HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 08/20/2002 - FIRST READING OF ORDINANCE NO. 113, 2002, APPROPRI AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY ITEM NUMBER: 21
DATE: August 20, 2002
FORT COLLINS CITY COUNCIL Ken Manson
STAFF: Carol Tunner
SUBJECT:
First Reading of Ordinance No. 113, 2002, Appropriating Unanticipated Grant Revenue in the
Capital Projects Fund - Major Building Maintenance Capital Project for the Purpose of
Rehabilitating the Interior of the Street Railway Car Barn at 300 North Howes Street.
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading.
FINANCIAL IMPACT:
The City has been awarded a federal grant from the TEA-21 Transportation Enhancement Funds
in FY2002-03 in the amount of $90,400 for interior rehabilitation work at the historic Street
Railway Car Barn at 330 North Howes Street. Operation Services will provide 20% matching
funds in the amount of $22,600 for a total project of $113,000. Grant cash match monies are
coming from Operation Services' Major Maintenance Capital Fund.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
This Ordinance appropriates unanticipated revenue in the amount of $90,400 to begin
rehabilitating the interior of the historic Street Railway Car Barn at 330 North Howes Street.
The City has owned this Car (Trolley) Barn since 1919. It is the last streetcar barn in Colorado
that is historically intact, inside as well as outside, and it is designated as a local Fort Collins
landmark.
The City of Fort Collins has been awarded a $90,400 federal grant from the TEA-21
Transportation Enhancement Funds in FY 02-03. The purpose of the grant is to begin
rehabilitating portions of the interior of the Car Barn, which may include: plumbing to ADA
standards for the existing restroom facility, partial heating, electrical service, a security system,
and interior restoration of the original railway office. TEA-21 grants are available for the
purpose of historic preservation, rehabilitation and operation of historic transportation buildings,
structures, or facilities, and for establishment of transportation museums which has been
suggested as a proposed future use for the car barn if the implementation funds became available
through grants.
DATE: August 20, 2002 2 I ITEM NUMBER: 21
The City's role is to: (1) be the grant applicant for the project; (2) contract with the Colorado
Department of Transportation to receive and administer the grant funds; (3) provide the cash
match; (4) to be the Project Manager for the Car Barn Rehabilitation; and (5) be responsible for
the use of the grant and cash match funds for the purposes of the grant.
ORDINANCE NO. 113, 2002
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED GRANT REVENUE IN THE
CAPITAL PROJECTS FUND - MAJOR BUILDING MAINTENANCE CAPITAL PROJECT
FOR THE PURPOSE OF REHABILITATING THE INTERIOR OF THE
STREET RAILWAY CAR BARN AT 300 NORTH HOWES STREET
WHEREAS,the City of Fort Collins owns a Street Railway Car(Trolley)Barn located at 300
North Howes Street; and
WHEREAS, on September 15, 1992, City Council adopted Ordinance No. 95, 1992,
designating the main section of the Street Railway Car Barn and a portion of the south addition
located at 300 North Howes Street in Fort Collins, as an historic landmark pursuant to Chapter 14
of the Code of the City of Fort Collins; and
WHEREAS, on May 18, 1999, City Council adopted Ordinance No. 79, 1999, amending
Ordinance No. 95, 1992 to include the north and south additions to the building known as the Street
Railway Car Barn/Trolley Barn and any other portions of the building not originally designated as
an historical landmark; and
WHEREAS,the Colorado Department of Transportation("CDOT")has awarded the City of
Fort Collins$90,400, in the form of Transportation Equity Act for the 21"Century funds("TEA-21
Funds") to be used to begin rehabilitating portions of the interior of the car barn; and
WHEREAS, matching funds, in the amount of$22,600, are required to be provided by the
City, bringing the total Project cost to $113,000; and
WHEREAS, the matching funds have been identified, and are available and appropriated in
the Capital Projects Fund - Major Building Maintenance capital project; and
WHEREAS,Article V,Section 9,of the Charter of the City of Fort Collins 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,does not exceed the then current estimate of actual and anticipated
revenues to be received during the fiscal year; and
WHEREAS, City staff has determined that the appropriation of funds from the Colorado
Department of Transportation TEA-21 Funds as described herein will not cause the total amount
appropriated in the Capital Projects Fund - Major Building Maintenance capital project to exceed
the current estimate of actual and anticipated revenues to be received during any fiscal year; and
WHEREAS, it is the desire of the Council to appropriate the sum of$90,400, in the form of
TEA-21 funds from CDOT, in the Capital Projects Fund - Major Building Maintenance capital
project, to be used with existing appropriations totaling$22,600, for the purpose of rehabilitating
the interior of the Street Railway Car Barn at 300 North Howes Street.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS that there is hereby appropriated for expenditure from unanticipated revenue in the
Capital Projects Fund - Major Building Maintenance capital project the sum of NINETY
THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS ($90,400) to be used with existing appropriations,
totaling TWENTY-TWO THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS ($22,600),for the purpose of
rehabilitating the interior of the Street Railway Car Barn at 300 North Howes Street.
Introduced and considered favorably on first reading and ordered published this 20th day of
August, A.D. 2002, and to be presented for final passage on the 3rd day of September, A.D. 2002.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading this 3rd day of September, A.D. 2002.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk