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Mayor
City Hall
Fort Collins, CO 80522
970.416.2154
970.224.6107 - fax
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September 19, 2024
Transportation Board
c/o Melina Dempsey, Staff Liaison
PO Box 580
Fort Collins, CO 80522
Dear Chair Edgar Peyronnin and Board Members:
On behalf of City Council, thank you for providing us with September 18, 2024 memorandum
regarding the Board’s recommendations to support Transportation BFO Offers in the 2025-26
City Manager’s Recommended Budget.
We appreciate you sharing your concerns about ensuring safety throughout the transportation
systems, as well as ensuring equity for all community members. Also, we understand the Board
recommends that offer 66.8 be replaced with 65.21.
Thank you for the expertise and perspectives that you bring to the Board and sharing them with
City Council.
Best Regards,
Jeni Arndt
Mayor
/sek
cc: City Council Members
Kelly DiMartino, City Manager
Transportation Board
Edgar Peyronnin, Chair
Alexa Nickoloff, Vice Chair
DATE: September 18, 2024
TO: City Councilmembers
FROM: City of Fort Collins Transportation Board
Subject: Transportation Board Recommendations to support Transportation BFO Offers
Dear Mayor and City Council Members,
Last night, the Transportation Board reviewed and discussed the BFO offers focusing on public
transportation, and vehicle network to help the city achieve its goals of safety and equity. Given the
limited time for our review and comment for this first critical pass, we only have a few comments.
The Board is very concerned with safety throughout the city’s transportation system. We support
efforts to slow traffic down, improve pedestrian crosswalks and bike lanes, as well as improving safety
for Transfort riders, particularly those who are vulnerable. As such, we were pleased to see the
following items get funded:
19.10 Active Modes Plan Infrastructure Implementation (Shields Road Diet)
20.13 Power Trail at Harmony Road Grade-Separated Crossing
20.5 CCIP Pedestrian Sidewalk ADA
65.22 Transfort 7.0 FTE – Additional Transit Security Officers & Mental Health Collaboration
The Board is also concerned with ensuring equity throughout the city transportation network. Not everyone can
ride a bicycle, not everyone has a car. Transfort and other regional services can be the critical resource to bridge
the gap, make the city more affordable, and reduce emissions. We were pleased to see the following items get
funded:
65.2 Reopening of Transfort Routes 11/12
65.3 Poudre Express Regional Transit Service Partnership
65.4 Midday and Weekend Flex top Boulder Bus Service
65.6 CCIP – ADA Bus Stop Improvements
65.7 Dial-a-Ride
The Board recommends that 66.8 (Parking Fixed License Plate Recognition) be replaced with 65.21 (Transfort
Sunday and Holiday Service). We view the additional service to be more critical to the community, particularly
those who rely on Transfort and work on Sundays and Holidays.
Respectfully submitted,
Edgar U. Peyronnin, Transportation Board Chair