HomeMy WebLinkAbout119 - 08/19/2025 - MAKING SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS, APPROPRIATING PRIOR YEAR RESERVES AND AUTHORIZING TRANSFERS OF AORDINANCE NO.119,2025
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
MAKING SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS,
APPROPRIATING PRIOR YEAR RESERVES AND AUTHORIZING
TRANSFERS OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR TRANSIT
OPERATIONS AND SERVICES AND BUS REPLACEMENT
A.The City’s budget process requires that revenue be projected up to three
years in advance of actual receipt of revenue.
B.Transfort’s budgeting process directs that annual Federal Transit
Administration (“FTA”)grant amounts be projected using estimates based on historical
federal apportionments,anticipated trends,or anticipated changes to the federal funding
bill.
C.Specific confirmed amounts for each grant typically do not become available
until the spring of the award year.
D.As a result of this timing,Transfort must complete a yearly reconciliation
process that appropriates confirmed award amounts for grants used to reimburse the
City’s fiscal year’s expenses.With regard to these FTA grants,the City typically allocates
the funds before it executes the grant agreements.
E.Transfort staff has identified annual budget revisions as an opportunity to
update forecasted amounts to final apportionment amounts,which will improve grant
tracking and reporting.Until funds are fully expended,additional reconciliation may be
required as actual use of funds can result in different match rates.All additional local
match dollars will funded by the 2050 Transit Services Fund.
F.This Ordinance reappropriates unused grant funds for the enhanced
mobility of seniors and individuals with disabilities (“5310 Federal Formula Funds”)which
can be used exclusively for projects that benefit seniors and individuals with disabilities
into non-lapsing business units for fiscal years as follows:
Fiscal Year 2020 5310:$37,153 federal grant funds,$45,389 local
match funds;
Fiscal Year 2022 5310:$73,000 federal grant funds,$51,266 local
match funds;
Fiscal Year 2023 5310:no additional federal grant funds,$55,303 local
match funds;and
Fiscal Year 2024 5310:$43,822 federal grant funds,$12,221 local
match funds.
G.This supplemental appropriation also updates award amounts for a Federal
State of Good Repair Formula Funds (“5337 Federal Formula Funds”),which is a new
federal funding source as of 2023 dedicated to maintaining the MAX fixed guideway in a
state of good repair including projects which replace and repair rolling stock,structures,
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signals and communications,passenger stations and terminals,security equipment and
systems,and maintenance facilities and equipment.
H.This Ordinance transfers $500,000 from the Community Capital
Improvement Project (“CCIP”)Fund into the Transit Fund to be used as local match for
grant funds received for bus purchases.
I.This appropriation benefits the public health,safety,and welfare of the
residents of Fort Collins and serves the public purpose of supporting the essential
transportation services that many transit dependent members of the community rely on
to get to and from work,buy groceries and other essentials,to receive medical care,and
to care for family and friends.
J.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
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.
K.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.
L.Article V,Section 9 of the City Charter permits the City Council,upon the
recommendation of the City Manager,to make supplemental appropriations by ordinance
at any time during the fiscal year from such revenues and funds for expenditure as may
be available from reserves accumulated in prior years,notwithstanding that such reserves
were not previously appropriated.
M.The City Manager has recommended the appropriation described herein
and determined that the funds to be appropriated are available and previously
unappropriated from the 2050 Tax Parks Rec Transit OCF Fund and the Community
Capital Improvement Project Fund and that this appropriation will not cause the total
amount appropriated in the 2050 Tax Parks Rec Transit OCF Fund and The Community
Capital Improvement Project 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.
N.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
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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.
0.The City Manager has recommended the transfer of $317,614 from the
2050 Tax Parks Rec Transit OCF Fund to the Transit Services Fund and $500,000
Community Capital Improvement Project Fund and determined that the purpose for which
the transferred funds are to be expended remains unchanged.
P.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.
Q.The City Council wishes to designate the appropriation herein for Federal
Transit Administration 5310 and 5337 Grant as an appropriation that shall not lapse until
the earlier of the expiration of the 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 SEVEN HUNDRED SIXTY-SEVEN THOUSAND
SEVEN HUNDRED FOURTEEN DOLLARS ($767,714)to be expended in the Transit
Services Fund for Transit Operations and Services.
Section 2.There is hereby appropriated from prior year reserves in the 2050
Tax Parks Rec Transit OCF Fund the sum of THREE HUNDRED SEVENTEEN
THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED FOURTEEN DOLLARS ($317,614)for transfer to the
Transit Services fund to be expended therein for the local grant match for Transit
Operations and Services.
Section 3.There is hereby appropriated from prior year reserves in the
Community Capital Improvement Project Fund the sum of FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND
DOLLARS ($500,000)for transfer to the Transit Services fund to be expended therein for
the local grant match for Transit Bus Replacement.
Section 4.The appropriation herein for the Federal Transit Authority Grants
5310 and 5337 for Transit Operations and Services and Bus Replacement 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 grants.
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Introduced,considered favorably on first reading on July 15,2025,and approved
on second reading for final passage on August 19,2025.
Sr.Deputy City Clerk
Effective Date:August 29,2025
Approving Attorney:Stefanie Boster and Madelene Shehan
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Exhibit:None