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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - SUMMARY AGENDA - 04/02/2013 - SUMMARY AGENDAKaren Weitkunat, Mayor Kelly Ohlson, District 5, Mayor Pro Tem Council Chambers Ben Manvel, District 1 City Hall West Lisa Poppaw, District 2 300 LaPorte Avenue Aislinn Kottwitz, District 3 Wade Troxell, District 4 Cablecast on City Cable Channel 14 Gerry Horak, District 6 on the Comcast cable system Darin Atteberry, City Manager Steve Roy, City Attorney Wanda Nelson, City Clerk The City of Fort Collins will make reasonable accommodations for access to City services, programs, and activities and will make special communication arrangements for persons with disabilities. Assisted hearing devices are available to the public for Council meetings. Please call 221-6515 (TDD 224-6001) for assistance. REGULAR MEETING April 2, 2013 Proclamations and Presentations 5:30 p.m. none. Regular Meeting 6:00 p.m. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE 1. CALL MEETING TO ORDER. 2. ROLL CALL. Page 2 3. AGENDA REVIEW: • City Manager Review of Agenda. 4. CITIZEN PARTICIPATION 5. CITIZEN PARTICIPATION FOLLOW-UP This is an opportunity for the Mayor or Councilmembers to follow-up on issues raised during Citizen Participation. 6. Staff Reports. 7. Councilmember Reports. DISCUSSION ITEMS The method of debate for discussion items is as follows: ! Mayor introduces the item number and subject; asks if formal presentation will be made by staff ! Staff presentation (optional) ! Mayor requests citizen comment on the item (five-minute limit for each citizen) ! Council questions of staff on the item ! Council motion on the item ! Council discussion ! Final Council comments ! Council vote on the item Note: Time limits for individual agenda items may be revised, at the discretion of the Mayor, to ensure all citizens have an opportunity to speak. Please sign in at the table in the back of the room. The timer will buzz when there are 30 seconds left and the light will turn yellow. It will buzz again at the end of the speaker’s time. Individuals who wish to make comments regarding items remaining on the Consent Calendar or wish to address the Council on items not specifically scheduled on the agenda must first be recognized by the Mayor or Mayor Pro Tem. Before speaking, please sign in at the table in the back of the room. The timer will buzz once when there are 30 seconds left and the light will turn yellow. The timer will buzz again at the end of the speaker’s time. Each speaker is allowed 5 minutes. If there are more than 6 individuals who wish to speak, the Mayor may reduce the time allowed for each individual. Speakers are asked to: ! State your name and address for the record. ! Keep comments brief; if available, provide a written copy of statement to City Clerk. ! Address your comments to Council, not the audience. ! Promptly cease your comments when the allotted time expires. ! You may not yield part or all of your time to another and another speaker will not be credited with time requested but not used by you. ! Applause, outbursts or other demonstrations by the audience are not allowed. Page 3 8. Items Relating to an Agreement Between the City of Fort Collins, the Fort Collins Downtown Development Authority, and Woodward, Inc. Relating to the Relocation and Construction of the Company’s Headquarters and Expanding its Manufacturing and Office Facilities. (staff: Darin Atteberry, Bruce Hendee, Josh Birks, Mike Beckstead; 5 minute staff presentation; 30 minute discussion) A. Second Reading of Ordinance No. 055, 2013, Authorizing and Approving the Execution and Delivery by the City of an Agreement with Woodward, Inc., and Related Documents, Including Authorizing the Issuance of a Bond, in Connection with an Economic Development Project Relating to Woodward, Inc.; and Providing Other Matters Related Thereto. B. Second Reading of Ordinance No 056, 2013, Appropriating General Fund Reserves to Fund a Reimbursement Reserve Fund in Connection with an Agreement Between the City, Downtown Development Authority and Woodward, Inc., Regarding the Link-n-greens Development. These Ordinances relate to providing business investment assistance to Woodward, Inc. to encourage the relocation and construction of the company’s headquarters and expanding its manufacturing facilities in Fort Collins. The project will retain or create between 1,400 and 1,700 primary jobs in the community, provide 31 acres of improved open space along the river (including habitat restoration), and anchor the southeastern edge of the River District with a major employer. The two items include: A. An Agreement between the City, Downtown Development Authority, and Woodward, Inc.; and B. An appropriation of $2.27 million in General Fund Reserves in connection with the Agreement with Woodward, Inc. Ordinance No. 055, 2013 was adopted on First Reading on March 26, 2013, by a vote of 6-1 (Nays: Ohlson). This Ordinance has been amended on Second Reading to remove a “Whereas clause” in response to Council comments on First Reading. Ordinance No. 056, 2013 was unanimously adopted on First Reading. 9. Second Reading of Ordinance No. 044, 2013, Authorizing the Conveyance to Woodward, Inc. of Two Non-Exclusive Permanent Drainage Easements and a Temporary Construction Easement on City- Owned Property. (staff: Jon Haukaas, Daylan Figgs, Helen Matson; no staff presentation; 5 minute discussion) The proposed Woodward Link-N-Greens Campus (“Woodward”) will be a master-planned campus providing the ability to retain and grow primary jobs for the community. The campus will accommodate Woodward’s continued growth of its current operations in Fort Collins. It also includes adjacent commercial services that can be used by Woodward employees and the public with close access to downtown and the Mulberry corridor. The planned campus will help to improve the river corridor through the site including restoration of the natural river corridor landscape, habitat, and appropriate recreation opportunities. For this development, Woodward has requested that the City grant Woodward two permanent drainage easements for stormwater flows, one which would include construction of a buried drainage pipe and the other for a graded swale. In addition, a temporary construction easement is needed for grading, landscaping, and associated restoration work on City-owned property adjacent to the Poudre River. This Ordinance, unanimously adopted on First Reading on March 26, 2013, authorizes the conveyance of the requested easements. 10. Other Business. 11. Adjournment. Page 4 Every Council meeting will end no later than 10:30 p.m., except that: (1) any item of business commenced before 10:30 p.m. may be concluded before the meeting is adjourned and (2) the City Council may, by majority vote, extend a meeting until no later than 12:00 a.m. for the purpose of considering additional items of business. Any matter which has been commenced and is still pending at the conclusion of the Council meeting, and all matters scheduled for consideration at the meeting which have not yet been considered by Council, will be continued to the next regular Council meeting and will be placed first on the discussion agenda for such meeting.