HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 07/17/2012 - FIRST READING OF ORDINANCE NO. 062, 2012, APPROPRIDATE: July 17, 2012
STAFF: Ron Kechter
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY
FORT COLLINS CITY COUNCIL 17
SUBJECT
First Reading of Ordinance No. 062, 2012, Appropriating Unanticipated Revenue in the Capital Projects Fund for the
Fort Collins Museum of Discovery Science Center Exhibits Project.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This Ordinance appropriates $135,249 of Non-Profit Partner revenue, raised through fundraising efforts, to be used
to construct exhibit walls and the digital dome infrastructure at the Fort Collins Museum of Discovery.
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 $135,249 raised through fundraising efforts and the partnership would like to
appropriate the $135,249 into the Museum Capital Exhibits Project. This money will be used to build exhibit walls and
digital dome infrastructure 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.
FINANCIAL / ECONOMIC IMPACTS
This Ordinance appropriates $135,249 from the Non-Profit Partner for the Museum Capital Exhibits Project.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading.
ORDINANCE NO. 062, 2012
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED REVENUE IN THE CAPITAL
PROJECTS FUND FOR THE FORT COLLINS MUSEUM OF
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
of 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, the non-profit partner has raised $135,249 through fund raising efforts and
would like to appropriate this money into the Exhibits capital project to build exhibit walls and
digital dome infrastructure; 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 ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-FIVE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED FORTY-NINE
DOLLARS ($135,249) for expenditure on the Building on Basics - Fort Collins Museum of
Discovery Science Center Exhibits Project.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 17th day of
July, A.D. 2012, and to be presented for final passage on the 21st day of August, A.D. 2012.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading on the 21st day of August, A.D. 2012.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Clerk