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ITEM NUMBER: 14
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY DATE: July 6, 1999
• FORT COLLINS CITY COUNCIL STAFF
• Kathleen Reavis
SUBJECT:
Items Relating to the Design and Construction of Harmony Road Bike Lanes.
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends adoption of the Resolution and the Ordinance on First Reading.
FINANCIAL IMPACT:
The total cost of this project is $456,485 for years 1999 and 2000. Over this two-year period,the
City of Fort Collins will receive from CDOT $365,188 in Transportation Equity Act for the 21 st
Century (TEA-21)funds for the third phase of the Harmony Road bikeway project. Transportation
Services has the local matching funds required for 1999 totaling $91,297 identified in the current
Transportation Planning budget ($10,297) and from prior year reserves in the Transportation
Services Fund ($81,000).
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
A. Resolution 99-79 Authorizing the Mayor to Enter into a Contract with the Colorado
Department of Transportation for the Design and Construction of Harmony Road Bike
Lanes.
B. First Reading of Ordinance No. 108. 1999,Appropriating Unanticipated Revenue and Prior
Year Reserves in the Transportation Services Fund and Authorizing the Transfer of
Appropriations to be Used for the Design and Construction of Phase Three of the Harmony
Road Bikeway Project.
The attached contract between the City and CDOT will allow for work to proceed to prepare final
design documents and construction of the third phase of the Harmony Road bike lane project:
(1) Final construction plans for all remaining portions of the bikeway project
• along Harmony Road from Boardwalk to County Road 7.
(2) Construction of a portion of remaining bike lanes from Boardwalk to County
Road 7. (Construction of any remaining bike lanes would be completed by
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additional grant funding in 2001 so that the Harmony Road bike lane project
would be fully complete by 2001).
BACKGROUND:
Transportation Planning retained the consultant team of HNTB Corporation and Drake and
Associates to plan and design facilities for bicycle transportation on Harmony Road between College
Avenue and I-25. Staff and the consultant team worked with a citizen's advisory committee on the
development of the Harmony Road Bicycle Project: Concept Plan which included the identification
of existing conditions and constraints, design alternatives, selection of preferred alternative, and
construction phasing plan for the Harmony Road corridor.
Staff, the consultant team, and the citizen's advisory team worked collaboratively to develop
thepriorities for construction of the numerous segments along the Harmony Road corridor.
The evaluation criteria included:
(1) access to schools, employers, shopping, residential areas, etc.;
(2) connectivity to existing and/or planned bicycle facilities;
(3) safety; and
(4) funding availability/likelihood of development adjacent to the segment.
Based upon this process, the highest priority project segments were identified to be:
1. Timberline to County Road 9, north side - particularly the 1/4 mile area in front of the
mobile home park.
Status: The portion of bike lane from Timberline Road to Corbett Drive is complete and the portion
of bike lane from Corbett to County Road 9 will be completed as part of the Symbios Logic project.
2. County Road 9 to County Road 7, south side (across from Hewlett-Packard).
Status: The portion of bike lane from County Road 9 to Cambridge Drive will be completed as part
of the Celestica development. The portion east of Cambridge will be done as a future City/CDOT
project when sufficient funds are identified to widen the bridge culvert and provide for major
roadway/structural improvements.
3. County Road 7 eastward to end of four-lane roadway section, south side.
Status: Bike lanes will be provided on both sides of Harmony Road from County Road 7 across 1-25
as part of CDOT's improvements to the Harmony/1-25 interchange.
4. College Avenue (US287) to Boardwalk Drive and McMurray to Timberline
Status: Bike lanes were completed along both sides of these segments in 1998.
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1999 and 2000 Funding Details
• This additional funding for 1999 and 2000 will allow for finalized construction plans for all
remaining segments as well as construction of a portion of the remaining segments.
1999
$ 41,000 (Federal funding from TEA-21)
$ 10,297 (Local funding from City of Fort Collins)
$ 51,297 Total funding available in year 1999
These funds will be used to complete construction plans for all remaining portions along both sides
of Harmony Road, from Boardwalk to County Road 7.
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2000
$324,188 (Federal funding from TEA-21- confirmed)
$ 81.000 (Local funding from City of Fort Collins)
$405,188 Total funding available in year 2000
These funds will be used to construct as many remaining portions of the bike lanes as possible along
Harmony Road, from Boardwalk to County Road 7.
Total project funds for 1999 and 2000: $456,485
Grant funding to complete any remaining segments of the project is slated for 2001. In addition,
staff is working to incorporate bike lanes with all new developments being proposed along the
Harmony Road corridor to leverage public and private dollars in order to provide a complete
bikeway system from College Avenue to 1-25.
• RESOLUTION 99-79
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO ENTER INTO A CONTRACT WITH
THE COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION FOR THE DESIGN
AND CONSTRUCTION OF HARMONY ROAD BIKE LANES
WHEREAS,pursuant to the Transportation Equity Act for the 21 st Century of 1998,certain
funds have been allocated for highway projects,under the Surface Transportation Program,that have
been proposed by the Colorado Department of Transportation ("CDOT") and approved by the
Federal Highway Administration; and
WHEREAS,certain of said Surface Transportation Project funds are made available only for
eligible"transportation enhancement activities"as those activities are defined in§23 U.S.C. 101 (a);
and
WHEREAS, the City has requested of CDOT that the third phase of the Harmony Road
Bikeway Project be funded as part of the Surface Transportation Program, as a transportation
enhancement activity; and
WHEREAS, federal funds have been made available for the third phase of the Harmony
Road Bikeway Project for the design and construction of Harmony Road bike lanes; and
WHEREAS, CDOT has presented to the City for execution a transportation enhancement
contract for the purpose of providing funding for the third phase of the Harmony Road Bikeway
Project, the total cost of which project is estimated to be $456,485 to be funded with federal
participating funds in the amount of$365,188, and with City participating funds in the amount of
$91,297; and
WHEREAS, the Council has determined that it is in the best interests of the City that the
proposed transportation enhancement contract as above-described be entered into between the City
and CDOT.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
FORT COLLINS that the Mayor be, and hereby is, authorized to execute a transportation
enhancement contract between the City and the Colorado Department of Transportation for the
purpose of providing funding for the third phase of the Harmony Road bikeway project for the
design and construction of bike lanes along Harmony Road with said contract to provide federal
participating funds in the sum of$365,188 and City participating funds in the sum of$91,297 for
a total project cost of$456,485.
Passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council held this 6th day of July, AD,
1999.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk
ORDINANCE NO. 108, 1999
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED REVENUE AND
PRIOR YEAR RESERVES IN THE TRANSPORTATION SERVICES FUND
AND AUTHORIZING THE TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS
TO BE USED FOR THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF PHASE THREE
OF THE HARMONY ROAD BIKEWAY PROJECT
WHEREAS,the City contracted with the consulting team HNTB Corporation and Drake and
Associates and worked with a citizen's advisory committee to plan and design facilities for bicycle
transportation on Harmony Road between College Avenue and Interstate 25; and
WHEREAS, on October 1, 1996, the City Council adopted Ordinance No. 123, 1996,
appropriating a total of$255,180, in the form of Intermodal Surface Transportation Enhancement
Act(ISTEA)funds from the Colorado Department of Transportation(CDOT)and prior year reserves
in the Transportation Services Fund to be used for the construction of phase I of the Harmony Road
Bikeway project (the "Project"); and
WHEREAS, on May 19, 1998, the City Council adopted Ordinance No. 95, 1998,
appropriating$93,600,in the form of Intermodal Surface Transportation Enhancement Act(ISTEA)
funds from the CDOT and authorizing the transfer of$23,400 from existing appropriations in the
Transportation Services Fund to be used for the construction of phase II of the Project; and
WHEREAS, constructing bike lanes along Harmony Road was identified as the highest
priority of the Project; and
WHEREAS,portions of phases I and II have been completed or are planned for completion
as part of the development occurring along the Harmony corridor; and
WHEREAS, the City Council adopted Resolution 99-79, on July 6, 1999, authorizing the
City to enter into an intergovernmental agreement with the CDOT for the receipt of Transportation
Equity Act for the 21st Century funds ("TEA-21 Funds") to be used to construct improvements
relating to phase III of the Project; and
WHEREAS,the CDOT has made available to the City of Fort Collins,TEA-21 funds
in the total amount of$365,188 to proceed with phase III of the Project,providing for the design and
construction of as many remaining portions of the bike lanes as possible along Harmony Road,from
Boardwalk Drive to County Road 7; and
WHEREAS, the estimated cost to complete phase III of the Project is $456,495; and
WHEREAS,local matching funds needed for phase III of the Project,totaling$91,297,have
been identified from existing appropriations ($10,297) and prior year reserves ($81,000) in the
Transportation Services Fund; and
WHEREAS,Article V, Section 9, of the Charter of the City of Fort Collins (the"Charter")
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,do not exceed the then current estimate of actual and
anticipated revenues to be received during the fiscal year; and
WHEREAS,Article V,Section 9,of the Charter also permits the City Council 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,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 Council to appropriate the sum of$365,188 in Colorado
Department of Transportation TEA-21 funds,$81,000 from prior year reserves in the Transportation
Services Fund, and authorize the transfer of$10,297 in local matching funds in the Transportation
Services Fund to be used to construct phase III of the Harmony Road Bikeway project.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS as follows:
Section 1. That there is hereby appropriated for expenditure from unanticipated revenue
in the Transportation Services Fund, the sum of THREE HUNDRED SIXTY-FIVE THOUSAND
ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY-EIGHT DOLLARS ($365,188) from Colorado Department of
Transportation TEA-21 funds, to be used to construct phase III of the Harmony Road Bikeway
project.
Section 2. That there is hereby appropriated from prior year reserves in the
Transportation Services Fund for transfer to the Harmony Road Bikeway project in the
Transportation Services Fund,the sum of EIGHTY-ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS($81,000)to be
used to construct phase III of the Harmony Road Bikeway project.
Section 3. That the unexpended appropriated amount of TEN THOUSAND TWO
HUNDRED NINETY-SEVEN DOLLARS ($10,297) is hereby authorized for transfer from
operations dollars in the Transportation Planning 1999 budget to the Harmony Road Bikeway project
and appropriated therein to be used for the construction of phase III of said project.
. Introduced and considered favorably on first reading and ordered published this 6th day of
July, A.D. 1999, and to be presented for final passage on the 20th day of July, A.D. 1999.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading this 20th day of July, A.D. 1999.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk
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