HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 11/02/1999 - FIRST READING OF ORDINANCE NO. 174, 1999, BEING TH AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY ITEM NUMBER: 33
DATE: November 2, 1999
• FORT COLLINS CITY COUNCIL STAFF-
' John Fischbach
SUBJECT:
First Reading of Ordinance No. 174, 1999,Being the Annual Appropriation Ordinance Relating to
the Annual Appropriations for the Fiscal Year 2000 and Adopting the Budget for the Fiscal Years
Beginning January 1, 2000, and Ending December 31, 2001, and Fixing the Mill Levy for Fiscal
Year 2000.
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading.
FINANCIAL IMPACT:
This Ordinance represents the annual appropriation for fiscal year 2000, and adopts the total City
Budget for fiscal year 2000 at $376,193,382 and for fiscal year 2001 at $391,911,977. This
Ordinance also appropriates the Firefighters'Pension Fund of$2,521.212 for 2000 and sets the City
• mill levy at 9.797 mills for fiscal year 2000.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
There have been three study sessions involving discussion of the 2000-2001 budget for the City of
Fort Collins. In addition, two Public Hearings were held along with input from the Boards and
Commissions of the City to aid in the development of the budget. From City Council direction and
the input from the public and boards and commissions,the City of Fort Collins 2000-2001 Biennial
Budget was developed and is now presented to City Council for consideration and adoption and to
appropriate the necessary monies to fund the budget for fiscal year 2000. The second reading of this
Ordinance to adopt the 2000-2001 budget and appropriate monies for fiscal year 2000 is scheduled
for November 16, 1999.
The Net City Budget,which excludes internal transfers between funds and Firefighters' Pension, is
$255,434,439 for 2000 and $268,340,595 for 2001. The Net City Budget is allocated to:
2000 2001
Operations $204,878,807 $207,811,971
Debt Service $ 7,171,984 $ 7,207,273
Capital $ 43,383,648 $ 53.321,351
DATE: November 2, 1999 2 ITEM NUMBER: 33
This Ordinance also sets the 2000 City mill levy at 9.797 mills, unchanged since 1991.
BACKGROUND:
The development of the 2000-2001 budget began in March of this year. In April, Council adopted
Resolution 99-46 that set some principles for budget planning including service priorities for the
City. Input for development of the budget was received from two official public hearings, as well
as through other citizen participation, and from the City's boards and commissions. Three budget
study sessions were held. Acknowledging the input of the public and the boards and commissions,
Council directed that the following service additions be included in the 2000-2001 budget for the
City.
2000 2000 2001 2001
On oin One-time Ongoing One-time
Primary Services
Cottonwood Park Maintenance 30,392 24,346
Stewart Case Park Maintenance 52,169 65,126
Civic Center Park Maintenance 30,317 13,025
Harmony Park Maintenance 35,997 44,936
Park Facility Maintenance 48,852 15,000
Regional Trails 14,408 8,136 7,457 4,210
Median Maintenance 36,165 22,050
Horticulture Center 110,000 110,000
Parking Structure 46,500 6,326
City Office Building O&M 97,700
I-25 Interchange 140,000 100,000 100,000
Facilities Major Maintenance 100,000 288,700 100,000 323,000
Police Staffing 484,330 179,168 569,604 199,609
CAD/RMS-Police 58,309
CAD/RMS-Municipal Court 50,000 50,000
800 MHZ System 264,000 350,000
Land Bank 250,000 500,000
Affordable Housing Production 160,036 228,879
Land Use Code 20,000 20,000
E. Mulberry Corridor Project 127,000
Zoning Inspector 30,720
Plans Analyst 66,576 1,897
Building Inspector 59,681 25,457
Contract Development Review
Engineer 64,077
Development Review Engineer 68,176
Hearings Officer 10,000
Traffic Signal Timing System 1,000,000
Transportation Planning/Local
Match 250,000 24,000 31,000
Municipal Court Move 75,000
Public Nuisance Abatement
Coordinator 63,275 26,590
DATE: November2, 1999 3 ITEM NUMBER: 33
2000 2000 2001 2001
• Oneoinq One-time Ongoing One-time
Fall Leaf/Xmas Tree Drop-off 10,000
Central Recycling Drop-off Site 15,000 100,000
Construction/Demolition Debris 20,000
Renovation of Old Town 95,000
Parking
City Wind Power @ 3%-5% 27,000
Community Separator Plan 40,000
Total Primary Services $1,867,597 $2,860,572 $1,249,963 $1,611,064
Secondary Services
Hickory Park 250,000 250,000
Youth Activities Center Rent 48,000 51,000
Community Mediation 64,163
Bilingual Library Assistant 60,276 22,000
Bilingual Student Aides 18,500
Technology Training Librarian 70,174 22,000
Museum Administrative Clerk 19,217
Humane Society Contract 24,172 8,000
Arts Alive 70,000
Total Secondary Services $186,328 $390,000 $ 78,174 $323,000
Sunnort Services
Systems Analysts 244,140 244,140
GIS Strategic Plan 239,140 178,412
April City Election 160,000
Employee Parking 56,000 56,000
Video Program 18,000 18,000
Total Support Services $0 $557,280 $300,140 $356,412
Total for Additions/
Enhancements $2,053,925 $3,807,852 $1,628,277 $2,290,476
*Resources Available 2,292,957 6,676,679 1,837,256 2,868,827
Net Available $ 239,032 $2,868,827 $ 208,979 $ 578,351
* This includes estimated avilable resources included in the City Manager's recommended budget as
well as updated sales tax revenues through August 1999.
DATE: November 2, 1999 4 ITEM NUMBER: 33
2001 Budget Exception Process
Council directed that a number of items be put on a"priority" list to be considered during the 2001 budget
exception process. These items are as follows:
1. Larimer County Recycling Center Expansion ($100,000 one-time)
2. Air Quality Monitoring Equipment($75,000 one-time)
3. Community Separator Grant Match ($40,000 one-time; $40,000 is budgeted in 2000)
4. Water Quality Monitoring($125,000 to $150,000 ongoing)
5. Traffic Signal Timing system ($3.0 to $4.0 million one-time)
6. General Employees Retirement Plan/Cost of Living Adjustment($843,900 one-time)
7. Human Services Grant.Program/Contract
8. Pollution Prevention ($92,000 ongoing; $27,000 one-time; staff to develop a plan during the next
6 months)
9. Formula for dealing with 'overage" of revenues for street maintenance expenses
Staff will continue to monitor revenue collection throughout 1999 as well as analyzing revenue projections
for the years 2000 and 2001.Any revision of revenue projections(whether up or down)will be included as
part of the 2001 exception process.
• ORDINANCE NO. 174, 1999
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
BEING THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE
RELATING TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATIONS
FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2000 AND ADOPTING THE BUDGET
FOR THE FISCAL YEARS BEGINNING JANUARY 1, 2000,
AND ENDING DECEMBER 31, 2001, AND FIXING THE MILL
LEVY FOR FISCAL YEAR 2000
WHEREAS,the City Manager has,prior to the first Monday in September, 1999, submitted
to the Council a proposed budget for the next ensuing budget term, along with an explanatory and
complete financial plan for each fund of the City,pursuant to the provisions of Article V, Section
2, of the City Charter; and
WHEREAS, within ten (10) days after the filing of said budget estimate, the Council set
September 21 and October 5, 1999, as the dates for the public hearings thereon and caused notice
of such public hearings to be given by publication pursuant to Article V, Section 3, of the City
Charter; and
WHEREAS,the public hearings were held on said dates and all persons were then afforded
an opportunity to appear and object to any or all items and estimates in the proposed budget; and
WHEREAS, Article V, Section 4, of the City Charter requires that, before the last day of
November of each fiscal year,the Council by passage of the annual appropriation ordinance shall
adopt the budget for the ensuing term and appropriate such sums of money as the Council deems
necessary to defray all expenditures of the City during the ensuing fiscal year; and
WHEREAS,Article V, Section 5,of the City Charter provides that the annual appropriation
ordinance shall also fix the tax levy upon each dollar of the assessed valuation of all taxable property
within the City, such levy representing the amount of taxes for City purposes necessary to provide
for payment during the ensuing fiscal year for all properly authorized expenditures to be incurred by
the City, including interest and principal of general obligation bonds; and
WHEREAS, Article XU, Section 6, of the City Charter permits the City Council to fix,
establish, maintain, and provide for the collection of such rates, fees, or charges for water and
electricity,and for other utility services furnished by the City as will produce revenues sufficient to
pay into the General Fund in lieu of taxes on account of the City-owned utilities such amount as may
be established by Council.
•
NOW, THEREFORE,BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS as follows:
Section 1. Budget
a. That the City Council has reviewed the City Manager's 2000-2001 Recommended
Budget, a copy of which is on file with the office of the City Clerk, and has approved certain
amendments thereto.
b. That the City Manager's 2000-2001 Recommended budget, as amended by the
Council, is hereby adopted, in accordance with the provisions of Article V, Section 4, of the City
Charter and incorporated herein by reference; provided, however, that the comparative figures
contained in the adopted budget may be subsequently revised as deemed necessary by the City
Manager to reflect actual revenues and expenditures for the fiscal year 1999 and/or revised
projections for the fiscal years 2002 through 2004.
C. That the adopted budget, as amended, shall be maintained in the office of the City
Clerk and identified as "The Budget for the City of Fort Collins for the Fiscal Years Ending
December 31, 2000 and December 31, 2001, as Adopted by the City Council on November 16,
1999."
Section 2. Appropriations. That there be,and hereby is,appropriated out of the revenues
of the City of Fort Collins, for the fiscal year beginning January 1, 2000, and ending December 31,
2000, the sum of THREE HUNDRED SEVENTY EIGHT MILLION SEVEN HUNDRED
FOURTEEN THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED FOURTEEN DOLLARS($378,714,614)to be raised
by taxation and otherwise, which sum is deemed by the City Council to be necessary to defray all
expenditures of the City during said budget year,to be divided and appropriated for the following
purposes,to wit:
GENERAL FUND $ 77,613,531
COPS Universal Grant 223,494
ENTERPRISE FUNDS
Golf $ 2,225,850
Light&Power 66,300,392
Storm Drainage 6,182,245
Capital:
Basin Master Planning $ 620,000
Computer Systems Enhancements 50,000
Developer Repays 200,000
Flood Mapping & Precip/Stream 100,000
Storm Drainage Capital Total $970,000
Wastewater $16,697,811
Capital:
Collection System Study $250,000
Computer Systems & Mapping 25,000
Computer Systems Enhancements 50,000
Locust St./Riverside Dr. Improvements 1,200,000
Mulberry WRF Improvements 300,000
Sludge Disposal Improvements 1,225,000
Treatment Plant Improvements 1,460,000
Wastewater Capital Total $4,510,000
Water $22,793,433
Capital:
Cathodic Protection $ 130,000
Computer Systems and Mapping 25,000
Computer Systems Enhancements 50,000
District Connections 100,000
Gravel Pit Storage Ponds 150,000
Halligan Reservoir Expansion 300,000
Master Plan Facilities 1,100,000
Meter Conversion Program 965,000
Service Center Improvements 170,000
Summit View Waterline 1,850,000
Treated Water Reservoirs 120,000
Water Supply Development 100,000
Water Capital Total $5,060,000
TOTAL ENTERPRISE FUNDS $124,739,731
INTERNAL SERVICE FUNDS
Benefits $10,147,821
Communications 1,609,056
Equipment 6,035,726
Self Insurance 3,000,681
Utility Customer Service& Administration 9,680,356
TOTAL INTERNAL SERVICE FUNDS $ 30,473,640
SPECIAL REVENUE& DEBT SERVICE FUNDS
Cemeteries $ 607,215
Cultural Services & Facilities 3,242,509
Debt Service 4,817,041
Debt Service - Certificates of Participation 1,743,613
General Employees' Retirement 1,200,000
Open Lands 4,133,295
Perpetual Care 60,677
Recreation 6,787,473
Sales&Use Tax 66,761,060
Special Assessments Debt Service 633,330
Street Oversizing 4,800,541
Transit Services 7,032,656
Transportation Services 16,266,068
Regional TDM $ 827,778
Local TDM 659,740
VanPool 439,942
Metropolitan Planning Organization 7,176
Transportation Projects Total $ 1,934,636
TOTAL SPECIAL REVENUE & DEBT SERVICE FUNDS $120,020,114
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT FUNDS
General City Capital
Minor Street Capital $ 229,751
Pedestrian Accessibility 410,944
Major Building Maintenance 1,307,731
Streets Facility Expansion 1,043,401
Airport Maintenance 60,000
Hickory Park 250,000
Traffic Operations Facility 405,000
Traffic Signal Timing System 1,000,000
Block 31 Maintenance 139342
TOTAL GENERAL CITY CAPITAL $ 4,846,169
General City Capital-1/4 Cent Choices 95
Administration $ 17,400
TOTAL 1/4 CENT CHOICES 95 CAPITAL $ 17,400
General City Capital-Street Maintenance
Administration 17,976
TOTAL STREET MAINTENANCE CAPITAL $ 17,976
1/4 Cent Natural Areas
Administration 20,983
TOTAL 1/4 CENT NATURAL AREAS $ 20,983
• 1/4 Cent Community Enhancements
Administration $ 22,713
Northeast Truck Route 1,538,440
Peforming Arts Center/Land Acquisition 100,000
Taft Hill, Drake Road to Derby 2,958,539
TOTAL 1/4 CENT COMMUNITY ENHANCEMENTS $ 4,619,692
1/4 Cent Natural Areas and Parks
Administration $ 36,464
Natural Area 2,400,000
Community Park Improvements 207,098
Fossil Creek Community Park 2,130,148
TOTAL 1/4 CENT NATURAL AREAS AND PARKS $ 4,773,710
1/4 Cent Streets and Transportation
Administration $ 51,762
Pavement Management Program 4,394,785
Pedestrian Plan 342,857
North College Corridor 118,342
Mason Street Transportation Corridor 411,039
TOTAL 1/4 CENT STREET AND TRANSPORTATION $ 5,318,785
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT EXPANSION FUND $ 42,291
Conservation Trust Fund
Administration $ 225,559
Fossil Creek Trail 500,000
Open Space Acquisition 50,000
Open Space & Trails Maintenance 58,370
Trail Acquisition, Development & Repair 550,000
Tri-City Trails 50,000
TOTAL CONSERVATION TRUST FUND $ 1,433,929
Neighborhood Parkland Fund
Administration $ 241,937
English Ranch Park 110,000
Harmony Park 900,000
Miramont Park 150,000
New Park Site Acquisition 50,000
New Park Site Development 300,000
. Park Site Equipment 5,000
Randy Balok Park 100,000
Provincetowne Park 100,000
Warren Park Restroom 75,000
TOTAL NEIGHBORHOOD PARKLAND FUND $ 2,031,937
TOTAL CITY FUNDS $376,193,382
Fire Fighter's Pension 2,521,232
TOTAL ALL FUNDS $378,714,614
Section 3. Mill Lew
a. That the 2000 mill levy rate for the taxation upon each dollar of the assessed valuation
of all the taxable property within the City of Fort Collins as of December 31, 1999, shall be 9.797
mills,which levy represents the amount of taxes for City purposes necessary to provide for payment
during the aforementioned budget year of all properly authorized expenditures to be incurred by the
City, including interest and principal of general obligation bonds.
b. The City Clerk shall certify this levy of 9.797 mills to the County Assessor and the
Board of Commissioners of Larimer County,Colorado,in accordance with the applicable provisions
of law, as required by Article V, Section 5, of the Charter of the City of Fort Collins.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 2nd day of
November, A.D. 1999, and to be presented for final passage on the 16th day of November, A.D.
1999.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading this 16th day of November, A.D. 1999.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk