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AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY May 3, 2016
City Council
STAFF
Jason Stutzman, Civil Engineer III
SUBJECT
Second Reading of Ordinance No. 050, 2016, Appropriating Unanticipated Grant Revenue from Great
Outdoors Colorado (GOCO) in the Capital Projects Fund for the Fossil Creek Trail-College Avenue to Shields
Street Project.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This Ordinance, unanimously adopted on First Reading on April 19, 2016, appropriates grant funds for the
construction of the Fossil Creek Trail from College Avenue to Shields Street. Great Outdoors Colorado
(GOCO) has awarded the City a $1,000,000 trail grant. The proposed project completes a major connection of
the Fossil Creek Trail from College Avenue to Shields Street. The project involves 1.25 miles of new concrete
trail and a major tunnel underpass structure at the Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) Railroad. The trail will
connect to the existing Fossil Creek Trail just west of College Avenue and terminate at the existing trail on the
east side of Shields Street. The layout of the trail has been discussed with appropriate City staff and area
residents. Design of the trail tunnel underpass phase of the project has reached the final stage. Construction
of the trail tunnel underpass will begin in 2016. Pursuant to the grant agreement the City has until June 2017
to complete the project.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on Second Reading.
ATTACHMENTS
1. First Reading Agenda Item Summary, April 19, 2016 (w/o attachments) (PDF)
2. Ordinance No. 050, 2016 (PDF)
Agenda Item 7
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AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY April 19, 2016
City Council
STAFF
Jason Stutzman, Civil Engineer III
SUBJECT
Items Relating to the Fossil Creek Trail - College Avenue to Shields Street Project.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
A. Resolution 2016-036 Authorizing the City Manager to Enter Into a Grant Agreement with the State Board
of the Great Outdoors Colorado Trust Fund for the Fossil Creek Trail from College Avenue to Shields
Street.
B. First Reading of Ordinance No. 050, 2016, Appropriating Unanticipated Grant Revenue from Great
Outdoors Colorado (GOCO) in the Capital Projects Fund for the Fossil Creek Trail-College Avenue to
Shields Street Project.
The purpose of this item is to authorize the City Manager to enter into an intergovernmental agreement with
Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO) for purposes of accepting grant funding and to appropriate the grant funds
for the construction of the Fossil Creek Trail from College Avenue to Shields Street. GOCO has awarded the
City a $1,000,000 trail grant. The proposed project would complete a major connection of the Fossil Creek
Trail from College Avenue to Shields Street. The project involves 1.25 miles of new concrete trail and a major
tunnel underpass structure at the Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) Railroad. The trail will connect to the
existing Fossil Creek Trail just west of College Avenue and terminate at the existing trail on the east side of
Shields Street. The layout of the trail has been discussed with appropriate City staff and area residents.
Design of the trail tunnel underpass phase of the project has reached the final stage. Construction of the trail
tunnel underpass will begin in 2016. GOCO requires a City resolution authorizing the City to enter into the
grant agreement. Pursuant to the grant agreement the City has until June 2017 to complete the project.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends adoption of the Resolution and the Ordinance on First Reading.
BACKGROUND / DISCUSSION
In both 1996 and 2008, the City’s Parks and Recreation Policy Plan identified this section of the Fossil Creek
Trail as part of the master plan. The trail segment on Fossil Creek Wetlands Natural Area is shown on the
Fossil Creek Natural Areas Management Plan, which was completed in 2005. The City has been working with
BNSF for several years to get approval of the City’s plans for the underpass, and obtain the necessary
easements from the railroad to complete the work and operate and maintain the underpass on BNSF’s
property.
The GOCO grant agreement requires the City to operate, manage and maintain the project in a reasonable
state of repair for at least 25 years, subject to annual appropriations. The City must also place a sign at the
project site acknowledging GOCO’s assistance.
ATTACHMENT 1
Agenda Item 7
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CITY FINANCIAL IMPACTS
Construction of the underpass is expected to cost approximately $2,700,000. Capital funding for the
construction of the underpass was budgeted from the Conservation Trust Fund in years 2015 and 2016.
Obtaining this grant will offset trail funds needed to complete the project. Funds for public art were set aside for
the underpass project from the appropriation of the Conservation Trust Fund money in accordance with the
City Code requirements for Art in Public Places (APP).
The total trail construction project, including the tunnel underpass, is estimated to cost approximately
$4,200,000. Staff will be submitting a budget offer for the remaining funds needed in the 2017-18 budgets.
Additional funding for APP will be included in that budget to bring the total APP funding for the project up to 1%
of the total project budget. Operation and maintenance funding for the project will be about $10,000 per year
and will be budgeted starting in the 2017 Parks budget.
BOARD / COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION
The trail connection was included in the 2013 Paved Recreational Trail Master Plan, which was reviewed by
the multiple boards, including the Parks & Recreation Board and the Land Conservation and Stewardship
Board. Project updates have been reviewed by the Parks and Recreation Board and the Land Conservation
and Stewardship Board as the project has progressed over the last few years.
PUBLIC OUTREACH
The 2008 Parks and Recreation Policy Plan included an opportunity for the community to review a map
showing future trails including the Fossil Creek Trail segment from College Avenue to Shields Street. The 2013
Paved Recreational Trail Master Plan included this proposed trail segment in information presented to the
community for their review.
Citizen responses in the 2013 Paved Recreational Trail Master Plan listed the Fossil Creek Trail from College
Avenue to Shields Street segment as one of the top three needed new trail projects
ATTACHMENTS
1. Location map (PDF)
2. Detailed location map (PDF)
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ORDINANCE NO. 050, 2016
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED GRANT REVENUE FROM GREAT
OUTDOORS COLORADO (GOCO) IN THE CAPITAL PROJECTS FUND FOR
THE FOSSIL CREEK TRAIL-COLLEGE AVENUE TO SHIELDS STREET PROJECT
WHEREAS, the State Board of the Great Outdoors Colorado Trust Fund (GOCO) has
awarded the City of Fort Collins a $1,000,000 trail grant for the construction of the Fossil Creek
Trail from College Avenue to Shields Street (the “Project”); and
WHEREAS, the purpose of this item is to appropriate grant funds to the Project; and
WHEREAS, the Project would complete a major connection of the Fossil Creek Trail
from College Avenue to Shields Street and involves 1.25 miles of new concrete trail and a major
tunnel underpass structure at the Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) Railroad; and
WHEREAS, the trail will connect to the existing Fossil Creek Trail just west of College
Avenue and terminate at the existing trail on the east side of Shields Street; and
WHEREAS, the City has been working with BNSF for several years to get approval of
the City’s plans for the underpass, and obtain the necessary easements from the railroad to
complete the work and operate and maintain the underpass on BNSF’s property; and
WHEREAS, construction of the underpass is expected to cost approximately $2,700,000
in total; and
WHEREAS, capital funding for the construction of the underpass was appropriated from
the Conservation Trust Fund in years 2015 and 2016 and obtaining this grant will offset trail
funds needed to complete the project; and
WHEREAS, funding for public art for the underpass portion of the Project was
previously appropriated from the Conservation Trust Fund in accordance with the Art in Public
Places (APP) provisions of the City Code; and
WHEREAS, the total Project including the tunnel underpass and trail construction is
estimated to cost approximately $4,200,000; and
WHEREAS, staff will be submitting a budget offer for the remaining funds needed in the
2017-18 budgets, including additional funding for APP, with operation and maintenance funding
for the Project of about $10,000 per year budgeted starting in the 2017 Parks budget; and
WHEREAS, Article V, Section 9, of the City 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
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appropriations for that fiscal year, does not exceed the current estimate of actual and anticipated
revenues to be received during the fiscal year; and
WHEREAS, City staff has determined that the appropriation of the revenue as described
herein will not cause the total amount appropriated in the Capital Projects Fund to exceed the
current estimate of actual and anticipated revenues to be received in that fund during any fiscal
year.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
FORT COLLINS as follows:
Section 1. That the City Council hereby makes and adopts the determinations and
findings contained in the recitals set forth above.
Section 2. That there is hereby appropriated for expenditure from unanticipated grant
revenue in the Capital Projects Fund the sum ONE MILLION DOLLARS ($1,000,000) for the
Fossil Creek Trail-College Avenue to Shields Street Project.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 19th day of
April, A.D. 2016, and to be presented for final passage on the 3rd day of May, A.D. 2016.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading on the 3rd day of May, A.D. 2016.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Clerk