HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 04/17/2012 - SECOND READING OF ORDINANCE NO. 027, 2012, APPROPRDATE: April 17, 2012
STAFF: Cheryl Donaldson
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY
FORT COLLINS CITY COUNCIL 9
SUBJECT
Second Reading of Ordinance No. 027, 2012, Appropriating Unanticipated Revenue in the Capital Projects Fund for
the Fort Collins Museum/Discovery Science Center Exhibits Project.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Ordinance No. 027, 2012, unanimously adopted on First Reading on April 3, 2012, appropriates Non-Profit Partner
revenue of $225,000 into the Museum Exhibit Capital Project.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on Second Reading.
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DATE: April 3, 2012
STAFF: Cheryl Donaldson
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY
FORT COLLINS CITY COUNCIL 10
SUBJECT
First Reading of Ordinance No. 027, 2012, Appropriating Unanticipated Revenue in the Capital Projects Fund for the
Fort Collins Museum/Discovery Science Center Exhibits Project.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This Ordinance appropriates Non-Profit Partner revenue of $225,000 into the Museum Exhibit Capital Project.
BACKGROUND / DISCUSSION
The Fort Collins Museum and Discovery Science Center (the Non-Profit Partner) entered into a partnership in 2008
to design and construct a new museum facility. The exhibit design company, Gyroscope, Inc. was contracted through
the City’s competitive purchasing process with the total contract of $1.285 million shared equally between the City and
the Non-Profit Partner. The exhibit fabrication company, Art Guild, was contracted through the City’s competitive
purchasing process for the exhibit fabrication, which is underway. Staff is working with Art Guild to complete the first
two phases of museum exhibits with an opening date of November 10, 2012.
The Non-Profit Partner is providing the $225,000 raised through fundraising efforts and the partnership would like to
appropriate the $225,000 into the Museum Exhibit Capital Project. This money will be used to build exhibit enclosures
by the building contractor, Hensel Phelps. The appropriation is needed because the Partnership Agreement calls for
the project to follow the City’s purchasing requirements and the City holds the contract with Hensel Phelps. Museum
staff is looking at funding alternatives to pay for specialized lighting for the exhibits and may come back to City Council
in the near future with a request to use Museum reserves for this lighting.
FINANCIAL / ECONOMIC IMPACTS
This Ordinance appropriates $225,000 from the Non-Profit Partner for the Museum Exhibit Capital Project.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading.
ORDINANCE NO. 027, 2012
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED REVENUE IN THE CAPITAL
PROJECTS FUND FOR THE FORT COLLINS MUSEUM/DISCOVERY
SCIENCE CENTER EXHIBITS PROJECT
WHEREAS, in March 2008, the City and the Discovery Center, a Colorado non-profit
corporation, d/b/a Discovery Science Center (the “NPC”), now officially known as FCDM, Inc.,
entered into an operating agreement for the construction and operation of the Fort Collins
Museum/Discovery Science Center Project; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to the operating agreement, the cost of the exhibit design contract in
the amount of $1,285,000 is to be shared equally by the City and the NPC; and
WHEREAS, staff is working with the contractor to complete the first two phases of the
exhibits by the opening date of November 10, 2012; and
WHEREAS, funds in the amount of $225,000 have been provided by the NPC for exhibit
fabrication costs; and
WHEREAS, Article V, Section 9, of the City Charter authorizes 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 revenue as described
herein will not cause the total amount appropriated in the Capital Projects fund to exceed the current
estimate of actual and anticipated revenues to be received in that fund during any fiscal year.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS that there is hereby appropriated from unanticipated revenue in the Capital Projects Fund
the sum of TWO HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($225,000) for expenditure
on the Building on Basics - Fort Collins Museum/Discovery Science Center Joint Facility Exhibits
Project.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 3rd day of April,
A.D. 2012, and to be presented for final passage on the 17th day of April, A.D. 2012.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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Interim City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading on the 17th day of April, A.D. 2012.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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Interim City Clerk