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Home My WebLink AboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 09/17/2002 - FIRST READING OF ORDINANCE NO. 138, 2002, APPROPRI AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY ITEM NUMBER: 22 FORT COLLINS CITY COUNCIL DATE: September 17, 2002 STAFF: Matt Baker SUBJECT: First Reading of Ordinance No. 138, 2002, Appropriating Prior Year Reserves in the Street Oversizing Fund For Transfer to the Capital Projects Fund-Lemay Avenue,Fossil Creek Bridge to Trilby Road Capital Project to Survey Existing Utilities for the Design of Roadway Improvements on Lemay Avenue from the Fossil Creek Bridge to Trilby Road. RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading. i i FINANCIAL IMPACT: This Ordinance appropriates and transfers $35,600 from the Street Oversizing Fund Prior Year Reserves to the Capital Projects Fund to survey existing utilities for the design or roadway improvements on Lemay Avenue from Trilby to Fossil Creek. This utility survey will go out to bid as soon as funds are available. This will not affect the Street Oversizing Program's ability to meet its other construction obligations in 2002. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Street Oversizing Program, in conjunction with the City's construction of Fossil Creek Community Park, is completing the engineering design of Lemay Avenue from the Fossil Creek bridge (near Muirfield Way)to Trilby Road. Lemay Avenue will be widened to a four lane arterial with curb and gutter, landscaped medians,bike lanes and sidewalks. A pedestrian underpass for the Fossil Creek Recreation Trail will cross Lemay Avenue as part of this project. The engineering design is 80% complete for Lemay Avenue. However, numerous utility concerns between the pedestrian tunnel, existing 24" waterline, existing electrical duct banks, existing fiber optic data lines and the road widening, make construction tolerances extremely tight and with little margin for error. To address these utility concerns, staff is recommending that a contractor be hired to do a utility survey to verify the actual locations of the utilities and incorporate them into the design plans. The completion of this survey will result in a more accurate design and reduce utility relocations. This will in turn reduce construction costs and field change orders and realize significant savings to the project. This ordinance is required to appropriate prior year reserves in the Street Oversizing Fund for transfer into the Capital Projects fund. i ORDINANCE NO. 138, 2002 OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS APPROPRIATING PRIOR YEAR RESERVES IN THE STREET OVERSIZING FUND FOR TRANSFER TO THE CAPITAL PROJECTS FUND - LEMAY AVENUE, FOSSIL CREEK BRIDGE TO TRILBY ROAD CAPITAL PROJECT TO SURVEY EXISTING UTILITIES FOR THE DESIGN OF ROADWAY IMPROVEMENTS ON LEMAY AVENUE FROM THE FOSSIL CREEK BRIDGE TO TRILBY ROAD WHEREAS,improvements are needed at Lemay Avenue from the Fossil Creek Bridge(near Muirfield Way) south to Trilby Road, in order to mitigate traffic impacts resulting from increased development in this area, including the building of Fossil Creek Community Park; and WHEREAS, City staff is recommending that such improvements include widening this stretch of Lemay Avenue to a four-lane arterial with curb and gutter,landscaped medians,bike lanes and sidewalk (the "Project"); and WHEREAS, City staff has identified numerous utility concerns related to the Project, between the proposed road widening and the pedestrian tunnel, an existing 24-inch waterline, existing electrical duct banks, and existing fiber optic data lines, that should be verified and incorporated into the final design plans for the Project improvements; and WHEREAS, a utility survey is needed, at a cost of$35,600, to verify the actual locations of utilities and to incorporate the locations in the final Project design, thereby reducing Project construction costs and field change orders; and WHEREAS,funding for the utility survey is available and has been identified from prior year reserves in the Street Oversizing Fund; and WHEREAS, Article V, Section 9, of the Charter of the City of Fort Collins (the "Charter") permits the 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 $35,600 from prior year reserves in the Street Oversizing Fund and to authorize the transfer of said amount to the Capital Projects Fund-Lemay Avenue,Fossil Creek Bridge to Trilby Road capital project,for appropriation therein, to be used for a utility survey associated with the Lemay Avenue,Fossil Creek Bridge to Trilby Road project. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS that there is hereby appropriated from prior year reserves in the Street Oversizing Fund the sum of THIRTY-FIVE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS ($35,600) for transfer to the Capital Projects Fund - Lemay Avenue, Fossil Creek Bridge to Trilby Road capital projects to be used for a utility survey associated with the Lemay Avenue, Fossil Creek Bridge to Trilby Road project. Introduced and considered favorably on first reading and ordered published this 17th day of September, A.D. 2002, and to be presented for final passage on the I st day of October, A.D. 2002. Mayor ATTEST: City Clerk Passed and adopted on final reading this Ist day of October, A.D. 2002. Mayor ATTEST: City Clerk VICINITY MAP LEMAY AVENUE WIDENING AND REALIGNMENT UTILITY SURVEY HARMONY ROAD -Ul z J Z W W Z a o Q CQ O C fY w NORTHER LU W • w LIMIT J � UJ U FOSSIL m CREEK COMMUNITY SOUTHRIDGE PARK GOLF CLUB 80� TRILBY ROA SOUTHERN IMITS DESCRIPTION OF WORK THE SURVEY SHALL BE CONDUCTED BETWEEN TRILBY ROAD TO THE SOUTH AND FOSSIL CREEK TO THE NORTH ALONG LEMAY AVENUES FUTURE ROADWAY ALIGNMENT