HomeMy WebLinkAbout148 - 12/15/2020 - MAKING SUPPLEMENTAL APPPROPRIATIONS OF CORONAVIRUS AID, RELIEF, AND ECONOMIC SECURITY (CARES) ACT FU ORDINANCE NO. 148, 2020
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
MAKING SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS OF CORONAVIRUS AID, RELIEF, AND
ECONOMIC SECURITY (CARES) ACT FUNDING FOR TRANSFORT
OPERATING ASSISTANCE, PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE,
AND CONTRACTED SERVICE COSTS RELATED TO PREPARATION FOR AND
RESPONSE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
WHEREAS, in response to the public health emergency resulting from the spread of the
Novel Coronavirus 2019 ("COVID-19"), the City Manager proclaimed a local emergency on
March 13, 2020, and City Council extended such proclamation with its adoption of Resolution
2020-030; and
WHEREAS, the City received grant revenue from the Federal Transit Agency ("FTA") in
the form of Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security ("CARES") Act appropriations to
urbanized areas; and
WHEREAS, the FTA CARES Act funding supports capital, operating, and other transit
agency expenses to prepare for, and respond, to COVID-19 without requiring a local match; and
WHEREAS, in the FTA CARES Act funding replaced General Fund and Transit Fund
monies that would have been the basis of Transit spending during the current fiscal year; and
WHEREAS, the FTA CARES Act funding was disbursed through apportionments to FTA
Urbanized Area Formula programs; Fort Collins' Transfort Department being designated as a
primary recipient for this geographical Transportation Management Area("TMA"); and
WHEREAS,the City's Transfort Department received a total of$10,368,067 for the TMA;
and
WHEREAS,Transfort is responsible for allocating and dedicating funds to smaller transit
agencies in the TMA; and
WHEREAS, $174,736 of the funds will be allocated to the Berthoud Area Transportation
System (`SATs"), and $1,473,705 of the funds to the North Front Range Metropolitan Planning
Organization ("NFRMPO"); the remaining $8,719,626 is allocated to Fort Collins' Transfort
Department; and
WHEREAS, the City's Transfort Department will use these CARES Act funds for
operating assistance, preventative maintenance, and contracted service costs for 2020 and 2021;
and
WHEREAS, this appropriation benefits public health, safety and welfare of the residents
of Fort Collins and serves the public purpose of providing critical transportation services and
complementary ADA paratransit services to the Fort Collins' community; and
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WHEREAS, Article V, Section 9, of the City Charter permits the City Council, upon
recommendation of the City Manager, 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, does not exceed the current
estimate of actual and anticipated revenues to be received during the fiscal year; and
WHEREAS, the City Manager has recommended the appropriation described herein and
determined that this appropriation is available and previously unappropriated from the Transit
Services Fund and will not cause the total amount appropriated in the Transit Services Fund to
exceed the current estimate of actual and anticipated revenues to be received in that fund during
this 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 from grant revenue in the Transit Services
Fund the sum of TEN MILLION THREE HUNDRED SIXTY-EIGHT THOUSAND SIXTY-
SEVEN DOLLARS ($10,368,067) for expenditure from the Transit Services Fund for operating
assistance, preventative maintenance, and contracted service costs related to preparation for and
response to the COVID-19 pandemic during the 2020 and 2021 fiscal years.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 1st day of
December, A.D. 2020, and to be presented for final passage on the 15th day of December, A.D.
2020.
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