Each year, in conjunction with the City’s annual budgeting process, the Engineering Department prepares and presents a Work Program to City Council. Council reviews the projects, typically in February or March, and along with the public, provides input based on the approved Capital Improvements Program (CIP).

Funding sources include Capital Improvement Project Bonding, Road Use Tax, General Fund, Tax Increment Financing, Local Option Sales Tax, Storm Water Management and Sanitary Sewer Replacement.

Depending on available funding, the size of the Work Program varies widely from year to year. The Local Option Sales Tax affords the opportunity to complete a consistently larger Work Program, better enabling the City to maintain existing infrastructure and provide new systems associated with new development. This year, staff is challenged with an extensive program, including additional larger projects, and some smaller projects, to be constructed.

2024 Engineering Work Program 

2024 Engineering Work Program Project News

Throughout the year, information is continually updated regarding the Department's bid opportunities and construction project information. 

This guide is supported by Section 176.06 Standards for Design of Subdivisions of the Marion Code of Ordinance and guided by the City of Marion Comprehensive Plan. This document has been created to guide future development and identify the necessary right-of-way requirements for all streets as they are created within a plat, replatted within a new development or acquired by the City for street widening or reconstruction.

The City of Marion Street and Right-of-Way Guide is established by resolution and may be amended from time to time by the City Council.  

City of Marion Major Streets Guide and Map 

The Engineering Department provides a newsletter regarding project activity and progress. The newsletter is updated weekly during the peak construction season (approx. May - October). To receive this newsletter directly in your inbox, send us an email.

Engineering Project Newsletter

This policy provides aesthetic requirements and other specifications and reasonable conditions that small wireless facilities installed within the public ROW must meet prior to installation and following installation within the City. 

Small Wireless Facility Design and Review Guideline Policy

In 2019, an evaluation of the Indian Creek Basin sanitary sewer network was completed. Results and discussion of the 2019 Study are presented in Technical Memorandum 5: Capacity Analysis. The hydraulic model refinement and calibration presented in this Technical Memorandum (TM) is intended to provide a detailed and accurate evaluation of the remainder of the City’s sanitary sewer system, including the Christopher & Dry Run Creek, Lower Indian Creek, and Squaw Creek Basins. An InfoWorks ICM hydraulic model was used to simulate several different existing and future development scenarios, identify sewer deficiencies for each scenario, estimate opinion of probable costs to improve the sewer network and develop qualitative recommendations. 

2020 Sanitary Sewer Study