Utilities Department accounts for more than half of Bullhead City’s capital improvement requests (May 20, 2025)
BULLHEAD CITY — The Bullhead City Council didn’t dive too deeply into more than $56 million in capital improvement requests presented by staff at a recent budget workshop. That’s because the council already has been swimming through most of those expensive waters for the last year.
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A whopping $32 million of the capital requests come from the city’s utilities department — water and wastewater — with nine projects costing $1 million or more in the utilities list of 18 separate planned expenditures aimed at repairing, maintaining, and improving the city water and sewer systems. And $19 million of that is for work at the Section 10 wastewater treatment plant near the Colorado River Nature Center in southern Bullhead City. Much of that work already has been authorized.
The utilities list was the last to be presented in the budget workshop but one that council members probably are most familiar with.
We have done so many workshops that I’m sure that you are all dreaming about sewer lines and sewer projects and water projects,
Cotter said as council members responded with a variety of nods and smirks. It’s a big book of business for us. It’s super important. It’s a big point of our budget.
While the city’s massive 654-page budget book includes a breakdown on each project, Utilities Director Mark Clark gave a quick rundown — he started describing the projects one by one but, at the urging of Mayor Steve D’Amico, who noted that council was very familiar with most of them, reduced that description to a sentence each with the caveat that council members could ask questions to probe deeper. None did.
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Source: Bill McMillen, Mohave Valley Daily News, mohavedailynews.com/news/utilities-department-accounts-for-more-than-half-of-bullhead-citys-capital-improvement-requests/article_93e85bbb-a687-4d73-9b09-30b634e88566.html