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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 01/16/2001 - FIRST READING OF ORDINANCE NO. 8, 2001, APPROPRIAT AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY ITEM NUMBER: 13 FORT COLLINS CITY COUNCIL DATE: January 16, 2001 STAFF: Matt Baker SUBJECT: First Reading of Ordinance No. 8, 2001, Appropriating Prior Year Reserves in the Street Oversizing Fund and Authorizing the Transfer of Appropriations from the Street Oversizing Fund to the Capital Projects Fund for the Timberline and Drake Roadway Improvements. RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading. FINANCIAL IMPACT: This Ordinance transfers $3,223,712 from the Street Oversizing Fund into the Capital Projects Fund to construct arterial roadway improvements for the Timberline and Drake Roadway Improvements. This project will go to bid as soon as funds are available. All of the funds will be appropriated from the Street Oversizing Program. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Arterial street improvements are planned for approximately one mile of Timberline Road, from Vermont Drive to approximately 2000 feet north of the intersection with Drake Road. Drake Road will be improved from the Union Pacific Railroad tracks on the west end of the project to approximately 1000 feet east of the intersection with Timberline Road. The project will construct full intersection improvements including auxiliary turn lanes. BACKGROUND: Over the past two years staff has completed the design of the Timberline and Drake Roadway Improvements Project. This project is being constructed in conjunction with the Rigden Farm development and is fully funded by development through the Street Oversizing Program. The improvements will span on Timberline Road from Vermont Drive to 2000 feet north of the intersection and on Drake Road from the Union Pacific Railroad tracks east of the intersection 1000 feet. The project is planned to begin construction in the spring of 2001, with final completion and landscaping to be completed in the fall of 2001. The improvements to Timberline Road include widening Timberline Road to a four-lane arterial with landscaped medians. This widening will accommodate turn lanes at Custer Drive and DATE: January 16, 2001 2 ITEM NUMBER: 13 Sagebrush Drive, as well as entrances to future development on Timberline and to Sagebrush Drive on Drake Road. There will be double left turn lanes constructed with this project on all approaches to the intersection of Timberline and Drake. The improvements will include curb and gutter, 8 foot sidewalks, 8 foot bike lanes, colored concrete handicap access ramps, full length medians with plantings and hardscaping, asphalt and concrete paving with decorative crosswalks, and storm sewer and waterline installation. An important feature of this project is the effort to preserve the existing ash trees in the landscaped medians. The Pavement Management Program will take advantage of this construction project to complete some repair and maintenance work adjacent to the project. These improvements will be completed as part of the same construction contract; however, funding of these repairs is already budgeted and appropriated. In order to take this project to bid and to start construction in the spring, funding for the project must be appropriated into the Capital Project Fund. ORDINANCE NO. 8, 2001 OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS APPROPRIATING PRIOR YEAR RESERVES IN THE STREET OVERSIZING FUND AND AUTHORIZING THE TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS FROM THE STREET OVERSIZING FUND TO THE CAPITAL PROJECTS FUND FOR THE TIMBERLINE AND DRAKE ROADWAY IMPROVEMENTS WHEREAS, City staff has been working on the design plans for a section of Timberline Road from Vermont Drive north to the intersection of Timberline and Drake Roads(the"Project') including the widening of Timberline to a four-lane arterial with landscaped medians; construction of double left turn lanes on all approaches to the intersection of Timberline and Drake;curb,gutter, eight-foot sidewalks and bikelanes;ADA compliant access ramps;full length medians with plantings and hardscaping; asphalt and concrete paving with decorative crosswalks; and storm sewer and waterline installation; and WHEREAS, the Project will be constructed in conjunction with the Rigden Farm development; and WHEREAS, the estimated cost of the Project is $3,223,712, and funds are available in the form of prior year reserves in the Street Oversizing Fund; and WHEREAS,upon completion of the bid process,the Project will begin in the spring of 2001, with final completion and landscaping to be completed in the fall of 2001; and WHEREAS, Article V, Section 9, of the Charter of the City of Fort Collins (the "Charter") permits the City Council to appropriate 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,Article V,Section 10,of the Charter authorizes the City Council to transfer by ordinance any unexpended and unencumbered amount or portion thereof from one fund or capital project to another fund or capital project,provided that the purpose for which the transferred funds are to be expended remains unchanged; and WHEREAS,it is the desire of the City Council to appropriate funds totaling$3,223,712 from prior year reserves in the Street Oversizing Fund, and authorize the transfer of said appropriations to the Capital Projects Fund, to be used to construct improvements along Timberline Road from Vermont Drive north to the intersection of Drake Road and including the intersection of Timberline and Drake Roads. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS that the sum of THREE MILLION TWO HUNDRED TWENTY-THREE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED TWELVE DOLLARS ($3,223,712), is hereby appropriated for expenditure from prior year reserves in the Street Oversizing Fund,authorized for transfer to the Capital Projects Fund,Timberline and Drake Road capital project,and appropriated therein,to be used to construct improvements along Timberline Road from Vermont Drive north to the intersection of Drake Road and including the intersection of Timberline and Drake Roads. Introduced and considered favorably on first reading and ordered published this 16th day of January, A.D. 2001, and to be presented for final passage on the 6th day of February, A.D. 2001. Mayor ATTEST: City Clerk Passed and adopted on final reading this 6th day of February, A.D. 2001. Mayor ATTEST: City Clerk L _ . I IL E DRAKE RD I a 0 � D 0 I I Vicinity Map N rake Road and Timberline Road Improvements 1000 0 10oa Feet