HomeMy WebLinkAbout064 - 05/02/2023 - APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED GRANT REVENUE FROM THE COLORADO ENERGY OFFICE’S COMMUNITY ACCESS TO ELECORDINANCE NO.064,2023
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED GRANT REVENUE FROM THE
COLORADO ENERGY OFFICE’S COMMUNITY ACCESS TO ELECTRIC BICYCLES
GRANT PROGRAM FOR THE CHOOSE YOUR RIDE,SHIFT YOUR RIDE PROGRAM
WHEREAS,FC Moves is a department within the City’s Planning,Development,and
Transportation division that exists to advance mobility solutions to increase walking,bicycling,
transit use,shared modes,and environmentally sustainable modes;and
WHEREAS,advancing clean and affordable transportation options like e-scooters and e
bikes is an important element in achieving FC Moves’mission;and
WHEREAS,the FC Moves Choose Your Ride,Shift Your Ride project (the “Project”)
supports electric micromobility,including shared micromobility,for the most impoverished and
marginalized of the Fort Collins population;and
WHEREAS,the Project,operated in collaboration with Colorado State University,seeks
to support electric micromobility and shared mieromobility options by providing e-bikes or SPIN
e-bike/e-scooter share passes to individuals with low incomes in Fort Collins;and
WHEREAS,the City of Fort Collins applied for and was awarded $148,350 from the
Colorado Energy Office (“CEO”)and its Community Access to Electric Bicycles Grant Program
for the Project;and
WHEREAS,the CEO grant is a reimbursement type grant,meaning Transportation Fund
expenses will be reimbursed up to $148,350;and
WHEREAS,the CEO grant requires a local match of $14,980,which already has been
appropriated in the 2023 Transportation Fund in the FC Moves operating budget;and
WHEREAS,the CEO grant funds will enable the Project to subsidize micromobility and
educational programming for up to forty participants who meet selection criteria that prioritizes
the lowest income individuals and transportation needs that can be addressed by the Project;and
WHEREAS,the CEO grant funds will be used to provide selected participants with either
e-bike ownership or free access to SPIN e-bikes and e-scooters for a one-year period;and
WHEREAS,Project funding also will be used to develop and provide supportive and
educational programing to the participants;and
WHEREAS,subsidizing sustainable transportation options and providing hands-on
education are proven strategies to encourage people to try and utilize other modes of transportation
besides driving automobiles alone;and
WHEREAS,this appropriation benefits the public health,safety and welfare of the
residents of Fort Collins and serves the public purposes of promoting environmentally sustainable
mobility solutions and serving lower income members of our community;and
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 and all other funds 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
Transportation Services Fund and will not cause the total amount appropriated in the
Transportation Services 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 11 of the City Charter authorizes the City Council to
designate in the ordinance when appropriating funds for a federal,state or private grant,that such
appropriation shall not lapse at the end of the fiscal year in which the appropriation is made,but
continue until the earlier of the expiration of the federal,state or private grant or the City’s
expenditure of all funds received from such grant;and
WHEREAS,the City Council wishes to designate the appropriation herein from the
Colorado Community Revitalization Grant Program as an appropriation that shall not lapse until
the earlier of the expiration of the grant or the City’s expenditure of all hinds received from such
grant.
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 new revenue or other funds in the
Transportation Services Fund the sum of ONE HUNDRED FORTY-EIGHT THOUSAND
THREE HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS ($148,350)to be expended in the Transportation Services
Fund for the Choose Your Ride,Shift Your Ride Program.
Section 3.That the appropriation herein from the Colorado Energy Office’s
Community Access to Electric Bicycle Grant Program is hereby designated,as authorized in
Article V,Section 11 of the City Charter,as an appropriation that shall not lapse at the end of this
fiscal year but continue until the earlier of the expiration of the grant or the City’s expenditure of
all hinds received from such grant.
Section 4.That the City Council has reviewed the Colorado Energy Office’s
Community Access to Electric Bicycle Grant Program and approves of such funding and further
authorizes City staff to take appropriate action necessary to be able to expend the grant funds as
contemplated by the Grant Program.
Introduced,considered favorably on first reading,and ordered published this 18th day of
April,2023,and to be presented for final passage on the 2nd day of May,2023.
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Passed and adopted on final reading on the 2nd day of May,2023.
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