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AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY
Agenda Item 15
June 15, 2021
City Council
STAFF
Aaron Harris, Interim Recreation Director
Ingrid Decker, Legal
SUBJECT
Second 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
This Ordinance, adopted on First Reading on June 1, 2021 by a vote of 5-1 (Nay: Ohlson), appropriates 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 Second Reading.
ATTACHMENTS
1.First Reading Agenda Item Summary, June 1, 2021 (w/o attachments)(PDF)
2.Powerpoint Presentation (PDF)
3.Ordinance No. 075, 2021 (PDF)
Agenda Item 5
Item # 5 Page 1
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 drawn 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.
ATTACHMENT 1
1
Public Outreach for Southeast Community Innovation Center and Pool
Aaron Harris
6/15/21
ATTACHMENT 2
BOB 2 Ballot Language
This project will build a Community Center in southeast Fort
Collins focused on innovation, technology, art, recreation, and
the creative process. The Center will also have a large outdoor
leisure pool with water slides, sprays and jets, decks, a lazy river
and open swimming area.
2
Project Timeline
2021
Engagement process
to identify facility
priorities
3
2022
Facility design
2023-2024
Construction and
facility opening
Goals of Public Outreach
•Determine facility priorities
•Engage community in facility
development to enhance community
interest
•Determine financial sustainability of each
programming space
•Identify gaps in existing programming
4
Engagement Strategies and Ta ctics
•Conduct statistically valid
survey
•Seek input from
traditionally marginalized
populations
•Hold public engagement
sessions, along with
smaller stakeholder
discussions
5
Rationale for Consultant Expenses
•Cost estimates derived from
conversations with
consultants and other cities
•City staff lack available time
to attain level of knowledge
this project requires
6
7
Thank you
Aaron Harris
6/1/21
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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:
_______________________________
City Clerk