HomeMy WebLinkAbout075 - 07/02/2019 - MAKING APPROPRIATIONS AND AUTHORIZING TRANSFERS OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DRAKE WATER RECLAMATION FAORDINANCE NO. 075, 2019
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
MAKING APPROPRIATIONS AND AUTHORIZING TRANSFERS OF
APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DRAKE WATER RECLAMATION FACILITY
SIDESTREAM TREATMENT PROJECT AND RELATED ART IN PUBLIC PLACES
WHEREAS, the City is pursuing the Drake Water Reclamation Facility Sidestreani
Treatment Project ("Project") in order to meet anticipated future water quality standards under
regulations promulgated by the Water Quality Control Commission of the Colorado Department
of Public Health and Environment; and
WHEREAS, a conceptual cost estimate of$4.3 million for the Project was developed for
the 2017-2018 Budgeting for Outcomes cycle based on capacity, modeling, analogous projects,
and available sidestream treatment technologies; and
WHEREAS the total cost for the Project has since increased as design progressed,
requiring an additional appropriation in order to complete the Project; and
WHEREAS, there are unappropriated prior year reserves in the Wastewater Fund that are
available to be appropriated for the Project; and
WHEREAS, Article V, Section 9 of the City Charter permits the City Council 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 City Manager has recommended the appropriation described herein and
determined that funds for this appropriation are available and previously unappropriated from the
Wastewater Fund and that this appropriation will not cause the total amount appropriated in the
Wastewater Fund to exceed the current estimate of actual and anticipated revenues to be received
in that fund during any fiscal year; and
WHEREAS, Article V, Section 10 of the City Charter authorizes the City Council to
transfer by ordinance any unexpended and unencumbered appropriated amount or portion thereof
from one fund or capital project to another fund or capital project, provided that the purpose for
which the transferred funds are to be expended remains unchanged; the purpose for which the
funds were initially appropriated no longer exists;or the proposed transfer is from fund or capital
project in which the amount appropriated exceeds the amount needed to accomplish the purpose
specified in the appropriation ordinance; and
WHEREAS, this Project involves construction estimated to cost more than $250,000, as
such, Section 23-304 of the City Code requires one percent of these qualified appropriations to be
transferred to the Cultural Services and Facilities Fund for a contribution to the Art in Public Places
program; and
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WHEREAS,in accordance with Article V, Section 10 of the City Charter,the appropriation
of reserves for the Project from the Wastewater Fund and'the transfer of a portion of those
unexpended and unencumbered appropriated funds to the Art in Public Places program established
by City Code Section 23-304(a) will be used for Wastewater purposes and improvements in
connection with the Project.
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 for expenditure from prior year reserves
in the Wastewater Fund the sum of ONE MILLION ONE HUNDRED ELEVEN THOUSAND
DOLLARS ($1,111,000) for the Drake Water Reclamation Facility Sidestream Treatment Project
as follows:
Drake Water Reclamation Facility Sidestream Treatment 1,100,000
Project
Art in Public Places Project(Artwork) 8,580
Art in Public Places Project(transfer to Cultural Services 2,200
Fund for APP Operations)
Art in Public Places Project(transfer to Cultural Services 220
Fund for APP Maintenance)
TOTAL I,I 11,000
Section 3. That the unexpended appropriated amount of TWO THOUSAND TWO
HUNDRED DOLLARS ($2,200)in the Wastewater Fund is authorized for transfer to the Cultural
Services and Facilities Fund and appropriated therein for the Art in Public Places Program
Operations.
Section 4. That the unexpended appropriated amount of TWO HUNDRED TWENTY
DOLLARS ($220) in the Wastewater Fund is authorized for transfer to the Cultural Services and
Facilities Fund and appropriated therein for the Art in Public Places Program Maintenance.
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Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 4th day of
June, A.D. 2019, and to be presented for final passage on the 2/ndday of July, A.D. 2019.
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Passed and adopted on final reading on the 2nd day of July, A.D. 2019.
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