Assistant City Manager Hugh Saxon rattled off a list of city building projects during Monday’s Decatur City Commission meeting.

City Hall?  Done.

Downtown MARTA station renovations? Also done.

Saxon said in total the city has invested about $90 million in brick and mortar projects in the last 10 years, jobs that transformed the city’s downtown. The city borrowed heavily to pay for it all, but Saxon said the only remaining projects involve infrastructure improvements and finishing up the Beacon Municipal Center, which dwarfed the other projects with its $38 million budget. City Schools of Decatur recently held its first board meeting at the facility.

“We developed a goal to rebuild or renovate all of the major public facilities by the end of 2014,” Saxon told commissioners.

There are a handful of smaller projects on the horizon.

Bids for the much-delayed Oakhurst Streetscape project, which has a $2.5 million budget, are due by Aug. 5. That project is receiving federal funding.

There’s also Phase V of the city’s downtown streetscape project, with a $2.25 million budget. The project description says, “The Phase V Downtown Decatur Streetscape project area includes the south side of East Trinity Place from North McDonough Street to Church Street, both sides of East Trinity Place from Church Street to just past the Fire Station, and Church Street from East Trinity Place south to East Howard Avenue. The purpose of the project is to improve accessibility and safety for pedestrians and to reduce conflicts between pedestrians and motorists.” That project also is getting federal money.

It’s currently awaiting a notice of bid authorization, according to Saxon.

Projects that are in-design include a $1.9 million for improving the railroad crossing at Candler and McDonough Streets, $2.12 million for North McDonough Streetscape improvements and a $4.2 million pedestrian safety and bike lanes project on Clairemont-Commerce and Church Street.

There are also several projects that Saxon says the city needs, like storm drain improvements, renovating McKoy Park and adding features to the Decatur Cemetery. But even if you totaled up the projects that are in the works and still just a pipe dream, they wouldn’t come anywhere close to what the city has spent over the last 10 years.

Saxon said some of the improvements were long overdue. He recalled how hot the city commission’s meeting room used to get in the summers and how the building would shake when there was a MARTA bus at the corner.

Commissioner Scott Drake said when the city’s building boom began, many of its buildings looked much like they did in the 70’s when he was growing up. Drake is the son of former Decatur Mayor Walt Drake.

He said city hall was “an interesting building” back then.

“They said, ‘It’s time to put some momentum behind this’ and they did start looking at every facility,” Drake said.

Commissioner Fred Boykin said the building projects knocked out every major improvement the city wanted.

“I’m impressed that over a decade we’ve been able to refurbish and redo all these buildings and that pretty much should take care of things for the long term,” Boykin said.

He added that residents are getting a value for their tax dollar, and the buildings should last at least 50 years.

“We gotta pay for it,” Boykin said. “I know some folks they’re upset that we’ve taken out long term debt to pay off all these buildings, but on the other hand, future users of the building will be help to pay it off.”