Mayor’s office outlines Executive Directive 9 and a citywide capital investment program

Jeff Thompson, director of capital infrastructure for Mayor Karen Bass, told the committee that Executive Directive 9 (ED 9) establishes a multiyear transformation and a capital planning steering committee to centralize asset data and coordinate investments across Public Works bureaus, Transportation, Water and Power, Recreation and Parks, CAO and CLA.

Thompson said a capital investment program (CIP) differs from the CAO’s CTIP by documenting investment history, maintenance funding and asset-class forecasts—examples include pavement condition and park-asset reports—so policymakers can see liabilities and maintenance needs in one place. He gave Griffith Park Pool as an example of an asset that required expensive work because long-term planning and maintenance funding were insufficient.

The mayor’s office plans to build shared asset-management systems (OpenGov and Cartograph) integrated with the relaunched 311 Salesforce instance so work orders and project data flow into a common UPRS project-management system. Thompson proposed releasing a games-focused CIP draft in February, seeking about a month for council feedback and aiming to adopt that CIP in March; the mayor’s office expects to release a full citywide CIP by December 2026.

The presentation introduced a proposed 100-point scoring rubric—weighted by project type—with seven criteria including health and safety, connectivity, ADA accessibility, equity, historic preservation, sustainability/resiliency and monetary/liability reduction. Thompson said the draft will publish the scoring criteria first and not immediately score projects, allowing council review before projects are evaluated under the rubric.

Council members pressed for strong equity weighting and asked how new revenue streams might be identified; Thompson said the first priority is consolidating data to support future ballot measures or bonding decisions and to provide better evidence for voter outreach. The committee concluded the item with no further action required.