobile/Portable Radio System Upgrade

$5,000,000 $30,000,000 Motorola contract will increase annually

This project will eliminate separate radio systems and create a countywide radio system to include law enforcement,

by 2% to 4%. The current contract cost

is $1,619,379.

public safety and public service.

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