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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 11/20/2001 - FIRST READING OF ORDINANCE NO. 201, 2001, APPROPRI AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY ITEM NUMBER: iz FORT COLLINS CITY COUNCIL DATE: November 20, 2001 STAFF: Marty Heffernan SUBJECT: First Reading of Ordinance No. 201, 2001, Appropriating Prior Year Reserves Designated for Community Park Improvements in the Capital Improvement Expansion Fund and Neighborhood Parkland Fund Prior Year Reserves for Transfer to the Building Community Choices Capital Projects Fund Fossil Creek Community Park Capital Project for Use With Existing Appropriations to Construct a Maintenance Facility. RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends the adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading. FINANCIAL IMPACT: This Ordinance appropriates and transfers $75,000 from prior year reserves in the Neighborhood Parkland Fund and $105,000 from prior year reserves designated for community park improvements in the Capital Improvement Expansion Fund to the Fossil Creek Community Park 110 capital project. Funding for operation and maintenance of this facility has been included in the General Fund budget for 2003. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Neighborhood and community park impact fees are assessed on new residential dwellings and these fees are used to build new neighborhood and community park improvements described in the current approved plan. The current Parks and Recreation Policy Plan identifies the need for central maintenance facilities for these neighborhood and community parks. Fossil Creek Community Park will have a maintenance facility that will be used to maintain that park, and will also be used to maintain a future 50-acre community park and seven neighborhood parks in the southeast area of the city. Funding for Fossil Creek Community Park cannot be use to pay for the maintenance facilities for the other parks because this funding was approved by the voters for Fossil Creek Park. The neighborhood and community park impact fees for maintenance facilities will be used to enlarge the maintenance facility at Fossil Creek Park. The larger facility will provide adequate space to store equipment and materials for the other southeast parks and to accommodate the needs of the crews that will maintain those parks. Enlarging the Fossil Creek maintenance facility is the most efficient, cost-effective way to provide maintenance facilities for these southeast parks. Adoption of this Ordinance appropriates a total of$180,000 from neighborhood and community park impact fee revenues to enlarge the maintenance facility at Fossil Creek Park so it can be used to maintain other parks in the southeast area of the city. ORDINANCE NO. 201, 2001 OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS APPROPRIATING PRIOR YEAR RESERVES DESIGNATED FOR COMMUNITY PARK IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT EXPANSION FUND AND NEIGHBORHOOD PARKLAND FUND PRIOR YEAR RESERVES FOR TRANSFER TO THE BUILDING COMMUNITY CHOICES CAPITAL PROJECTS FUND FOSSIL CREEK COMMUNITY PARK CAPITAL PROJECT FOR USE WITH EXISTING APPROPRIATIONS TO CONSTRUCT A MAINTENANCE FACILITY WHEREAS,the current Parks and Recreation Policy Plan,which was approved by the City Council with the adoption of Resolution 96-146 in December 1996, recommends that community parks be developed at a standard of 4.5 acres per 1,000 population; and WHEREAS, the Parks and Recreation Policy Plan identifies the need for centralized maintenance facilities for the future 50-acre community park and seven neighborhood parks planned for the southeast area of the City; and WHEREAS, included in the Building Community Choices Capital Improvement Plan for Natural Areas and Parks, approved by voters at a Municipal Election on April 8, 1997, is development and construction of Fossil Creek Community Park; and WHEREAS,improvements at the 99-acre Fossil Creek Community Park,located on Lemay Avenue south of Harmony Road across the street west of Southridge Golf Course will include lighted ballfields, shelters, playgrounds, multi-use turf areas, restrooms, sidewalks, water features, basketball and tennis courts,multi-use courts,parking lots,a maintenance facility,and landscaping; and WHEREAS, staff recommends constructing a maintenance facility at Fossil Creek Community Park that is larger than originally planned for that Park, in order to serve a future 50- acre community park and seven neighborhood parks planned for the southeast area of the City; and WHEREAS, a larger maintenance facility at Fossil Creek Community Park is an efficient, cost-effective way to provide maintenance facilities for existing and future park sites in southeast Fort Collins; and WHEREAS,neighborhood and community park impact fees are assessed on new residential dwellings and are used to build new neighborhood and community parks, including maintenance facilities needed to care for those parks; and WHEREAS, additional funds are available for appropriation from prior year reserves designated for community park improvements in the Capital Improvement Expansion Fund ($105,000) and Neighborhood Parkland Fund prior year reserves ($75,000); and WHEREAS,Article V, Section 9, of the Charter of the City of Fort Collins(the"Charter") 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$180,000 from prior year reserves designated for community park improvements in the Capital Improvement Expansion Fund($105,000)and Neighborhood Parkland Fund prior year reserves($75,000)for transfer to the Building Community Choices Capital Projects Fund for Natural Areas and Parks to be used to construct a larger maintenance facility at Fossil Creek Community Park. NOW,THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS as follows: Section 1. That there is hereby appropriated from prior year reserves designated for community park improvements in the Capital Improvement Expansion Fund, the sum of ONE HUNDRED FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS($105,000)for transfer to the Fossil Creek Community Park project,within the Building Community Choices Capital Projects Fund for Natural Areas and Parks, to be used to construct a larger maintenance facility at Fossil Creek Community Park. Section 2. That there is hereby appropriated from prior year reserves in the Neighborhood Parkland Fund,the sum of SEVENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS($75,000)for transfer to the Fossil Creek Community Park project, within the Building Community Choices Capital Projects Fund for Natural Areas and Parks, to be used to construct a larger maintenance facility at Fossil Creek Community Park. Introduced and considered favorably on first reading and ordered published this 20th day of November, A.D. 2001, and to be presented for final passage on the 18th day of December, A.D. 2001. Mayor ATTEST: City Clerk Passed and adopted on final reading this 18th day of December, A.D. 2001. Mayor ATTEST: City Clerk