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Home My WebLink AboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 07/20/1999 - FIRST READING OF ORDINANCE NO. 115, 1999, APPROPRI i AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY ITEM NUMBER: 13 FORT COLLINS CITY COUNCIL DATE: July 20, 1999 STAFF: Tom Frazier SUBJECT : E First Reading of Ordinance No. 115, 1999, Appropriating Unanticipated Revenue and Prior Year Reserves in the Transit Services Fund to be Used for the Provision of Transit Services. RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading. FINANCIAL IMPACT: This Ordinance will appropriate a total of$761,127 in the Transit Services Fund. JOB ACCESS TransforuDial-A-Ride was awarded a Federal Transit Administration Job Access Grant of$184,549 to operate a route from downtown Fort Collins along the Colorado Highway 14 corridor. The local match for this service is $184,549 and it is available in the Transit Services Fund Prior Year Reserves. VEHICLE REPLACEMENT Transfort/Dial-A-Ride also received a Federal Transit Administration 5309 Grant for$700,000 to acquire replacement buses. The City of Fort Collins,in the 1999 Transfort/Dial-A-Ride budget,had budgeted the grant at$625,000. This Ordinance will appropriate an additional$75,000 unanticipated federal portion and transfer $18,750 for the required additional local match from Transit Services Fund Prior Year Reserves. FEDERAL OPERATING AND PLANNING/CAPITAL During 1999,staff closed a 1996 Federal Transit Administration(FTA)grant,which had an unspent balance of$157,228. The FTA authorized the $157,228 to be carried forward to the FTA 1999 Grant. Additionally, the FTA 1999 grant for general transit operations was $81,395 higher than originally projected. The 1996 unspent grant balance and the additional 1999 grant funding approval created unanticipated federal revenues of $238,623. This Ordinance appropriates an additional $238,623 in unanticipated federal grant funds and transfers $59,656 for local match from Transit II Services Fund Prior Year Reserves. DATE: July 20, 1999 2 ITEM NUMBER: 13 i EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Federal funds for transit are not usually finalized until after the City's budget is adopted. This Ordinance reflects the additional federal funds made available in 1999 for the City and the required local matching funds. These additional funds are all FTA grants, but for different programs. 1. JOB ACCESS TRANSIT SERVICE: The City applied for a FTA Job Access Grant to serve the corridor from downtown, along Colorado Highway 14, to I-25 and back. The City was awarded a$184,549 grant to service this corridor Monday thru Saturday from 6 a.m.to midnight 310 days/year. The grant is primarily to support low income and welfare individuals in transportation from home to work and trips associated with work such as child care,health care, and counseling. This corridor is part of the City's Transit Development Plan,and it was chosen because of the large number of hourly jobs available along Lincoln Avenue and around the I- 25/Mulberry intersection. The local match is$184,549 and will be taken from Transit Services Fund Prior Year Reserves for year one of the grant. Staff has started a campaign to partner with Larimer County Human Services and business owners along the corridor to assist in local match for future grant years. The grant award is for one year;however,future grant submissions should receive preference over agencies submitting new grant requests in subsequent years. 2. VEHICLE REPLACEMENT:In the preparation for the 1999 budget, staff projected the City would receive $625,000 in federal funds to replace existing vehicles. The federal grant was awarded at $700,000. The additional funding will be used to replace seven (7) high mileage/maintenance vehicles. Since funds are currently budgeted in 1999 for vehicle replacement,this Ordinance will appropriate the difference between the federal funding budgeted ($625,000)and the unanticipated revenue($700,000)plus the additional funds needed for local match($18,750). i j 3. FEDERAL OPERATING & PLANNING/CAPITAL FUNDS: The FTA provides grantees three (3) years to spend grant funds. At the end of three years the grants are closed and any funding remaining goes back to the FTA. The 1996 Transfort/Dial-A-Ride Grant was closed in 1999 and it had a remaining balance of$157,228. The City requested that the $157,228 be transferred to the City's 1999 FTA grant to be used for the original purposes of planning and capital purchases. The FTA approved the request. The funding will be used for acquisition of new radios and bus shelters, and for planning projects(coordination with Poudre R-1, route re- structuring,and future transit center locations). These projects were planned in 1996,but other priorities delayed their implementation. All these projects will be started in 1999 and completed this year or in 2000. The additional transit operating funds of $81,395 will be used for operators' salaries,bus maintenance,and fuel. This Ordinance appropriates$238,623 in federal j unanticipated revenue and transfers$59,656 from Transit Services Fund Prior Year Reserves for local match. !I i i ORDINANCE NO. 115, 1999 OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS . APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED REVENUE AND PRIOR YEAR RESERVES IN THE TRANSIT SERVICES FUND TO BE USED FOR THE PROVISION OF TRANSIT SERVICES WHEREAS, federal funding allocations for transit programs are not usually finalized until after the City of Fort Collins' budget is adopted and funds are appropriated; and WHEREAS, subsequent to the adoption of the City's 1998-1999 biennial budget and the appropriation of 1999 funds, the Federal Transit Administration has awarded Fort Collins with additional grant revenue totaling $498,172 to be used to provide service along the corridor from downtown,along Colorado Highway 14,to Interstate 25,to replace existing transit vehicles, and to acquire new radios and bus shelters, and for various planning projects; and WHEREAS,the City's share of local matching funds,totaling$262,955,has been identified and are available in the form of prior year reserves in the Transit 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, it is the desire of the Council to appropriate the total amount of$761,127, consisting of Federal Transit Administration funds($498,172)and prior year reserves in the Transit Services Fund ($262,955), for the purpose of providing various transit services in 1999. 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 in the Transit Services Fund, the sum of THREE HUNDRED SIXTY-NINE THOUSAND NINETY-EIGHT DOLLARS ($369,098) from the following sources: Federal Transit Administration - Job Access Grant $ 184,549 Transit Services Fund - Prior Year Reserves 184,549 Total $ 369,098 to be used to operate a route from downtown Fort Collins along the Colorado Highway 14 corridor to Interstate 25. Section 2. That there is hereby appropriated for expenditure in the Transit Services Fund, the sum of NINETY-THREE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS($93,750)from the following sources: Federal Transit Administration- Section 5309 Grant $ 75,000 Transit Services Fund-Prior Year Reserves 18,750 Total $ 93,750 to be used to replace transit vehicles. Section 3. That there is hereby appropriated for expenditure in the Transit Services Fund, the sum of TWO HUNDRED NINETY-EIGHT THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY-NINE DOLLARS ($298,279) from the following sources: Federal Transit Administration-Planning/Capital Grant $ 238,623 Transit Services Fund -Prior Year Reserves 59,656 Total $ 298,279 to be used for various planning and capital purchases. Introduced and considered favorably on first reading and ordered published this 20th day of July, A.D. 1999, and to be presented for final passage on the 3rd day of August,A.D. 1999. Mayor ATTEST: City Clerk Passed and adopted on final reading this 3rd day of August, A.D. 1999. Mayor ATTEST: City Clerk