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Capital Investment Program (CIP) Overview

Los Angeles’ infrastructure is fundamental to the City’s health, quality of life, economic development, and resilience to climate change. We must ensure LA's public space is safe, clean, accessible, resilient, well maintained, and world-class. The way we plan, deliver, and maintain our streets and parks is costly and inefficient, and is not keeping pace with a growing backlog of needs. 

Departments responsible for our public space often have inconsistent priorities, policy goals, communication methods, software, and planning systems that are not well-equipped to achieve a common goal. 

Executive Directive No. 9 (ED9) addresses this thru implementation of 5 goals that culminate in a CIP for LA:

ED9 Goals

  • Establish Capital Planning Steering Committee (CPSC)
  • Adopt CPSC charter, reform City department collaboration
  • Codify external engagement strategy

  • Determine what we need to properly fund public spaces
  • Analyze asset type by asset type what is needed to reduce maintenance & project delivery backlogs
  • Develop proposals to fund assets, projects, and maintenance

  • Reduce existing meetings and working groups
  • Improve accountability & efficiency
  • Make quicker decisions with empowered departments

  • Account for what we own, where it is, and its condition
  • Deploy crews efficiently to maintain City
  • Use asset management system to write a CIP

  • Centralize all projects deploy shared project mgmt. systems
  • Score projects, write/adopt plan to achieve policy goals
  • Invest in long-range savings, projects of highest need

For more detail, please follow this link for some press coverage on Executive Directive 9.

City Buildings During Sunset
Capital Planning Steering Committee (CPSC)
Man Performing on Skate Park
External Engagement
LACMA light installation photographed from below at night
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