HomeMy WebLinkAbout129 - 09/02/2025 - APPROPRIATING PRIOR YEAR RESERVES IN THE WASTEWATER UTILITY FUND FOR THE BLOWER REPLACEMENT PROJECTORDINANCE NO. 129, 2025
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING PRIOR YEAR RESERVES IN THE
WASTEWATER UTILITY FUND FOR THE BLOWER
REPLACEMENT PROJECT AND RELATED ART IN PUBLIC
PLACES
A.The City owns and operates a Wastewater Utility, which includes the Drake
Water Reclamation Facility ("Drake Facility"). The Blower Replacement Project ("Project")
resulted from an unexpected operational failure.
B.The Drake Facility has two secondary process treatment trains, each of
which have six aeration basin zones that are supported by four blowers. In one of the
secondary process treatment trains, one of the two turbo blowers stopped working.
Because the turbo blowers are no longer supported by the manufacturer and are at the
end of their useful life, both need to be replaced to ensure efficient operations and
compliance with applicable water quality regulations and permits. The Project is for the
replacement of these two blowers.
C.Total Project costs for design and construction are estimated at $2,35 0 ,000 .
To date, $650,000 has been allocated from existing replacement program capital funds
for design up to 60 percent. The requested appropriation of $1,700,000 would fund the
remainder of the Project.
D.This appropriation benefits the public health, safety, and welfare of the
residents of Fort Collins and serves the public purpose of: properly treating wastewater
from the service area of the City's Wastewater Utility before it is discharged into the Cache
la Poudre River; ensuring that such treatment is done in an efficient manner for the benefit
of the Wastewater Utility's ratepayers; and ensuring that such treatment is done pursuant
to all applicable water quality regulations and permits so as to protect the health, safety,
and welfare of Fort Collins and its residents.
E.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.
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 Wastewater Fund and that this appropriation will not cause the
total amount appropriated in the Wastewater 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.
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