HomeMy WebLinkAbout042 - 04/01/2025 - APPROPRIATING PRIOR YEAR RESERVES AND AUTHORIZING TRANSFERS RELATED TO 49 U.S.C. § 5339(b) PROGRAM FORDINANCE NO.042,2025
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING PRIOR YEAR RESERVES AND AUTHORIZING
TRANSFERS RELATED TO 49 U.S.C.§5339(b)PROGRAM
FUNDING FOR ACCESSIBILITY ENHANCEMENTS TO THE
TRANSIT SYSTEM
A.Transfort and Colorado State University (“CSU”)provide coordinated public
transit services within the City’s municipal boundaries and growth management area,
including constructing and maintaining bus stop facilities for the public and students of
CSU.
B.Transfort is working to upgrade bus stops throughout its service area to
improve Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (“ADA”)accessibility and purchase new
transit amenities,creating a more inclusive and welcoming environment for all riders of
public transit (the “Project”).
C.To support the Project,Transfort applied for and was awarded $2,411,550
in Fiscal Year 2024 grant funding (the “Grant”)through the Federal Transit
Administration’s (“FTA”)Grants for Buses and Bus Facilities Competitive Program (49
U.S.C.§5339(b)),which requires a local match of $415,450.
D.Transfort will utilize the award and local match to upgrade concrete pads at
existing bus stops,purchase and install transit amenities,improve the concrete
infrastructure at the Downtown Transit Center,and construct new ADA-compliant bus
stops to accommodate future northward expansion of the Transfort system.
E.A portion of the local match is being transferred from the Community Capital
Improvement Program Fund in the amount of $222,450.
F.Transfort also anticipates receiving a $193,000 contribution for the local
match from CSU pursuant to an IGA,which will reimburse the appropriated local matching
funds for the portion of the Grant that has been committed to the improvement of nineteen
existing bus stops within CSU’s jurisdiction as well as the purchase and installation of
shelters.This portion of the local match is being appropriated as new and unanticipated
revenue,to be provided by CSU’s Alternative Transportation Fee Advisory Board
(“ATFAB”).
G.This appropriation benefits public health,safety,and welfare of the
residents of Fort Collins and the traveling public and serves the public purpose by
improving accessibility of the public transit system,removing systemic barriers,investing
in equitable access to sustainable modes of travel and essential services,and ensuring
individuals of all ages and abilities can engage in the community.
H.Article V,Section 9 of the City Charter permits the City Council,upon
recommendation of the City Manager,to make a supplemental appropriation by ordinance
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at any time during the fiscal year,provided that the total amount of such supplemental
appropriation,in combination with all previous appropriations for that fiscal year,do not
exceed the current estimate of actual and anticipated revenues and all other funds to be
received during the fiscal year.
The City Manager has recommended the appropriation described herein
and determined that the funds to be appropriated are available and previously
unappropriated from the Transit Services Fund and that this appropriation 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 this Fund during
this fiscal year.
J.The City Manager has recommended the appropriation described herein
and determined that the funds to be appropriated are available and previously
unappropriated from the Community Capital Improvement Projects Fund and that this
appropriation will not cause the total amount appropriated in the Community Capital
Improvement Projects Fund to exceed the current estimate of actual and anticipated
revenues and all other funds to be received in this Fund during this fiscal year.
K.Article V,Section 10 of the City Charter authorizes the City Council,upon
recommendation by the City Manager,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 a fund or capital project in
which the amount appropriated exceeds the amount needed to accomplish the purpose
specified in the appropriation ordinance.
L.The City Manager has recommended the transfer of $222,450 from the
Community Capital Improvement Program Fund to the Transit Services Fund and
determined that the purpose for which the transferred funds are to be expended remains
unchanged.
M.All of the funds appropriated in this Ordinance for the Project are ineligible
for use in the APP Program due to restrictions placed on them by the Federal Transit
Authority and Colorado State University Funds,the source of these funds.
N.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
or donation,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 donation or the City’s expenditure of all funds received from such
grant or donation.
0.The City Council wishes to designate the appropriation herein for
Accessibility Enhancements to the Transit System as an appropriation that shall not lapse
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until the earlier of the expiration of the grant or the City’s expenditure of all funds received
from such grant.
In light of the foregoing Recitals,which the Council hereby makes and adopts as
determinations and findings,BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
FORT COLLINS as follows:
Section 1.There is hereby appropriated from new revenue or other funds in the
Transit Services Fund the sum of TWO MILLION FOUR HUNDRED ELEVEN
THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS ($2,411,550)to be expended in the
Transit Services Fund for Accessibility Enhancements to the Transit System.
Section 2.There is hereby appropriated from new revenue or other funds in the
Transit Services Fund the sum of ONE HUNDRED NINETY-THREE THOUSAND
DOLLARS ($193,000)to be expended in the Transit Services Fund for Accessibility
Enhancements to the Transit System.
Section 3.There is hereby appropriated from prior year reserves in the
Community Capital Improvement Program Fund the sum of TWO HUNDRED TWENTY-
TWO THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS ($222,450)to be expended in
the Community Capital Improvement Program Fund for transfer to the Transit Services
Fund for Accessibility Enhancements to the Transit System.
Section 4.The appropriation herein for Accessibility Enhancements to the
Transit System 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 funds received
from such grant.
Introduced,considered favorably on first reading on March 18 25,and approved
on second reading for final passage on April 1,2 5.
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Effective Date:April 11,2025
Approving Attorney:Madelene Shehan
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