HomeMy WebLinkAbout061 - 05/15/2007 - APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED REVENUE IN THE TRANSIT SERVICES FUND TO FUND PROGRAMMING THAT RELIEVES U ORDINANCE NO. 061, 2007
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED REVENUE IN THE TRANSIT
SERVICES FUND TO FUND PROGRAMMING THAT
RELIEVES URBAN CONGESTION
WHEREAS,in 2007 the City discontinued funding for local matching dollars used to provide
Transportation Demand Management ("TDM") programming; and
WHEREAS, City staff, in working with the North Front Range Transportation and Air
Quality Planning Council, has successfully petitioned for and received approval to de-program the
original 2007 TDM Congestion and Mitigation Air Quality ("CMAQ") funds to be reallocated to
fund the following three programs managed by Transit Services:(1) Bicycle Coordinator Program;
(2) Transfort Test Ride Marketing Program; and(3) Transfort New Fixed Routes Marketing; and
WHEREAS, the Colorado Department of Transportation ("CDOT") approved a total of
$249,883 in CMAQ for the following programs:
Bicycle Coordinator Program - to promote bicycle use within
the City $ 35,000
Transfort Test Ride Marketing Program- to promote
transit use among the City's largest employers 70,000
Transfort New Fixed Route Marketing Program - promote
and increase public awareness of the new fixed routes 144,883
Total $ 249,883
WHEREAS, a portion of the aforementioned federal funds, totaling $16,173, has already
been appropriated in the 2007 budget established for the Bicycle Coordinator Program; and
WHEREAS,no additional matching funds are required as the City's share is being met from
existingappropriations within the Transit Services Fund; 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 staff has determined that the appropriation of the Congestion Mitigation
and Air Quality Grant funds,administered through the Colorado Department of Transportation,will
not cause the total amount appropriated in the Transit Services Fund Bicycle Coordinator,Transfort
Test Marketing,and Transfort New Fixed Route Marketing programs 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 Council to appropriate the sum of$233,710 in Congestion
Mitigation and Air Quality funds in the Transit Services Fund to be used to: promote bicycle use
within the City($18,827); promote transit use among the City's largest employers ($70,000); and
increase public awareness of the new transit fixed routes available in 2007 ($144,883).
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 Transit Services Fund- Bicycle Coordinator program the sum of EIGHTEEN THOUSAND
EIGHT HUNDRED TWENTY-SEVEN DOLLARS($18,827)),representing Congestion Mitigation
and Air Quality funds, administered by the Colorado Department of Transportation, to be used to
promote bicycle use within the City.
Section 2. That there is hereby appropriated for expenditure from unanticipated revenue
in the Transit Services Fund - Transfort Test Ride Marketing program the sum of SEVENTY
THOUSAND DOLLARS ($70,000)), representing Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality funds,
administered by the Colorado Department of Transportation, to be used to promote transit use
among the City's largest employers.
Section 3. That there is hereby appropriated for expenditure from unanticipated revenue
in the Transit Services Fund - Transfort New Fixed Route Marketing program the sum of ONE
HUNDRED FORTY-FOUR THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED EIGHTY-THREE DOLLARS
($144,883),representing Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality funds,administered by the Colorado
Department of Transportation, to be used to increase public awareness transit use among the City's
largest employers.
Introduced,considered favorably on first reading,and ordered published this 1 st day of May,
A.D. 2007, and to be presented for final passage on the 15th d f May, A.D. 2007.
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Passed and adopted on final reading on the 15th day of May, A 007.
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City Clerk
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