HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 04/27/2021 - MAKING AN INTERIM APPOINTMENT TO THE PLATTE RIVER Agenda Item 3
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AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY April 27, 2021
City Council
STAFF
Elizabeth Blythe, Senior Public Engagement Coordinator
Carrie Daggett, City Attorney
SUBJECT
Resolution 2021-050 Making an Interim Appointment to the Platte River Power Authority Board.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The purpose of this item is for Council to consider making an interim appointment to the Platte River Power
Authority Board until such time as the newly-elected Council makes its new board, committee and liaison
appointments.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends adoption of the Resolution.
BACKGROUND / DISCUSSION
Pursuant to an intergovernmental agreement establishing the Platte River Power Authority (PRPA), the City is
entitled to representation on the eight-member Board of Directors of PRPA by its Mayor and a second
appointee to be designated by City Council.
Currently, Mayor Wade Troxell and Mayor Pro Tem Cunniff are the appointed City representatives serving on
the PRPA Board. On April 6, 2021, the City held a regular municipal election, at which voters elected a new
Mayor and Councilmembers to represent Districts 1, 3, 4, and 5. With the swearing in of newly -elected Mayor
Jeni Arndt and Councilmembers Gutowsky, Canonico, Peel, and Ohlsen on April 27, 2021, the terms o f office
for Mayor Troxell and Mayor Pro Tem Cunniff will end and, according to Resolution 2019 -065, the PRPA Board
appointments will pass on to the new Mayor and successor Councilmember unless Council takes other action.
This item gives Council the opportunity to appoint City Manager Darin Atteberry to the Board on an interim
basis, to provide continuity for the Board position until such time as Council determines its new, updated
appointments to outside boards and commissions. If the Resolution is approv ed, the City Manager will serve in
an interim appointment, along with Mayor Arndt in her ongoing appointment, to represent the City on the PRPA
Board.
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RESOLUTION 2021-050
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
MAKING AN INTERIM APPOINTMENT TO THE
PLATTE RIVER POWER AUTHORITY BOARD
WHEREAS, pursuant to the intergovernmental agreement establishing the Platte River
Power Authority (“PRPA”), the City is entitled to representation on the eight-member Board of
Directors of PRPA by its mayor and a second appointee, to be designated by the City Council; and
WHEREAS, on April 6, 2021, the City held a regular municipal election, at which voters
elected a new Mayor and Councilmembers to represent Districts 1, 3, 4, and 5; and
WHEREAS, the City Council previously designated then Mayor Pro Tem Ross Cunniff to
serve as the City’s appointed representative to the PRPA Board; and
WHEREAS, with the swearing in of the new Mayor and Councilmembers on April 27,
2021, the terms of office for Mayor Troxell and Mayor Pro Tem Cunniff have ended; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Resolution 2019-065 making Council appointments (including
Councilmember appointments to the PRPA Board), “[i]n the event any individual appointee leaves
office before Council acts to make a new appointment, the new incumbent in that individual
Council seat shall be deemed to have assumed his or her predecessor’s appointments”; and
WHEREAS, until such time as Council considers and adopts new, updated appointments
to outside boards and commissions, the Council has determined that the interim appointment of
City Manager Darin Atteberry to serve on the Board along with newly-elected Mayor Jeni Arndt
will provide beneficial continuity; and
WHEREAS, in light of the foregoing, the Council has determined to make the interim
appointment set forth below, effective immediately, until such time as the Council takes new action
to appoint a City representative to the PRPA Board to serve along with newly-elected Mayor Jeni
Arndt.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS, as follows:
Section 1. That the City Council hereby makes and adopts the determinations and
findings contained in the recitals set forth above.
Section 2. That Darin Atteberry, Fort Collins City Manager, is hereby appointed to
serve on an interim basis as the City’s representative on the Platte River Power Authority Board,
(in addition to Mayor Jeni Arndt, who succeeds Mayor Wade Troxell), effective immediately, until
such time as the Council acts to modify this appointment.
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Passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the Council of the City of Fort Collins this
27th day of April, A.D. 2021.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Clerk