HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 05/03/2016 - FIRST READING OF ORDINANCE NO. 057, 2016, APPROPRIAgenda Item 8
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AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY May 3, 2016
City Council
STAFF
Matt Fater, Utilities Special Projects Manager
Jon Haukaas, Water Engr Field Operations Mgr
Phil Ladd, Utilities Customer Accounts Supervisor
Lance Smith, Strategic Financial Planning Manager
SUBJECT
First Reading of Ordinance No. 057, 2016, Appropriating Unanticipated Grant Revenue in the Storm Drainage
Fund for Conceptual Design of the Mulberry/Myrtle/Riverside Storm Sewer Project.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The purpose of this item is to appropriate $44,615 in grant revenues from the State of Colorado Department of
Homeland Security-Office of Emergency Management (DHSEM). The grant will fund city project management
costs associated with conceptual design of the Mulberry/Myrtle/Riverside Storm Sewer project. The project is
identified in the Old Town Master Drainage Plan to mitigate street and structure flooding.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading.
BACKGROUND / DISCUSSION
In 2014, the DHSEM announced the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was providing funding
for flood mitigation activities and infrastructure to Colorado to distribute to communities subjected to flooding in
the September 2013 flood event. The City submitted a grant proposal for the Mulberry/Myrtle/Riverside Storm
Sewer project to the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) managed by the DHSEM (as the Grantor).
Funds would be delivered to successful applicants via reimbursement for costs incurred for approved
mitigation approaches. The City’s submittal for the conceptual design of the project totaled $50,989. The City
was awarded $44,615 (87.5% of total) as matching funds from FEMA and DHSEM.
Upon completion of the conceptual design phase, FEMA will evaluate the project for consideration of future
grant funding related to final design and construction costs. Ultimately, the project will construct stormwater
improvements in the area of Mulberry Street, Riverside Avenue, and Myrtle to alleviate structure and street
flooding.
If the Ordinance is adopted, this Project account balance will be established in a capital project account that
will receive funds directed from the existing Utilities Stormwater Drainage Fund. The HMGP grant award
matching funds will be provided via reimbursement requests to the DHSEM made quarterly.
CITY FINANCIAL IMPACTS
The Ordinance will enable Utilities to move forward with the Project. The matching funds of $6,374 are
expected to be covered by current appropriations available in the Utilities Storm Drainage Fund. This
Ordinance is also consistent with the objectives stated by City Council in Ordinance No. 168, 1998, for uniform
and citywide operation, maintenance, and improvements to the stormwater system.
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ORDINANCE NO. 057, 2016
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED GRANT REVENUE IN THE
STORM DRAINAGE FUND FOR CONCEPTUAL DESIGN OF THE
MULBERRY/MYRTLE/RIVERSIDE STORM SEWER PROJECT
WHEREAS, in 2014, the State of Colorado Department of Homeland Security - Office
of Emergency Management (“DHSEM”) announced that the Federal Emergency Management
Agency (“FEMA”) was providing funding for flood mitigation activities and infrastructure to
Colorado to distribute to communities subjected to flooding in the September 2013 flood event;
and
WHEREAS, the City’s submittal for the conceptual design of the Mulberry/
Myrtle/Riverside Storm Sewer project totaled $50,989 and the City was awarded $44,615
(87.5% of total) as matching funds from FEMA and DHSEM for project management costs
associated with conceptual design of the project; and
WHEREAS, the purpose of this item is to appropriate $44,615 in grant revenues from
DHSEM; and
WHEREAS, the City matching funds of $6,374 will be covered by current
appropriations available in the Storm Drainage Fund; and
WHEREAS, the proposed project will construct stormwater improvements in the area of
Mulberry Street, Riverside Avenue and Myrtle Street to alleviate structure and street flooding;
and
WHEREAS, upon completion of the conceptual design phase, FEMA will evaluate the
project for consideration of future grant funding related to final design and construction costs;
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
appropriations for that fiscal year, do 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 Storm Drainage 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:
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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
revenues in the Storm Drainage Fund the sum of FORTY FOUR THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED
FIFTEEN DOLLARS ($44,615) for the Mulberry/Myrtle/Riverside Storm Sewer Project.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 3rd day of
May, A.D. 2016, and to be presented for final passage on the 17th 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 17th day of May, A.D. 2016.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Clerk