HomeMy WebLinkAbout097 - 08/20/2002 - APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED REVENUE AND PRIOR YEAR RESERVES IN THE TRANSPORTATION SERVICES FUND TO B ORDINANCE NO. 097, 2002
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED REVENUE AND
PRIOR YEAR RESERVES IN THE TRANSPORTATION SERVICES
FUND TO BE USED FOR BICYCLE LANE IMPROVEMENTS ALONG WEST
ELIZABETH STREET BETWEEN CITY PARK AVENUE AND SHIELDS STREET
WHEREAS, improvements are needed along West Elizabeth Street between City Park
Avenue and Shields Street in order to mitigate traffic impacts resulting from the inability of the
current roadway to safely accommodate both bicycles and automobiles; and
WHEREAS, the Campus West Community Commercial District Planning Study Report,
completed in December 2001, identified inadequacies along West Elizabeth Street including unsafe
bike lane facilities; and
WHEREAS,the aforementioned report included a recommendation to install seven-foot bike
lanes, increasing the sidewalk width, and providing streetscape improvements; and
WHEREAS,the Colorado Department of Transportation(CDOT)has made available to the
City of Fort Collins, Congestion Mitigation & Air Quality funds in the amount of$246,762 to be
used to fund bicycle lane improvements along West Elizabeth Street between City Park Avenue and
Shields Street,including project design and installing a seven foot continuous pour of concrete(the
"Project"), similar to the bike lanes existing on Shields Street along the Colorado State University
Campus; and
WHEREAS,the Project is planned in conjunction with Pedestrian Plan improvements to the
sidewalk condition and streetscape between City Park Avenue and Shields Street; and
WHEREAS, the estimated cost to design and construct the Project is $307,000; and
WHEREAS, local matching funds needed to cover the cost of improvements and
administrative costs associated the Project,totaling$60,238,have been identified and are available
in the form of prior year reserves in the Transportation Services Fund; and
WHEREAS,the City Council adopted Resolution 2002-065, on July 16, 2002, authorizing
the Mayor to enter into an intergovernmental agreement with the Colorado Department of
Transportation for the receipt of Congestion Mitigation & Air Quality funds to be used to for the
widening and improvement of the on-street bike lanes on West Elizabeth Street between City Park
Avenue and Shields Street; and
WHEREAS, Article V, Section 9, of the Charter of the City of Fort Collins (the"Charter")
permits the City Council to make supplemental appropriations by ordinance at any time during the
fiscal year,provided that the total amount of such supplemental appropriations,in combination with
all previous appropriations for that fiscal year, does not exceed the then current estimate of actual
and anticipated revenues to be received during the fiscal year; and
WHEREAS,Article V,Section 9,of the Charter also permits the City Council to appropriate
by ordinance at any time during the fiscal year such funds for expenditure as may be available from
reserves accumulated in prior years, notwithstanding that such reserves were not previously
appropriated; and
WHEREAS, City staff has determined that the appropriation of funds from the Colorado
Department of Transportation as described herein will not cause the total amount appropriated in the
Transportation Services Fund - West Elizabeth Street Bike Lane Project to exceed the current
estimate of actual and anticipated revenues to be received during any fiscal year; and
WHEREAS, it is the desire of the Council to appropriate the sum of$246,762 in Colorado
Department of Transportation Congestion Mitigation&Air Quality funds, and the sum of $60,238
from Transportation Services Fund prior year reserves for the design and construction of bicycle
lane improvements along West Elizabeth Street between City Park Avenue and Shields Street.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS as follows:
Section 1. That there is hereby appropriated for expenditure from unanticipated revenue
in the Transportation Services Fund - West Elizabeth Bike Lane Project, the sum of TWO
HUNDRED FORTY-SIX THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED SIXTY-TWO DOLLARS($246,762)
from Colorado Department of Transportation Congestion Mitigation&Air Quality funds,to be used
for the design and construction of bicycle lane improvements along West Elizabeth Street between
City Park Avenue and Shields Street.
Section 2. That there is hereby appropriated from prior year reserves in the
Transportation Services Fund,the sum of SIXTY THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED THIRTY-EIGHT
DOLLARS($60,238)to be used for the design and construction of bicycle lane improvements along
West Elizabeth Street between City Park Avenue and Shields Street.
Introduced and considered favorably on first reading and orde, d published this 16th day of
July, A.D. 2002, and to be presented for final passage on the 20th ay of August, A.D. 2002.
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Passed and adopted on final reading this 20th day of August, A.D. 2002.
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