Platteville Looks At Wish List of Infrastructure Items

City of Platteville leaders are going through a wish list of more than $60 million worth of infrastructure projects to determine which projects the city can afford to finance over the next five years. Those items include a new fire station, street projects and wastewater treatment plant refurbishments, but even with an influx of millions of dollars in federal aid and borrowing, the city cannot reasonably expect to finance all the items. In the coming months, officials will develop the city’s 2022 budget, which will draw from the items in the infrastructure plan, spanning the years 2022 through 2026. Those not undertaken for lack of money will be considered in the following years. City staff tentatively have allocated $13 million in 2024 to the Platteville Fire Department to finance the construction of a new fire  station. The city recently acquired for $1 a potential site from the Platteville School District at O.E. Gray Community Learning Center.