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City Council Work Session
July 25, 2017
After the City Council Adjourned Meeting, which begins at 6:00 p.m.
(Amended 7/24/17)
CALL TO ORDER.
1. City Charter and Municipal Court Jurisdiction. (staff: Judge Kathleen Lane, Carrie Daggett, Darin
Atteberry; 30 minute discussion)
The purpose of this item is to provide background to Council regarding a possible ballot question
seeking voter approval of a Charter amendment modifying Municipal Court's jurisdiction over civil
claims.
2. Northern Integrated Supply Project (NISP) Fish and Wildlife Mitigation and Enhancement Plan.
(staff:John Stokes, Jennifer Shanahan; 15 minute staff presentation; 45 minute discussion)
The purpose of this item is to review and discuss staff’s proposed comments on the State of
Colorado Fish and Wildlife Mitigation and Enhancement Plan (the Plan) for the Northern Integrated
Supply Project (NISP). In 2015, Fort Collins City Council adopted a position regarding NISP in
Resolution No. 2015-082. The resolution states that NISP would be harmful to Fort Collins and
states “City Council cannot support NISP as it is currently described and proposed…”
In 2017, City Council adopted Resolution 2017-024 authorizing the City Manager and his designees
to meet on a regular basis with Northern Water to discuss and explore Fort Collins’ interests in order
to ascertain whether those interests can be met pursuant to the terms of the resolution. To date,
while several amicable meetings have occurred, Fort Collins and Northern Water have not reached
any new understandings or agreements.
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While staff’s draft comment letter on the Plan implicitly assumes that NISP will be permitted and
constructed by recommending various changes to NISP and its operations, nothing in draft comment
letter should be interpreted to be a change of Fort Collins’ position regarding NISP.
While the Plan contains new, useful, and encouraging mitigation measures, staff continues to believe
that NISP will have damaging impacts to Fort Collins and is concerned that the Plan does not
sufficiently address a number of key concerns. In addition to describing a number of concerns, the
comment letter also describes numerous recommendations to address the concerns.
The major elements of the proposed comments on the Plan are:
Peak Flows
Water Quality
Mitigation, Restoration, Channel Improvements, and Conveyance
Adaptive Management and Long-term Monitoring
Uncertainties regarding agreements
Mitigation and Enhancement Costs
Big game habitat
The draft comment letter is available for public comment on the City’s web page beginning July 20,
2017 and ending on July 30, 2017 (http://www.fcgov.com/nispreview/). On July 20, 2017, the web
link will be sent to all citizens who shared their email address at the last NISP open house. Staff also
presented information to the Land Conservation and Stewardship Board, the Natural Resources
Advisory Board, and the Water Board.
3. Poudre Fire Authority (PFA) 2016 Annual Report. (staff: Tom DeMint, Kirsten Howard, Ann
Turnquist; 10 minute staff presentation; 45 minute discussion)
The purpose of this item is to review PFA governance and funding, 2016 performance
measurements and metrics, goals, actual spending to budget, benefits to the community related to
strategic outcome goals, operational efficiency, productivity improvements, issues of concern to
Poudre Fire Authority, the Poudre Valley Fire Protection District, and the City, and a focus on issues
moving forward.
OTHER BUSINESS.
Discussion regarding small cell telecommunication facilities.
ADJOURNMENT.