HomeMy WebLinkAbout007 - 02/15/2022 - APPROPRIATING PRIOR YEAR RESERVES IN THE TRANSIT SERVICES FUND TO EXPAND THE SCOPE OF WORK FOR NORTHORDINANCE NO. 007, 2022
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING PRIOR YEAR RESERVES IN THE TRANSIT SERVICES FUND TO
EXPAND THE SCOPE OF WORK FOR NORTH COLLEGE MAX PLAN
WHEREAS, the North College MAX Plan (the "Plan") explores bringing MAX Bus Rapid
Transit to the North College Avenue Corridor, with primary emphasis on transportation visioning,
transit service modeling and alignment, and integration into Transfort's expansion per the City's
Transit Master Plan; and
WHEREAS, the Plan currently is funded by a Federal Transit Administration Section 5338
grant of $350,000, which required a local match of $70,000, and was appropriated in 2021; and
WHEREAS, the total amount of $350,000 in grant funds, $320,000 have been set aside for
consultant services (Fehr & Peers) and $30,000 for equitable engagement practices, including
hiring community -based organizations to encourage public engagement, provide incentives for
public participation, and provide language translation services; and
WHEREAS, Transfort seeks to emphasize evaluation of land use and transit -oriented
development issues and increase associated public engagement, which would add several new
tasks for the consultant team (and extend the project timeline from June to August 2022),
including: engaging the community to establish a future land use vision, developing land use and
transit -oriented development alternatives; modeling building height massing and transit -
supportive densities; providing resources for amendments to the Master Street Plan and the North
College Access Control Plan; and coordinating and modifying alternatives for the North Transit
Operations Center; and
WHEREAS, the expanded scope of work for which this appropriation is requested is
needed because the current land use vision that was established in the 2007 North College Corridor
Plan is now out of date, and there are several public projects and development proposals that would
benefit from additional public engagement and a renewed vision for land use in the area, including:
24/7 consolidated homeless shelter; North Transit Operations Center; re -zoning of mobile home
parks for conservation purposes; North Mason stormwater outfalI; and several private development
projects; and
WHEREAS, the Plan currently is the largest public engagement and planning effort in the
North College area, creating an opportunity to discuss future and changing land uses with the
public prior to an update to the North College Corridor Plan, which is not planned for the
immediate future; and
WHEREAS, to address evaluation of land use and transit -oriented development issues and
increase associated public engagement, as well as to address the increase in associated tasks and
expansion of the scope of consultant's work for the Plan, Transfort requests appropriation of
$48,340; and
WHEREAS, this appropriation benefits the public health, safety, and welfare of the
residents of Fort Collins and serves the public purpose of improving public transportation across
the City; and
WHEREAS, Article V, Section 9 of the City Charter permits the City Council, upon the
recommendation of the City Manager, to appropriate by ordinance at any time during the fiscal
year such funds for expenditure as may be available from reserves accumulated in prior years,
notwithstanding that such reserves were not previously appropriated; and
WHEREAS, the Interim 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 and all other funds 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 prior year reserves in the Transit Services
Fund the sum of FORTY-EIGHT THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED FORTY DOLLARS
($48,340) for expenditure in the Transit Services Fund for the North College MAX Plan.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordere
January, A.D. 2022, and to be presented for final passage o 15th
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Passed and adopted on final reading on the 15th day of
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