HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 06/01/2021 - FIRST READING OF ORDINANCE NO. 075, 2021, APPROPRI Agenda Item 5
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AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY June 1, 2021
City Council
STAFF
Aaron Harris, Interim Recreation Director
Ingrid Decker, Legal
SUBJECT
First Reading of Ordinance No. 075, 2021, Appropriating Prior Year Reserves in the Community Capital
Improvement Program Fund for Public Engagement for the Southeast Community Innovation Center and Pool.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The purpose of this item is to appropriate funds to hire a consultant to conduct public outreach that will be used
to provide program plan services for the Southeast Community Innovation Center and Pool that was approved
in the BOB 2 (Building on Basics) ballot measure in 2015.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading.
BACKGROUND / DISCUSSION
Construction of a Southeast Community Innovation Center and Pool was approved by voters in 2015 as part of
the BOB 2 ballot measure. This center is scheduled for design in 2022, construction in 2023, and opening in
2024. Due to the unique purpose of this facility focusing on innovation, community center elements, and a
leisure pool, conducting public outreach is crucial to ensuring the needs of the community are met.
CITY FINANCIAL IMPACTS
City resources would increase by $100,000. These funds would be draw n from BOB 2 sales tax proceeds. The
funds will be spent by the Recreation Department to hire a consultant to accomplish this goal.
PUBLIC OUTREACH
If funded, public outreach will include reaching out to traditionally underrepresented groups of people , Parks
and Recreation Board, Senior Advisory Board, and Youth Advisory Board. Additional public meetings will take
place throughout the community.
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ORDINANCE NO. 075, 2021
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING PRIOR YEAR RESERVES IN THE COMMUNITY CAPITAL
IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM FUND FOR PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT FOR THE
SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY INNOVATION CENTER AND POOL
WHEREAS, in April 2015, Fort Collins voters passed a ten-year quarter cent (.25%)
sales tax renewal dedicated to community capital improvements, known as “Building on Basics”
or “BOB”; and
WHEREAS, in Resolution 2015-012, one of the projects the City Council specified
would be funded with BOB proceeds is a southeast community center with an outdoor pool,
focused on innovation, technology, art, recreation, and the creative process (the “Project”); and
WHEREAS, the Project is scheduled to be designed in 2022, and Recreation staff wishes
to use $100,000 of the BOB proceeds to engage an consultant to conduct public outreach that
will be used to help develop a program plan for this unique facility; and
WHEREAS, this appropriation benefits the public health, safety and welfare of the
residents of Fort Collins and serves the public purpose of ensuring that the Project will be
designed to best serve the needs of the community; and
WHEREAS, Article V, Section 9 of the City Charter permits the City Council, upon the
recommendation of the City Manager, to appropriate by ordinance at any time during the fiscal
year such funds for expenditure as may be available from reserves accumulated in prior years,
notwithstanding that such reserves were not previously appropriated; and
WHEREAS, the City Manager has recommended the appropriation described herein and
determined that this appropriation is available and previously unappropriated from the
Community Capital Improvement Program Fund and will not cause the total amount
appropriated in the Community Capital Improvement Program Fund to exceed the current
estimate of actual and anticipated revenues to be received in that Fund during this fiscal year.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED 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 there is hereby appropriated for expenditure from prior year reserves in
the Community Capital Improvement Program Fund the sum of ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND
DOLLARS ($100,000) for public outreach by the Recreation Department that will be used to
provide program plan services for the Southeast Community Innovation Center and Pool.
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Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 1st day of
June, A.D. 2021, and to be presented for final passage on the 15th day of June, A.D. 2021.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading on the 15th day of June, A.D. 2021.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Clerk