P-16-02Climate Resilience, Smart Growth & Water Protection · claim-level record
Upgrade stormwater drainage
Voters could reasonably understand this as a mayoral commitment to upgrade stormwater drainage during the next administration.
- Authority
- direct
- Confidence
- limited
- Material cost
- Yes
- Last reviewed
- 2026-07-15
The claim
upgrading stormwater drainage systems
What voters are likely to hear
Voters could reasonably understand this as a mayoral commitment to upgrade stormwater drainage during the next administration.
What the mayor actually controls
- Authority level
- direct
- City Hall controls
- Stormwater utility, comprehensive plan, capital projects, sewer infrastructure
- City Hall does not control
- City Council appropriations, independent partners, and state or federal law remain outside unilateral mayoral control.
What implementation requires
- A written implementation scope and public deadline
- Mayoral direction and departmental workplan
- City Council appropriation or a documented outside funding award
- Staffing, procurement, and public performance reporting
What it would cost
Cost-estimation limitation
No defensible claim-level estimate can be calculated from the available record because the campaign does not specify eligibility, service volume, unit cost, capital inventory, cost sharing, or implementation scale.
- Campaign-identified funding
- None identified for this claim
- Funding still unidentified
- Recurring city appropriation, outside award, partner contribution, or offsetting reduction sufficient for the selected scale
What already exists
What Eskamani has previously done
People's Platform campaign-promise inventory
The campaign published a 28-section platform that this project has separated into 294 independently testable promise records.
The strongest evidence
Evidence supporting the finding
The campaign’s primary platform page publishes this commitment in the cited section.
Evidence that qualifies the finding
The cited governing or program record qualifies unilateral mayoral authority, existing-program overlap, or the delivery path.
The unresolved problem
The campaign does not identify a claim-level deadline, eligible population, delivery owner, recurring appropriation, staffing plan, or measurable completion standard.
The accountability question
For "Upgrade stormwater drainage," what is the eligibility or scope, deadline, annual city cost, outside-approval sequence, and public completion measure?