HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 08/15/2000 - FIRST READING OF ORDINANCE NO. 94, 2000, APPROPRIA AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY ITEM NUMBER: 13
FORT COLLINS CITY COUNCIL DATE: August 15, 2000
STAFF:
Edith Felchle
SUBJECT:
First Reading of Ordinance No. 94, 2000, Appropriating Unanticipated Revenue in the Capital
Projects Fund 1/4 Cent Building Community Choices Natural Areas Capital Project to be used for
Environmental Education Projects.
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading.
FINANCIAL IMPACT:
Adoption of this Ordinance will allow the City to receive $50,000 from Great Outdoors Colorado
for environmental education projects completed in June 2000.
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
In July 1996, the City Council adopted Resolution 96-85, supporting the Poudre/Big Thompson
Legacy Grant Application. From that application, Great Outdoors Colorado awarded$3.4 million.
The $50,000 for which appropriation is requested is an element of that grant covering
education/interpretation features in the Fort Collins area. The $50,000 will be appropriated in the
Natural Areas Quarter-Cent Building Community Choices fund education project.
BACKGROUND:
The Poudre/Big Thompson Legacy Project was awarded $3.4 million, with over $15 million in
partner matches. The project involves partners all along both the Poudre and Big Thompson rivers
in natural area purchases,trail development,State Parks development,and education/interpretation
features. One of the education/interpretation elements was for features along the Poudre in the Fort
Collins area. This element was for a grant amount of$50,000 and a partner match of$80,000.
The completed project came in at $124,493 ($50,000 grant; $74,493 partner match). The specific
projects completed were the development of an identifying symbol that is available for partner-
sponsored projects along the rivers and interpretive signage at seven sites: Cottonwood Hollow
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Natural Area, Riverbend Ponds Natural Area, Prospect Ponds Natural Area, North Shields Pond
Natural Area, Arapaho Bend Natural Area, Gateway Park, and Colorado State University's
Environmental Learning Center. The interpretive features focus on responsible fishing and on
highlighting various wildlife species that visitors to the sites may see.
Adoption of this Ordinance will facilitate reimbursement for expenditures on this grant element.
ORDINANCE NO. 94, 2000
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED REVENUE IN THE
CAPITAL PROJECTS FUND 1/4 CENT BUILDING COMMUNITY CHOICES
NATURAL AREAS CAPITAL PROJECT TO BE USED FOR
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION PROJECTS
WHEREAS, in 1996, the City of Fort Collins, together with the City of Greeley, City of
Loveland, Estes Valley Park and Recreation District, Latimer County, Town of Windsor, Weld
County, the Nature Conservancy, Poudre River Trail Corridor, Inc., the Colorado Division of
Wildlife (DOW), and the Colorado Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation (DPOR) (the
"Partners"),to create the Cache La Poudre-Big Thompson Legacy Program,a voluntary program to
develop a legacy for present and future generations that preserves and enhances natural,recreational,
agricultural, educational, and other publicly beneficial opportunities associated with the Cache La
Poudre and Big Thompson Rivers and their watersheds; and
WHEREAS,also in 1996,the Partners submitted a detailed project application to the Board
of the Great Outdoors Colorado Trust Fund(the"Board")for the completion of the project entitled
the Poudre-Big Thompson Rivers Legacy Project,which was approved by the Board in the amount
of$3,400,000, on October 23, 1996 (the "Legacy Grant Project"); and
WHEREAS, in September 1998, the Council adopted Resolution 98-128, authorizing the
City Manager to enter into the Poudre-Big Thompson Rivers Legacy Project Grant Agreement(the
"Grant Agreement") and a Memorandum of Understanding (the"MOU") with the Board together
with the Partners (other than the DOW and the DPOR) regarding Phase I of the Legacy Grant
Project; and
WHEREAS, in late 1998, the Grant Agreement and Phase I MOU were executed and the
Legacy Grant Project initiated; and
WHEREAS, an element of the Grant Agreement and Phase I MOU involves covering
education/interpretation features in the Fort Collins area,including developing an identifying symbol
available for partner-sponsored projects along the rivers and interpretive signage at the Cottonwood
Hollow Natural Area, Riverbend Ponds Natural Area, Prospect Ponds Natural Area,North Shields
Pond Natural Area, Arapaho Bend Natural Area, Gateway Park, and Colorado State University's
Environmental Learning Center; and
WHEREAS, the aforementioned education/interpretation features have been completed at
a cost of $124,493 and constructed using available appropriations in the Capital Projects Fund
Building Community Choices Natural Areas capital project($117,058) and the Parks Maintenance
budget in the City's General Fund ($7,435); and
WHEREAS, through the Grant Agreement, the City will receive $50,000 from Great
Outdoors Colorado ("GOCO") through the Poudre-Big Thompson Rivers Legacy Grant as
reimbursement to the City for its share of the costs associated with providing the
• education/interpretation features; and
WHEREAS,the remaining$74,493 (the"Partner Match"),represents the City's share from
Building Community Choices funds ($67,058) and a contribution from Larimer County ($7,435);
and
WHEREAS,Article V, Section 9,of the Charter of the City of Fort Collins permits the City
Council to make supplemental appropriations by ordinance at any time during the fiscal year,
provided that the total amount of such supplemental appropriations,in combination with all previous
appropriations for that fiscal year,does not exceed the then current estimate of actual and anticipated
revenues to be received during the fiscal year.
WHEREAS, it is the desire of the City Council to appropriate $50,000 from unanticipated
revenue in the Capital Projects Fund Building Community Choices Natural Areas capital project,
representing grant proceeds from the Great Outdoors Colorado Poudre-Big Thompson Rivers
Legacy Grant, to be used as reimbursement for expenditures incurred in providing
education/interpretation features.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS that there is hereby appropriated for expenditure from unanticipated revenue in the
Capital Projects Fund Building Community Choices Natural Areas capital project,the sum of FIFTY
THOUSAND DOLLARS ($50,000), upon receipt from Great Outdoors Colorado to be used as
reimbursement for expenses incurred in providing education/interpretation features.
Introduced and considered favorably on first reading and ordered published this 15th day of
August, A.D. 2000, and to be presented for final passage on the 5th day of September, A.D. 2000.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading this 5th day of September, A.D. 2000.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk