The firehouse on Parish Street on Meetinghouse Hill, home to the Boston Fire Department’s Engine 17, will get a $13 million overhaul, thanks to the new city budget that was approved last month by Mayor Martin Walsh and the City Council.

The $2.86 billion budget includes infrastructure-based capital improvement projects that will be pursued over the next five years, according to the mayor’s press office. In addition to the work at the Parish Street station, the list of projects for Dorchester includes a $500,000 renovation to Ronan Park’s baseball field, $2.4 million to renovate McConnell Park, $2.3 million to upgrade access to the Strand Theatre, $1.4 million for accessibility improvements at the Henderson Inclusion Upper School, $3.5 million to redesign and reconstruct the Uphams Corner intersection at Columbia Road and Dudley and Stoughton streets, and $500,000 for Mt. Vernon Street’s preliminary redesign.

The budget also includes funds to reinstate the police cadet program and money for a position in the fire department that will work on diversity issues.

This fiscal year introduces brings the school system’s first-ever budget of more than $1 billion. Put at $1.014 billion, the documents carries an additional $39 million for a 100-seat pre-K expansion, weighted student funding provided directly to schools, and money for an extended learning time initiative that extends classroom time.
The overall budget contains funding for new affordable housing for seniors, drug-overdose prevention and needle clean-up, expansion of the popular “hokey” street-cleaning program into the spring and fall, and a re-design of the city’s website.

Capital plans are approved in conjunction with the city’s yearly operating budget and allow the city to identify long-term goals and investments in infrastructure. Projects in the capital plan are implemented over a multi-year period and undergo multiple phases, including study, design, and construction/implementation.