HomeMy WebLinkAbout120 - 08/19/2025 - MAKING SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION, APPROPRIATINGORDINANCE NO.120,2025
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
MAKING SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION,APPROPRIATING
PRIOR YEAR RESERVES AND AUTHORIZING TRANSFERS OF
APPROPRIATIONS FOR TRANSFORT MAINTENANCE FACILITY
UPGRADES AND RELATED ART IN PUBLIC PLACES
A.The Federal Transit Administration (“FTA”)awarded Transfort $1,500,000
in Fiscal Year 2023 grant funding through the Community Project
Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending Program to partially fund and support critical
upgrades and repairs to the Transfort Maintenance Facility.
B.The City will utilize these funds for upgrades to the Transit Maintenance
Facility in 2025,including HVAC and electrical updates,gas detection system,and garage door
replacements.
C.This grant requires a local match of $375,000,which will be funded using a
transfer from the transit system line item of the 2050 Tax Parks Rec Transit OCF Fund to
the Transit Services Fund.
D.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.
E.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.
F.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.
G.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.
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H.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 that this
appropriation will not cause the total amount appropriated in the 2050 Tax Parks Rec
Transit OCF 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.
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.
J.The City Manager has recommended the transfer of $375,000 from the
2050 Tax Parks Rec Transit OCF Fund to the Transit Services Fund and $3,750 From
the Transit Services Fund to the Cultural Services and Facilities Fund determined that the
purpose for which the transferred funds are to be expended remains unchanged.
K.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 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.
L.This Project involves construction estimated to cost more than $250,000
and,as such,City Code Section 23-304 requires one percent of these appropriations to
be transferred to the Cultural Services and Facilities Fund for a contribution to the Art in
Public Places program (“APP Program”).
M.The grant 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
Government,the source of these funds.
N.The total project cost of $375,000 has been used to calculate the
contribution to the APP program.
0.The amount to be contributed in this Ordinance will be $3,750.
P.The City Council wishes to designate the appropriation herein for the
Transfort Maintenance Facility Upgrades Project as an appropriation that shall not lapse
until the earlier of the expiration of the grant (or donation)or the City’s expenditure of all
funds received from such grant (or donation).
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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 ONE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND
DOLLARS ($1,500,000)to be expended in the Transit Services Fund for the Transfort
Maintenance Facility Upgrades Project.
Section 2.There is hereby appropriated from prior year reserves in the 2050
Tax Parks Rec Transit OCF Fund the sum of THREE HUNDRED SEVENTY-FIVE
THOUSAND DOLLARS ($375,000)to be expended in the 2050 Tax Parks Rec Transit
OCF Fund for transfer to the Transit Services Fund to expended therein for the Transfort
Maintenance Facility Upgrades Project.
Section 3.The unexpended and unencumbered appropriated amount of TWO
THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS ($2,925)in the Transit
Services Fund is hereby authorized for transfer to the Cultural Services and Facilities
Fund and appropriated and expended therein to fund art projects under the APP Program.
Section 4.The unexpended and unencumbered appropriated amount of
SEVEN HUNDRED NINETY-FIVE DOLLARS ($750)in the Transit Services Fund is
hereby authorized for transfer to the Cultural Services and Facilities Fund and
appropriated and expended therein for the operation costs of the APP Program.
Section 5.The unexpended and unencumbered appropriated amount of
SEVENTY-FIVE DOLLARS ($75)in the Transit Services Fund is hereby authorized for
transfer to the Cultural Services and Facilities Fund and appropriated and expended
therein for the maintenance costs of the APP Program.
Section 6.The appropriation herein for the Transfort Maintenance Facility
Upgrades Project 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 completion of the project.
Introduced,considered favorably on first reading on July 15,2025,and approved
on second reading for final passage on August 19,2025.
ATTEST:
‘~ieputy City Clerk
Effective Date:August 29,2025
Approving Attorney:Stefanie Boster and Madelene Shehan
Exhibit:None