HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 09/04/2001 - ITEMS RELATING TO THE MULBERRY STREET (SH14) BICYC AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY
DATE: September 4, 2001 ITEM NUMBER: 19 A-B
FORT COLLINS CITY COUNCIL
STAFF: Kathleen Reavis
SUBJECT:
Items Relating to the Mulberry Street (SH14) Bicycle/Pedestrian Bridge Project.
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends adoption of the Resolution and the Ordinance on First Reading.
FIN IiC aAl appMPACT: totaling $385,730, are needed to complete construction of the bicycle/pedestrian bridge across
the Poudre River on the south side of Mulberry Street, and to complete the bicycle/pedestrian connection from Riverside
Avenue to Lemay Avenue. The Colorado Department of Transportation has made available an additional $210,000 for
this project from its Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality(CMAQ)program. The following is a summary of the federal
and local portions for these funds:
'ederal funds $210,000
ity's Local Match $175,730
otal Appropriation Needed: $385,730
Transportation Services intends to use Transportation Reserves to cover the local match portion of this project. The total
funds available for this project, including this additional $385,730 is $998,007.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
A. Resolution 200 1-110 Authorizing the Mayor to Enter into a Contract with the Colorado
Department of Transportation for Partial Construction Funding of the Mulberry Street
Bicycle/Pedestrian Bridge Project.
B. First Reading of Ordinance No. 140, 2001, Appropriating Unanticipated Revenue and
Prior Year Reserves in the Transportation Services Fund to be Used to Complete
Construction of a Bicycle/Pedestrian Bridge Over the Poudre River, Completing the
Bicycle/Pedestrian Connection from Riverside to Lemay Along State Highway 14.
The City has received a funding letter from Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT)
allowing for additional funding to be added to the State Highway 14 and Lemay Avenue
Intersection project. The bridge will be constructed over the Poudre River on the south side of
the Mulberry Street (SH14) vehicular bridge and the sidewalk will be extended from Lemay to
Riverside.
Design work has been completed and these funds would be added to the construction budget for
this project. In addition to the bridge, the City is also constructing sidewalk along the south side
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of Mulberry Street in order to provide a safe and direct bicycle/pedestrian connection from
Riverside Avenue to Lemay Avenue.
The project will be completed, however, it is possible that the requested appropriation could
change between first and second readings of this ordinance, pending further discussions with the
Colorado Department of Transportation.
BACKGROUND:
This bicycle/pedestrian bridge and sidewalk project was originally part of the Mulberry/Lemay
intersection project and was funded by CMAQ funds as well as a contribution from the
Mulberry-Lemay Crossing. This bicycle/pedestrian project was part of the development
approval process in order to provide connectivity from the neighborhoods on the west side of the
Poudre River to the new Wal-Mart shopping center as well as to other locations along the
Mulberry corridor. When the decision was made to proceed with the conventional, signalized
intersection design, the developer's contractor(s)took over the intersection improvement project.
City staff retained the bicycle/pedestrian improvement project along Mulberry and has completed
the design work for this project. The project is ready to proceed to construction and will be
completed by late 2001.
The Mulberry pedestrian/bicycle improvements will not impact the recent roadway and
intersection improvements that are being constructed as part of the Mulberry-Lemay Crossing
project.
RESOLUTION 2001-110
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO ENTER INTO A CONTRACT WITH
THE COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION FOR
PARTIAL CONSTRUCTION FUNDING OF THE MULBERRY STREET
BICYCLEIPEDESTRIAN BRIDGE PROJECT
WHEREAS,pursuant to the Transportation Equity Act of the 21 st Century of 1998,certain
funds have been allocated for highway projects, under the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality
(CMAQ)program,that have been proposed by the Colorado Department of Transportation(CDOT)
and approved by the Federal Highway Administration; and
WHEREAS, certain CMAQ Project funds are made available only for eligible 'congestion
mitigation and air quality improvement" and those activities are defined in§23 U.S.C. 101(a); and
WHEREAS,the City has requested of CDOT that the Mulberry Street Bicycle/Pedestrian
Bridge Project (the "Project") be funded in part under the CMAQ program, as a congestion
mitigation and air quality activity; and
WHEREAS, federal funds have been made available for the Project for the construction of
the bicycle/pedestrian bridge; and
WHEREAS, CDOT has presented to the City for execution a congestion mitigation and air
quality contract for the purpose of providing partial funding for the Project,the total cost of which
project is estimated to be $998,007 to be funded with federal participating funds in the amount of
$173,859 and with City participating funds in the amount of$36,141; and
WHEREAS, the Council has determined that it is in the best interests of the City that the
proposed congestion mitigation and air quality contract as above-described be entered into between
the City and CDOT.
NOW,THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS that the Mayor be, and hereby is,authorized to execute a congestion mitigation and air
quality contract between the City and the Colorado Department of Transportation for the purpose
of providing partial funding for the construction of the Project,with said contract to provide federal
participating funds in the sum of ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY-THREE THOUSAND EIGHT
HUNDRED FIFTY-NINE DOLLARS ($173,859) and City participating funds in the sum of
THIRTY-SIX THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED FORTY-ONE DOLLARS ($36,141) for a total
amount of TWO HUNDRED TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS ($210,000).
Passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council held this 4th day of September,
A.D. 2001.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk
ORDINANCE NO. 140, 2001
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED REVENUE AND PRIOR YEAR RESERVES
IN THE TRANSPORTATION SERVICES FUND TO BE USED TO COMPLETE
CONSTRUCTION OF A BICYCLE/PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE OVER THE POUDRE RIVER
COMPLETING THE BICYCLE/PEDESTRIAN CONNECTION
FROM RIVERSIDE TO LEMAY ALONG STATE HIGHWAY 14
WHEREAS,in the fall of 1999,the City applied for and received a grant from the Colorado
Department of Transportation("CDOT")for Congestion Mitigation&Air Quality("CMAQ")funds
for the purpose of providing an alternative analysis of intersection improvements and construction
of those improvements as determined at State Highway 14 and Lemay Avenue; and
WHEREAS, the scope of the improvements scheduled for the aforementioned project
included the design and construction of a bicycle/pedestrian bridge across the Poudre River,on the
south side of Mulberry Street (State Highway 14), completing the bicycle/pedestrian connection
from Riverside Avenue to Lemay Avenue; and
WHEREAS,the estimated cost to design and construct the bicycle/pedestrian bridge across
the Poudre River and complete the existing bicycle/pedestrian connection from Riverside Avenue
to Lemay Avenue is $998,007; and
WHEREAS, additional appropriations, totaling $385,730 are needed to complete the
aforementioned improvements; and
WHEREAS,the Colorado Department of Transportation(CDOT)has made available to the
City of Fort Collins, Congestion Mitigation & Air Quality funds in the amount of$210,000, to be
used for the completion of a bicycle/pedestrian bridge across the Poudre River and complete the
bicycle/pedestrian connection from Riverside Avenue to Lemay Avenue ; and
WHEREAS, local matching funds needed,totaling$175,730,have been identified,and are
available in the form of prior year reserves in the Transportation Services Fund; and
WHEREAS, the City Council adopted Resolution 2001-110, on September 4, 2001,
authorizing the City to enter into an intergovernmental agreement with CDOT for the receipt of
Congestion Mitigation & Air Quality funds to be used to complete construction of the
bicycle/pedestrian bridge across the Poudre River on the south side of Mulberry Street and complete
the bicycle/pedestrian connection from Riverside Avenue to Lemay Avenue; and
WHEREAS, Article V, Section 9, of the Charter of the City of Fort Collins(the "Charter")
permits 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,do not exceed the then current estimate of actual and
anticipated revenues to be received during the fiscal year; and
WHEREAS,Article V,Section 9,of the Charter also permits the City 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 the sum of$210,000 in Colorado
Department of Transportation Congestion Mitigation&Air Quality funds,and$175,730 from prior
year reserves in the Transportation Services Fund to be used to complete construction of the
bicycle/pedestrian bridge across the Poudre River on the south side of Mulberry Street and complete
the bicycle/pedestrian connection from Riverside Avenue to Lemay Avenue.
NOW,THEREFORE,BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS as follows:
Section 1. That there is hereby appropriated for expenditure from unanticipated revenue
in the Transportation Services Fund,State Highway 14 and Lemay Avenue Intersection project,the
sum of TWO HUNDRED TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS ($210,000) from Colorado Department
of Transportation Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality funds,to be used to complete construction
of the bicycle/pedestrian bridge across the Poudre River on the south side of Mulberry Street and
complete the bicycle/pedestrian connection from Riverside Avenue to Lemay Avenue.
Section 2. That there is hereby appropriated from prior year reserves in the
Transportation Services Fund, State Highway 14 and Lemay Avenue Intersection project,the sum
of ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY-FIVE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED THIRTY DOLLARS
($175,730)to be used to complete construction of the bicycle/pedestrian bridge across the Poudre
River on the south side of Mulberry Street and complete the bicycle/pedestrian connection from
Riverside Avenue to Lemay Avenue.
Introduced and considered favorably on first reading and ordered published this 4th day of
September, A.D. 2001, and to be presented for final passage on the 18th day of September, A.D.
2001.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading this 18th day of September, A.D. 2001.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk
COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY:
CONTRACT FUNDING INCREASE/DECREASE AND APPROVAL LETTER State Controller Policy letter on June 12, 1996
Region: Complete section 1 and submit to CDOT Controller's office CDOT Controller letter on May 23, 1996.
This form to be used for the following contracts/situations only(check the appropriate situation):
indefinite quantity, order moreladd more utility/railroad, underestimated total cost
CDOT construction, sum o{CMO's X LA construction, underestimated cost
COOT construction, underestimated total cost CDOT consultant, underestimated cost
SECTION 1 (Region use)
Date July 26, 2001 Project code: 12900
To: COOT Controller(FAX#(303)757-9573 or e-mail CONTROLLER) Project# ACC 455-049
From Pete Graham Office: Loveland Residency Phone# FAX#
Region # 4 970-667-4670 970-669-0289
CDOT has executed a contract with: The City of Fort Collins
Address: PO Box 580
Fort Collins, Colorado 80521
FEIN# Contract routing# COFRS encumbrance#(Indicate PO,SC or PG#)
846000587 00-HA4-00033 HAA PO 129004
Fund Orgn. T01
Prgrm. Func. Object/Subobj NIP GBL Reporting Catg. Prof/Sub/Phase
400 9991 2000 3301 23121 P 4310 12900 OOC
Original contract amount Has a Budget Request been processed to cover the contract amount increase?
S 1,296,584.00 x! Yes No
'revious Funding Letter(s)total Preparer's name Pete Graham
g letter #1 thru # ) PHONE NO: 970-667-4670 ext.5128
unding Letter total Contract Administrator's/Business Manager's Approval
$ 210,000.00
(# ) PHONE NO:
adjusted contract amount COOT Designee Approval
S 1,506,584.00
Local Agency approval
SECTION 2 Controller's Office use)
"otal allotment amount Commission budget
S $
f construction: CE charges Indirect chgs Adjusted contract amount plus total CE&
CE pool elig. Indirect charges calculation $
have reviewed the financial status of the project,organization,grant and have determined that sufficient funds are available to cover
its increase,effective as of (show date)
Mate Controller or Delegee Date
COOT Form#1186a
7/97