HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 08/03/1999 - ITEMS RELATING TO INSTALLATION OF NEW CROSSING WAR AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY ITEM NUMBER: 20 A-B
DATE: August 3, 1999
FORT COLLINS CITY COUNCIL
STAFF: Mike Herzig
SUBJECT:
Items Relating to Installation of New Crossing Warning Devices.
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends adoption of the Resolution and of the Ordinance on First Reading.
FINANCIAL IMPACT:
Federal "ISTEA" funds will pay for 100% of the cost for the new crossing warning devices.
$134,258 in Federal Funds has been budgeted towards this project and is being appropriated into the
City's Minor Streets Capital Fund. The City is required to pay for the Colorado Department of
Transportation's costs for administering the project. These costs, estimated at$2,242,will be paid
with existing Minor Streets Capital Funds.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
A. Resolution 99-96 Authorizing the City Manager to Enter into an Agreement with the
Colorado Department of Transportation, and the Union Pacific Railroad Company for
Installing New Crossing Warning Devices at the Larimer County Road 32 and Union Pacific
Railroad Crossing.
B. First Reading of Ordinance No. 132, 1999, Appropriating Unanticipated Revenue in the
Capital Projects Fund Minor Streets Capital Project to Be Used to Install New Crossing
Warning Devices at the Larimer County Road 32 And Union Pacific Railroad Crossing.
The agreement with the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT), and the Union Pacific
Railroad Company (UPRR), is for installation of crossing warning devices at the Larimer County
Road 32 and UPRR crossing as shown on the attached map. The project consists of replacing the
existing stop sign controlled crossing with a signal system and gates to improve safety at the
crossing. In addition,the signal system will improve the function of the street by requiring vehicles
to stop only for trains. This installation will work well with the traffic signal planned for installation
at Latimer County Road 32 at Timberline Road (700 feet to the east of the crossing).
DATE: August 3, 1999 2 ITEM NUMBER: 20 A-B
The City applied for and received Federal ISTEA Funds to pay for 100%of the cost to upgrade the
crossing warning devices. Ordinance No. 132, 1999, appropriates the $134,258 in Federal Funds
budgeted towards the project in to the City's Minor Streets Capital Project in the Capital Projects
Fund. The UPRR's estimated cost for the upgrade is $126,758. The City is required to pay for
CDOT's costs for administering the project, because the federal funds may not be used for this
purpose. These costs, estimated at $2,242, will be paid for with existing Minor Streets Capital
Funds.
This project is planned to be done in coordination with another project under separate agreement
between the City and the UPRR to replace and widen the crossing material to provide width for the
two travel lanes and two bicycle lanes/shoulders.
Construction of the improvements is scheduled to be done in the fall of this year.
RESOLUTION 99-96
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO
AN AGREEMENT WITH THE COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF
TRANSPORTATION AND THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY
FOR INSTALLING NEW CROSSING WARNING DEVICES AT THE
LARIMER COUNTY ROAD 32 AND UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD CROSSING
WHEREAS, the City and the Union Pacific Railroad Company ("Union Pacific") desire to
install new crossing warning devices at the Larimer County Road 32 and Union Pacific Railroad
crossing; and
WHEREAS, Federal Intermodel Surface Transportation Efficiency Act ("ISTEA") funds
have been made available to pay for one hundred(100)percent of the cost of installing new crossing
warning devices; and
WHEREAS,the Ciry has sufficient Minor Streets Capital Funds to reimburse the Colorado
Department of Transportation for its costs in administering the project, which costs are estimated
to be in the sum of Two Thousand Two Hundred and Forty Two Dollars ($2,242); and
WHEREAS,the costs of the project are estimated by Union Pacific to be in the sum of One
Hundred Twenty Six Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty Eight Dollars ($126,758); and
WHEREAS, ISTEA funds are available in the maximum amount of One Hundred Thirty
Four Thousand Two Hundred and Fifty Eight Dollars ($134,258)to fund the project; and
WHEREAS, the City, the State of Colorado and Union Pacific now desire to enter into a
contract for the purpose of accomplishing the installation of new crossing warning devices at the
Larimer County Road 32 and Union Pacific Railroad crossing; and
WHEREAS, Section 16 of Article II of the City Charter provides that the Council may, by
resolution,enter into contracts with other governmental bodies to furnish governmental services or
to enter into cooperative or joint activities with other governmental bodies; and
WHEREAS, the Council had determined that the aforesaid contract for the installation of
new crossing warning devices is in the best interest of the City.
NOW,THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLIN''S that the City Council hereby approves the Contract between and among the City,the State
of Colorado and the Union Pacific Railroad Company,and authorizes the City Manager to enter into
the Contract on behalf ofthe City,which contract provides that one hundred(100)percent of the cost
to install the aforesaid new crossing warning devices shall be funded by Intermodel Surface
Transportation Efficiency Act funds and the cost incurred by the State of Colorado in administering
the project shall be reimbursed by the City to the State in the estimated sum of Two Thousand Two
Hundred and Forty Two Dollars($2,242), from City Minor Streets Capital Funds.
Passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council held this 3rd day of August,
A. D. 1999.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk
ORDINANCE NO. 132, 1999
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED REVENUE IN THE
CAPITAL PROJECTS FUND MINOR STREETS CAPITAL PROJECT
TO BE USED TO INSTALL NEW CROSSING WARNING DEVICES AT THE
LARIMER COUNTY ROAD 32 AND UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD CROSSING
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, does not exceed the then current estimate of actual
and anticipated revenues to be received during the fiscal year; and
WHEREAS,the City Council adopted Resolution 99-96,on August 3, 1999,authorizing the
City to enter into a contract with the Colorado Department of Transportation(CDOT)and the Union
Pacific Railroad Company for the receipt of Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act funds
(ISTEA) to be used to install new crossing warning devices at the Larimer County Road 32 and
Union Pacific Railroad crossing (the"Project'); and
WHEREAS, the estimated cost of the Project is One Twenty-Nine Thousand Dollars
($129,000);and
WHEREAS, CDOT has made available to the City, Intermodal Surface Transportation
Efficiency Act funds to pay for one hundred (100)percent of the cost ($126,758) of installing new
crossing warning devices at the Project; and
WHEREAS,local funds,totaling Two Thousand Two Hundred Forty-Two Dollars($2,242)
have been identified and are appropriated in the 1999 Capital Projects Fund Minor Streets Capital
project to be used to reimburse the Colorado Department of Transportation for its costs in
administering the Project; and
WHEREAS, it is the desire of the Council to appropriate the sum of$126,758 in federal
Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act funds to be used to install new crossing warning
devices at the Larimer County Road 32 and Union Pacific Railroad crossing.
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 Minor Streets Capital project,the sum of ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-SIX
THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED FIFTY-EIGHT DOLLARS ($126.758), upon receipt from
Colorado Department of Transportation Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act funds,to.
be used to install new crossing warning devices at the Larimer County Road 32 and Union Pacific
Railroad crossing.
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Introduced and considered favorably on first reading and ordered published this 3rd day of
August, A.D. 1999, and to be presented for final passage on the 17th day of August,A.D. 1999.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading this l7th day of August, A.D. 1999.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk
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