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Home My WebLink AboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 05/01/2007 - FIRST READING OF ORDINANCE NO. 061, 2007, APPROPRI ITEM NUMBER: 13 AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY DATE: May 1, 2007 FORT COLLINS CITY COUNCIL STAFF: Karl Gannon SUBJECT First Reading of Ordinance No. 061, 2007, Appropriating Unanticipated Revenue in the Transit Services Fund for Use with Existing Appropriations for the Purpose of Providing Programming Aimed at Relieving Urban Congestion. RECOMMENDATION Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading. FINANCIAL IMPACT The total cost of the three new projects is$337,391 ($249,883 in Federal Funds and$87,508 in local matching funds). However,staff is only requesting the appropriation of$233,710 in this Ordinance. A portion ($16,173) of the federal funds has already been allocated/appropriated in the Bicycle Coordinator Program through the annual budgeting process. No additional local matching funds are required as the City's share is being met from matching funds from the General Fund in the Bicycle Coordinator Program-$42,840 and a reallocation of General Fund resources in the Transit Services Fund - $44,668. Federal funding will come from the Federal Highway Administration's CMAQ Program, administered through CDOT and will replace a previous 2007 commitment to assist in funding the City's now-reduced Transportation Demand Program. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The City of Fort Collins has received Congestion, Mitigation & Air Quality (CMAQ) funding to fund three air quality related projects in 2007. This funding is a reallocation of a portion of the 2007 Transportation Demand Management (TDM) Program — funds not currently required due to the reduction in scope of the TDM Program. The revised CMAQ funding will aid in funding three projects which are: • The Bicycle Coordinator Program(FC Bikes)-an existing Program that seeks to encourage citizens to utilize bicycling as their preferred method of sensible transportation through the implementation of special events and campaigns that emulate the many facets of bicycling, • Transfort Test Ride Marketing Program- a new marketing campaign to promote transit use among the City's largest employers, and • Marketing for Transfort's three new routes - a campaign aimed at increasing public awareness of the new transit fixed routes available in 2007. May 1, 2007 -2- Item No. 13 BACKGROUND The primary goal of the Congestion,Mitigation and Air Quality Program(CMAQ),operated by the Federal Highway Administration,is to relieve urban congestion. As such, the City, with guidance from the Colorado Department of Transportation(CDOT)decided the Transit Marketing programs and the Bicycle Coordinator Program would be eligible for CMAQ funding. Due to the reduction in scope of the City's Transportation Demand Management Program,the original 2007 TDM CMAQ funding has been reallocated at a lesser rate to the above mentioned projects. This reallocation would not have occurred had it not been for the support and approval of the North Front Range Transportation and Air Quality Council in passing two separate resolutions amending the Transportation Improvement Program(TIP)—the first to deprogram the original TDM funds and the second to reallocate funds to the new projects. This ordinance appropriates unanticipated revenue from CMAQ in the amount of$233,710. The required local match and remaining project costs are being met from existing appropriations. The Bicycle Coordinator Program has an existing General Fund overmatch sufficient to cover its portion of the local match requirement. The local match requirement for the two new Marketing Programs is being met by a reallocation of General Fund from other Transit Fund 404 Program sources. ORDINANCE NO , 061 , 2007 OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED REVENUE IN THE TRANSIT SERVICES FUND TO FUND PROGRAMMING THAT RELIEVES URBAN CONGESTION WHEREAS, in 2007 the City discontinued funding for local matching dollars used to provide Transportation Demand Management ("TDM") programming; and WHEREAS , City staff, in working with the North Front Range Transportation and Air Quality Planning Council, has successfully petitioned for and received approval to de-program the original 2007 TDM Congestion and Mitigation Air Quality ("CMAQ") funds to be reallocated to fund the following three programs managed by Transit Services : ( 1 ) Bicycle Coordinator Program; (2) Transfort Test Ride Marketing Program; and (3 ) Transfort New Fixed Routes Marketing; and WHEREAS , the Colorado Department of Transportation ("CDOT") approved a total of $249, 883 in CMAQ for the following programs : Bicycle Coordinator Program - to promote bicycle use within the City $ 35 ,000 Transfort Test Ride Marketing Program - to promote transit use among the City ' s largest employers 701000 Transfort New Fixed Route Marketing Program - promote and increase public awareness of the new fixed routes 144, 883 Total $ 2495883 WHEREAS , a portion of the aforementioned federal funds, totaling $ 16, 173 , has already been appropriated in the 2007 budget established for the Bicycle Coordinator Program; and WHEREAS , no additional matching funds are required as the City' s share is being met from existing appropriations within the Transit Services Fund; 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 current estimate of actual and anticipated revenues to be received during the fiscal year; and WHEREAS , City staff has determined that the appropriation of the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Grant funds, administered through the Colorado Department of Transportation, will not cause the total amount appropriated in the Transit Services Fund Bicycle Coordinator, Transfort Test Marketing, and Transfort New Fixed Route Marketing programs to exceed the current estimate of actual and anticipated revenues to be received during the fiscal year; and WHEREAS , it is the desire of the Council to appropriate the sum of $233 ,710 in Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality funds in the Transit Services Fund to be used to : promote bicycle use within the City ($ 18 , 827) ; promote transit use among the City' s largest employers ($70,000) ; and increase public awareness of the new transit fixed routes available in 2007 ($ 144,883 ) . 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 Transit Services Fund - Bicycle Coordinator program the sum of EIGHTEEN THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED TWENTY-SEVEN DOLLARS ($ 18, 827)), representing Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality funds, administered by the Colorado Department of Transportation, to be used to promote bicycle use within the City. Section 2 . That there is hereby appropriated for expenditure from unanticipated revenue in the Transit Services Fund - Transfort Test Ride Marketing program the sum of SEVENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($70,000)), representing Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality funds, administered by the Colorado Department of Transportation, to be used to promote transit use among the City ' s largest employers . Section 3 . That there is hereby appropriated for expenditure from unanticipated revenue in the Transit Services Fund - Transfort New Fixed Route Marketing program the sum of ONE HUNDRED FORTY-FOUR THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED EIGHTY-THREE DOLLARS ($ 144, 883 ), representing Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality funds, administered by the Colorado Department of Transportation, to be used to increase public awareness transit use among the City ' s largest employers. Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this I st day of May, A.D . 2007, and to be presented for final passage on the 15th day of May, A.D . 2007 . Mayor ATTEST : City Clerk -2- Passed and adopted on final reading on the 15th day of May, A.D . 2007 . Mayor ATTEST : City Clerk -3 -