HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 09/17/2013 - FIRST READING OF ORDINANCE NO. 126, 2013, AUTHORIZDATE: September 17, 2013
STAFF: Gerry Paul
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY
FORT COLLINS CITY COUNCIL 11
SUBJECT
First Reading of Ordinance No. 126, 2013, Authorizing the Purchasing Agent to Enter into an Agreement for the
Financing by Lease-Purchase of Vehicles and Equipment.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The purpose of this item is to request approval of an agreement for the lease-purchase of vehicles and equipment for
the cost of $911,887. Payments under the agreement at the 2.28% interest rate will not exceed $193,489 in 2014.
Money for 2014 lease-purchase payments is included in the 2014 budget. The effect of the debt position for the
purpose of financial rating of the City will be to raise the total City debt by 0.67%. A competitive process was used to
select Pinnacle Public Finance for this lease. A 2013 Finance Department analysis of current and historical equipment
lease financing arrangements showed that lease-purchase is in the best interest of the City given the normal spread
between lease rate and reinvestment rate. Staff believes acceptance of this lease rate is in the City's best interest.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading.
BACKGROUND / DISCUSSION
This Ordinance authorizes the Purchasing Agent to enter into a lease-purchase financing agreement with Pinnacle
Public Finance at 2.28 % interest rate. The agreement is for an original term from the execution date of the agreement
to the end of the current fiscal year. The agreement provides for renewable one-year terms thereafter, to a total term
of five (5) years, subject to annual appropriation of funds needed for lease payments. The total lease terms, including
the original and all renewal terms, will not exceed the useful life of the property. This lease-purchase financing is
consistent with the financial policies of the City of Fort Collins.
All equipment shall be purchased following the City's purchasing ordinances and procedures to ensure that the City
realizes all cost savings.
The vehicles and equipment financed under the agreement will comply with applicable City policies, and will be in
accordance with the goal of optimizing City resources without impacting service to the community.
An "Equipment Request" justifying the replacement of each vehicle or piece of fleet equipment is on file with Fleet
Services. The fleet manager has researched each request, and approved them based on current and projected
maintenance costs, fuel economy, downtime, and relevant safety factors. Other equipment purchases have been
approved in accordance with departmental procedures.
FINANCIAL / ECONOMIC IMPACTS
Lease-Purchase: The City's lease-purchase policy provides that:
The City of Fort Collins uses lease-purchase for the provision of new and replacement equipment,
vehicles and rolling stock in order to ensure the timely replacement of equipment and vehicles. This
method may also be used to acquire real property. Members of the management staff have
developed an equipment needs schedule for rolling stock which encompasses the demands of
operating departments. This schedule is used to project equipment needs for each budget year.
The type of lease that the City uses is termed a conditional sales lease. With each rental payment the City builds
equity and assumes risk in the asset over the term of the lease. The annual installments are subject to appropriation
by the Council each year.
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Advantages of a lease-purchase over a cash purchase are:
• Decreasing the impact of inflation on the purchase of new and replacement equipment.
• Resolving the problem of capital replacement needs backlog.
• Conserving operating reserves.
• Reducing the initial impact of the cost to user departments by enabling costs to be spread over the useful life
of the equipment.
• Safeguarding the opportunity to use cash assets to earn higher interest than the interest cost of lease-
purchasing.
It should be noted that the City is able to discontinue the equipment leases so that future City Councils will have the
option to continue or discontinue the policy of lease-purchasing City equipment.
A 2013 Finance Department analysis of current and historical equipment lease financing arrangements showed that
lease-purchase is in the best interest of the City given the normal spread between lease rate and reinvestment rate.
According to Section 29-1-103 C.R.S., local governments are required to identify as part of their budgets: (1) the total
expenditures during the ensuing fiscal year for all lease purchase agreements involving real and personal property;
and (2) the total maximum payment liability under all lease purchase agreements over the entire terms of the
agreements, including all optional renewal terms.
Staff recognizes that the State does not include lease-purchase in the legal definition of debt; however, rating agencies
include lease-purchases in calculating the City's debt burden.
The proposed Ordinance authorizes the lease-purchase financing of the following:
Streets
2011 Power Screen Chieftain 1400 1 79,200.00
7.6 yard Spreader and Tanks 1 45,609.00
Single Axle CNG Truck 1 130,000.00
6.6 yard Spreader and Tanks 1 50,099.00
Replacement Spreaders 3 56,199.00
Replacement Snow Plows 3 58,395.00
Transportation Fund Total: 419,502.00
Forestry
Variable Message Board 1 7,000.00
Forestry Equipment Total: 7,000.00
Patrol - New Officer Vehicles
Dodge Journey 1 20,410.00
Dodge Charger 1 23,902.00
Ford Police Interceptor FWD 1 26,263.00
Ford Police Interceptor FWD 1 25,603.00
Police Vehicle equipment 1 lot 27,275.00
Patrol New Officer Vehicle Total: 123,453.00
Investigations - New Officer Vehicle
Chevy Silverado 1500 4x4 1 28,318.00
Investigation New Officer Vehicle Total: 28,318.00
General Fund Total: 158,771.00
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Information Technology
Dell Latitude E6430 Notebook 50 56,707.00
Docks – Latitude 50 7,500.00
Optiplex 7010 Desktop 200 179,476.00
Precision T3600 30 38,091.00
Logitech Keyboards 280 3,092.00
Panasonic C-53 Toughbooks 30 48,748.00
Data & Communications Fund Total: 333,614.00
Lease Total: 911,887.00
Departments have appropriately justified the purchase of all new replacement vehicles and equipment. Information
on replacement units is given below.
The Operations Services Director has determined that the following units meet requirements for replacement. These
units are included in the financing list, above.
Department Old unit: Age:
Miles /
hours: New unit:
Disposal
of old
unit: Notes:
Streets
Spreaders
for units
2281, 2747
and 23021
16+
years
27082S,
27079S and
23021S
Auction /
recycle Due for replacement
Streets
Plows for
units 2281,
2747 ad
23021
16+
years
27079P,
27082P and
23021P
Auction/
recycle Due for replacement
Note on usage: Units will accumulate additional miles/hours between now and when replacement
vehicles arrive.
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
Due to improvements in emissions and engine technology, new vehicles and equipment will use less fuel and produce
fewer emissions than the units being replaced.
The new officers to be added by Police were approved by Council and vehicles must be added to accommodate the
increase in staffing levels. Those vehicles are as fuel efficient as can be provided pursuant to the needs of patrol and
investigation officers.
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ORDINANCE NO. 126, 2013
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
AUTHORIZING THE PURCHASING AGENT TO ENTER
INTO AN AGREEMENT FOR THE FINANCING BY
LEASE-PURCHASE OF VEHICLES AND EQUIPMENT
WHEREAS, the City has a need for and desires to provide certain real and personal
property for City purposes; and
WHEREAS, the City is authorized by the Colorado Constitution, Article XX, §6, its
home charter and Part 8 of Article 15 of Title 31, Colorado Revised Statutes, as amended (the
“Act”), to enter into rental or leasehold agreements in order to provide necessary land, buildings,
equipment and other property for governmental or proprietary purposes, and such agreements
may include options to purchase and acquire title to such leased or rented property; and
WHEREAS, the City has received a lease-purchase proposal from Pinnacle Public
Finance to lease equipment to the City, consisting of the following vehicles and equipment (the
“Equipment”):
Streets
2011 Power Screen Chieftain 1400 1 79,200.00
7.6 yard Spreader and Tanks 1 45,609.00
Single Axle CNG Truck 1 130,000.00
6.6 yard Spreader and Tanks 1 50,099.00
Replacement Spreaders 3 56,199.00
Replacement Snow Plows 3 58,395.00
Transportation Fund Total: 419,502.00
Forestry
Variable Message Board 1 7,000.00
Forestry Equipment Total: 7,000.00
Patrol - New Officer Vehicles
Dodge Journey 1 20,410.00
Dodge Charger 1 23,902.00
Ford Police Interceptor FWD 1 26,263.00
Ford Police Interceptor FWD 1 25,603.00
Police Vehicle equipment 1 lot 27,275.00
Patrol New Officer Vehicle Total: 123,453.00
Investigations - New Officer Vehicle
Chevy Silverado 1500 4x4 1 28,318.00
Investigation New Officer Vehicle Total: 28,318.00
General Fund Total: 158,771.00
Information Technology
Dell Latitude E6430 Notebook 50 56,707.00
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Docks – Latitude 50 7,500.00
Optiplex 7010 Desktop 200 179,476.00
Precision T3600 30 38,091.00
Logitech Keyboards 280 3,092.00
Panasonic C-53 Toughbooks 30 48,748.00
Data & Communications Fund Total: 333,614.00
Lease Total: 911,887.00
and;
WHEREAS, the City Council has determined that it is in the best interests of the City to
lease the above-described vehicles and equipment from Pinnacle Public Finance, which is also
providing financing for the Equipment acquisition; and
WHEREAS, the City desires to enter into a lease-purchase agreement with respect to the
leasing and financing of the Equipment; and
WHEREAS, the useful life of the Equipment is longer than the maximum lease-purchase
term of five years; and
WHEREAS, the City has determined that the lease payments to result from the proposed
arrangement will require payments by the City in the sum of $48,372.28 per quarter, and that
payments in that amount are reasonable and proper and represent the fair rental value of the
Equipment; and
WHEREAS, funds for the 2014 lease payments are included in the 2014 budget; and
WHEREAS, the lease of the Equipment will not constitute a “multiple-fiscal year direct
or indirect debt or other financial obligation” of the City within the meaning of Article X
§20(4)(b) of the Colorado Constitution and may therefore be entered into without voter approval;
and
WHEREAS, Article V, Section 9, of the City Charter permits the 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 previous appropriations
for that fiscal year, does not exceed the then current estimate of actual and anticipated revenues
to be received during the fiscal year.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
FORT COLLINS as follows:
Section 1. That the Purchasing Agent is hereby authorized to enter into a lease-
purchase agreement for the above-described Equipment with Pinnacle Public Finance in
accordance with the following terms and provisions:
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a. The agreement shall be for an original term from the execution date of the
agreement through and including December 31, 2014. The agreement
shall provide for renewable one-year terms thereafter up to a total term of
five years, subject to annual appropriation of funds needed for lease
payments. The total lease terms, including the original and all renewal
terms, shall not exceed the useful life of the property.
b. The City shall make equal quarterly payments throughout the term of such
agreement but subject to annual appropriation of funds needed for such
payments.
c. If the City leases the Equipment for the original term and all renewal
terms, the payment to Pinnacle Public Finance will total the sum of the
principal not to exceed $911,887.00, plus interest at a fixed rate equal to
2.28% per year, which is a reasonable amount.
d. The City shall have the option to purchase part or all of the Equipment on
the date of any scheduled quarterly payment during any term. The option
to purchase shall be exercised by paying the quarterly payment due on said
date and any remaining unpaid principal due after said date as to any or all
of the Equipment.
e. If the City renews the agreement for all renewal terms and makes all
payments during said terms, the City shall be deemed to have exercised
the option to purchase said Equipment.
f. The agreement shall constitute only a current expense of the City and shall
not be construed to be a debt or pledge of the City's credit or revenues.
Section 2. That the amount of Four Hundred Nineteen Thousand, Five Hundred and
Two Dollars ($419,502) to be provided under the lease-purchase agreement is hereby
appropriated for expenditure in the Transportation Fund from unanticipated revenue in the
appropriate funds for the acquisition of vehicles and equipment in accordance with the terms and
provisions of the lease-purchase agreement, upon receipt thereof.
Section 3. That the amount of One Hundred Fifty-Eight Thousand, Seven Hundred
and Seventy-One Dollars ($158,771) to be provided under the lease-purchase agreement is
hereby appropriated for expenditure in the General Fund from unanticipated revenue in the
appropriate funds for the acquisition of equipment in accordance with the terms and provisions
of the lease-purchase agreement, upon receipt thereof.
Section 4. That the amount of Three Hundred Thirty-Three Thousand, Six Hundred
and Fourteen Dollars ($333,614) to be provided under the lease-purchase agreement is hereby
appropriated for expenditure in the Data & Communications Fund from unanticipated revenue in
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the appropriate funds for the acquisition of equipment in accordance with the terms and
provisions of the lease-purchase agreement, upon receipt thereof.
Section 5. Any inconsistency between the provisions of this Ordinance and those of
the Act is intended by the City Council. To the extent of any such inconsistency the provisions
of this Ordinance shall be deemed made pursuant to the home rule charter of the City and shall
supersede, to the extent permitted by law, the conflicting provisions of the Act.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 17th day of
September, A.D. 2013, and to be presented for final passage on the 1st day of October, A.D.
2013.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading this 1st day of October, A.D. 2013.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Clerk