HomeMy WebLinkAbout038 - 03/20/2007 - APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED REVENUE IN THE CAPITAL PROJECTS FUND - PEDESTRIAN PLAN CAPITAL PROJECT F ORDINANCE NO. 038, 2007
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED REVENUE IN THE CAPITAL
PROJECTS FUND - PEDESTRIAN PLAN CAPITAL PROJECT
FOR IMPROVEMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE
SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL PROGRAM
WHEREAS, the Safe Routes to School Program, established by the Colorado Department
of Transportation ("CDOT"), is designed to promote the safety and environmental conditions for
students traveling to and from school,enabling increased numbers of students walking or bicycling
to and from school; and
WHEREAS, in October 2005, the City and the Larimer County Safe Kids Coalition
organized a Walk a Child to School Day event and collected surveys from parents and students of
Dunn Elementary School(the"School')in an effort to evaluate the conditions of routes to and from
the School; and
WHEREAS, results of the surveys identified a section of sidewalk along the south side of
Mulberry Street between School property and Shields Street that presented an obstacle to children
walking to and from the School; and
WHEREAS,that section of sidewalk is onlytwo and one-half feet wide,adjacent to the street
with no parkway strips and no bike lanes, and is flanked by heavy vegetation causing concern that
the sidewalk is an unsafe route to the School; and
WHEREAS,the City Transportation Planning Division applied for and has received a grant,
in the amount of$33,123, from the CDOT Safe Routes to School Program for FY 2005-2006 (the
"Program"),to be used to improve the safety conditions of the existing sidewalk along the south side
of Mulberry Street from Dunn Elementary School west to Shields Street(the "Project'); and
WHEREAS, the scope of improvements for the Project include widening of the sidewalk
to six feet, removing existing vegetation, relocating two school zone signals, and constructing
ramps at intersections as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act; and
WHEREAS,the estimated cost of the Project is$44,562,and requires local matching funds,
totaling$11,439; and
WHEREAS, staff has identified, and recommends using, existing appropriations in the
Capital Projects Fund - Pedestrian Plan capital project as the source of matching funds for the
Project; and
WHEREAS, on March 6,2007, City Council adopted Resolution 2007-023 authorizing the
Mayor to execute an intergovernmental agreement with the Colorado Department of Transportation
under the "Safe Routes to School Program" for the purpose of encumbering federal funds through
the CDOT in the amount of$33,123,with a City local matching contribution of$11,439 to be used
for the Project; and
WHEREAS,Article V, Section 9, of the Charter of the City of Fort Collins 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 current estimate of actual and anticipated
revenues to be received during the fiscal year; and
WHEREAS,City staffhas determined that the appropriation of Program grant funds,totaling
$33,123,will not cause the total amount appropriated in the Capital Projects Fund-Pedestrian Plan
capital project to exceed the current estimate of actual and anticipated revenues to be received
during the fiscal year; and
WHEREAS,it is the desire of the City Council to appropriate the sum of$33,123 in Program
grant funds,to be used with existing appropriations,totaling$11,439,in the Capital Projects Fund-
Pedestrian Plan capital project to improve an existing sidewalk along the south side of Mulberry
Street from Dunn Elementary School and extending west to Shields Street.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS that there is hereby appropriated for expenditure from unanticipated revenue in the
Capital Projects Fund-Pedestrian Plan capital project,the sum of THIRTY THREE THOUSAND
ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-THREE DOLLARS ($33,123)representing grant proceeds from the
CDOT Safe Routes to School Program for FY 2005-2006, to be used with existing appropriations
in the Capital Projects Fund-Pedestrian Plan capital project to improve an existing sidewalk along
the south side of Mulberry Street from Dunn Elementary School and extending west to Shields
Street.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 6th day of
March, A.D. 2007, and to be presented for final passage on the 20th day of March, A.D. 2007.
Mayor
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Passed and adopted on final reading on the 20th day of ch, A.D. 2007.
Mayo
ATTEST:
City Clerk
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