HomeMy WebLinkAbout190 - 12/02/2025 - APPROPRIATING PRIOR YEAR RESERVES FOR A DEVELOPMENTORDINANCE NO.190,2025
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING PRIOR YEAR RESERVES FOR A DEVELOPMENT
CONTRIBUTION TO CONSTRUCTION AND AUTHORIZING TRANSFERS OF
APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE WEST PROSPECT ROAD AND PROSPECT LANE
PEDESTRIAN INTERSECTION IMPROVEMENT PROJECT AND RELATED ART IN
PUBLIC PLACES
A.This Ordinance appropriates developer contribution funds to the West
Prospect Road and Prospect Lane Pedestrian Intersection Improvement project (the
“Project”).
B.The Active Modes Plan recommends bicycle and pedestrian improvements
at locations where they could reduce vehicular-pedestrian crashes.Vehicle-pedestrian
crashes and vehicle-cyclist crashes are more likely to result in severe injuries or fatalities.
C.FC Moves staff and Engineering staff evaluated five recommendations
where improvements were likely to have a significant impact.The City successfully
applied in 2022 and 2023 for Highway Safety Improvement Program (“HSIP”)grant funds
to make improvements at these locations.The Project is one of these identified locations.
City Council appropriated the HSIP grant and local funding in September 2024
(Ordinance No.132,2024).Design has begun at all five locations,and construction is
anticipated in 2026.
D.A private development project,The Standard at Fort Collins,provided a
development contribution according to the terms of its development agreement for
pedestrian improvements on Prospect Road in the amount of $20,000 in 2018.These
pedestrian improvements on Prospect Road will be constructed as part of the Project.
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 recommended the appropriation described herein and
determined that the funds to be appropriated are available and previously unappropriated
from the Transportation Improvements fund and that this appropriation will not cause the
total amount appropriated in the Transportation Improvements 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 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.
H.The City Manager recommended the transfer of $20,000 from The Standard
at Fort Collins Development Contribution account in the Transportation Improvements
fund to the Project capital account in the Capital Projects fund and determined that the
purpose for which the transferred funds are to be expended remains unchanged.
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 (“APP”)program.
J.The Project cost of $20,000 has been used to calculate the contribution to
the APP program.
K.The amount to be contributed in this Ordinance will be $200 of the
development contribution in the Project
L.Article V,Section 11 of the City Charter authorizes the City Council to
designate in the ordinance when appropriating funds for a capital project,that such
appropriation shall not lapse at the end of the fiscal year in which the appropriation is
made,but continue until the completion of the capital project.
M.The City Council wishes to designate the appropriation herein for the Project
as an appropriation that shall not lapse until the completion of the Project.
N.The appropriations in this Ordinance benefit public health,safety and
welfare of the residents and traveling public of Fort Collins and serve the public purpose
of improving transportation infrastructure and safety within the City.
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 prior year reserves in the
Transportation Improvements fund the sum of TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS
($20,000)to be expended in the Transportation Improvements fund for transfer to the
Capital Projects fund for the Project and appropriated therein.
Section 2.The unexpended and unencumbered appropriated amount of ONE
HUNDRED FIFTY-SIX DOLLARS ($156)in the Capital Projects 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 3.The unexpended and unencumbered appropriated amount of
FORTY DOLLARS ($40)in the Capital Projects fund is hereby authorized for transfer to
the Cultural Services and Facilities fund and appropriated therein for expenditure for the
operation costs of the APP program.
Section 4.The unexpended and unencumbered appropriated amount of FOUR
DOLLARS ($4)in the Capital Projects fund is hereby authorized for transfer to the Cultural
Services and Facilities fund and appropriated therein for expenditure for the maintenance
costs of the APP program.
Section 5.The appropriation herein for the 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 November 18,2025,and
approved on second reading for final passage on Dec rnber 2,
ATTEST:
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Effective Date:December 12,2025
Approving Attorney:Heather N.Jarvis
Exhibit:None