HomeMy WebLinkAbout091 - 08/15/2017 - APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED REVENUE RELATING TO A FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY GRANT FOR ACQU (2)ORDINANCE NO. 091, 2017
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED REVENUE RELATING TO
A FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY GRANT
FOR ACQUISITION AND REMEDIATION OF PROPERTY
ADJOINING THE DOWNTOWN WHITEWATER PARK AREA
WHEREAS, staff has spent the last three years acquiring various property interests on the
south side of Vine Street just to the east of College Avenue and the acquisitions are linked to the
Downtown Whitewater Park project as well as to the Poudre River conservation and protection
projects; and
WHEREAS, after the 2013 flood, Federal Emergency Management Agency ("FEMA")
monies were directed to Colorado and, the City applied for FEMA's Hazard Mitigation Grant to
help cover the costs of acquiring properties along Vine; and
WHEREAS, Natural Areas has been awarded a grant in the amount of $232,509 (the
Grant") by FEMA to acquire and remediate a property adjoining the Downtown Whitewater
Park area; and
WHEREAS, the City's match portion towards the Grant is $33,216 and was previously
appropriated in 2015 in offer 21.1 into a capital project fund; and
WHEREAS, use of the Grant funds requires that the property be managed to benefit the
floodway and floodplain in this area; and
WHEREAS, the property will be incorporated into the Whitewater Park and will be
accessible to the public and infrastructure on the property will be removed and the site will be
remediated and vegetated; and
WHEREAS, Article V, Section 9, of the City Charter permits the City Council 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, City staff has determined that the appropriation of the Grant from FEMA to
support Natural Areas will not cause the total amount appropriated in the Capital Projects fund to
exceed the current estimate of actual and anticipated revenues to be received in that fund during
any 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.
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Section 2. That there is hereby appropriated from unanticipated grant revenue in the
Capital Projects Fund the sum of TWO HUNDRED THIRTY-TWO THOUSAND FIVE
HUNDRED NINE DOLLARS ($232,509) to be used by Natural Areas for acquisition and
remediation of a property adjoining the Downtown Whitewater Park area for the benefit of the
Poudre River Floodway and Floodplain.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 18th day of
July, A.D. 2017, and to be presented for final passage on the 15th day of August, A.D. 2017.
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Passed and adopted on final reading on the 15th day of August, A.D. 2017.
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