The public will get its first look at Mayor George Flaggs Jr.’s proposed 10-year, $55 million capital improvements master plan for the city at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at the City Hall Annex.

“This is the game-changer I’ve talked about what I thought we need to meet the challenges for this city for the next 10 years, and improve the economic opportunities for the city in the future,” he said.

Flaggs said the proposal tracks a list of capital improvements presented by the city’s department heads in 2014.

“None of this (the plan) is the board’s idea; all of it is the department heads’ ideas. It was about $500 million; I narrowed down to what we could afford, and that was $55 million. We prioritized it, and that’s what I’m going to make available.”

The department heads’ 2014 list included repairs and upgrades to the city’s wastewater treatment plant on Rifle Range Road and work to bring the city’s 111-year-old sewer collection system in compliance with the terms of a consent decree between the city and the Environmental Protection Agency signed in 2013 after it was determined the city allowed raw sewage to flow into the Mississippi River and other local streams.

The city is in its third year of assessing and mapping the sewer system, and beginning its second year of repairs and upgrades to the system.

Flaggs has also discussed building a second wastewater treatment plant in south Vicksburg.

Also included are further repairs to the city’s water treatment plant on Haining Road, which include replacing a water-softening unit, painting one building and its accessories and installing a rake system and pumps in the plant’s wash water tank. Work is already underway to upgrade the plant’s electrical system.