HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 01/18/2000 - SECOND READING OF ORDINANCE NO. 5, 2000, APPROPRIA AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY ITEM NUMBER: 9
DATE: January 18, 2000
• FORT COLLINS CITY COUNCIL STAFF:
Craig L. Foreman
SUBJECT:
Second Reading of Ordinance No. 5, 2000, Appropriating Unanticipated Revenue in the Capital
Projects Fund for Gateway Mountain Park.
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends the adoption of the Ordinance on Second Reading.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
Gateway Mountain Park is a 400-acre site located five miles up the Poudre Canyon. The site is
owned by the City of Fort Collins and was previously the City's Water Treatment Plant. The City
Council has provided direction to make this property accessible to the public. These lands are
currently inaccessible to the public because the entry road must be improved to provide safe access.
Ordinance No. 5, 2000, which was unanimously adopted on First Reading on January 4, 2000,
appropriates $10,000 from unanticipated revenue in the Capital Projects Fund, Gateway Mountain
Park capital project,to be used for the design and development of environmental education signage
for the Park.
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AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY ITEM NUMBER:
23 A-B
DATE: January 4, 2000
• FORT COLLINS CITY COUNCIL
STAFF: Craig L. Foreman
SUBJECT:
Items Relating to the Gateway Mountain Park.
RECOMMENDATION: Gh
Staff recommends the adoptia of thel Or " ce on First Reading.
FINANCIAL IMPACT:
Adoption of the Resolution and the Ordinance will appropriate $170,000 from the Colorado
Department of Transportation ("CDOT") and $25,000 from Latimer County for the Gateway
Mountain Park Access Road Ce 0 o for environmental education
signage for the park. ! x a
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
A. Resolution 2000-1 Authorizing the Mayor to Enter into the Second Amendment to the
Intergovernmental Agreement Between the City and the Colorado Department of
Transportation ("CDO ,_ y^ Access Design for Gateway
Mountain Park. ,
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B. First Reading of Ordinan .5, ;ApPing ticipated Revenue in the Capital
Projects Fund for Gateway Mountain Park.
Gateway Mountain Park is a 400-acre site located five miles up the Poudre Canyon. The site is
owned by the City of Fort Collins and was previously the City's Water Treatment Plant. The City
Council has provided direction to make this property accessible to the public. These lands are
currently inaccessible to the public because the entry road must be improved to provide safe access.
Adoption of the Resolution authorizes the amendment of the Intergovernmental Agreement between
• CDOT and the City of Fort Collins for the design and development of the access road to Gateway
Mountain Park. The City entered into the Agreement on September 30, 1998 (Resolution 98-113).
DATE. January 4,2000 2 ITEM NUMBER: 23 A-B
The contract provides that it may be changed or modified by written supplemental contract. The
contract is being amended to authorize additional funding for the project in the amount of$3,000
in 1999 funds and $167,000 in year 2000 funds that will be provided by CDOT. The local agency
(City)match of$42,250 has been appropriated by Ordinance No. 135, 1998.
With this amendment,the City will have received a total of$373,000 from CDOT for this project.
The entry road project is expected to cost approximately $1.1 million. Additional funding in the
amount of$520,000 has been authorized and appropriated pursuant to Ordinance No. 135, 1998.
An additional $200,000 in Great Outdoors Colorado funding will be received after the project is
completed. Larimer County is contributing$25,000 to help with the entry road project. The County
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also has$10,000 in Great Outd,ors -l o do ney to el rea environmental education signs
for the Park. Ordinance No. 000 ap opriat the ,00r this purpose.
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