HomeMy WebLinkAbout089 - 09/04/2007 - APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED REVENUE IN THE TRANSPORTATION SERVICES FUND - FY 2007-2008 SAFE ROUTES T ORDINANCE NO. 089, 2007
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED REVENUE IN THE TRANSPORTATION SERVICES
FUND - FY 2007-2008 SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL PROJECT TO FUND
SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL PROGRAMMING AT FIVE
FORT COLLINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
WHEREAS the Safe Routes to School Program, established by the Colorado Department ent
of Transportation ("CDOT"), is designed to promote the safety and environmental conditions for
students traveling to and from school and encourage more students to choose walking or bicycling
to and from school; and
WHEREAS,the City's Transportation Planning division applied for and has received a grant
in the amount of $22,208 from CDOT to fund non-infrastructure programming in five local
elementary schools including Bacon Elementary, Beattie Elementary, Laurel Elementary, Lopez
Elementary, and Werner Elementary as a Safe Routes to School Project (the"Project"); and
WHEREAS, the Project will include support for developing the in-class Bike and Walk
Across Colorado program;publish marketing materials to educate parents,students,and teachers on
the facts about walking and bicycling to school;host Back to School meetings for parents,students,
and teachers to discuss,bicycling and walking opportunities to school; educate students at the
selected schools in the Bicycle Colorado Safe Routes to School toolkit curriculum; and provide for
qualitative site audits of bicycle and pedestrian facilities within each school's environment; and
WHEREAS, there is no requirement for local matching funds associated with the Project;
and
WHEREAS,on August 21,2007,City Council adopted Resolution 2007-068 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$22,208, 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 staff has determined that the appropriation of grant funds totaling$22,208
will not cause the total amount appropriated in the Transportation Services Fund- FY 2007-2008
Safe Routes to School 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$22,208 in grant
funds in the Transportation Services Fund-FY 2007-2008 Safe Routes to School project to be used
to provide non-infrastructure Safe Routes to School programming at five local elementary schools.
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
Transportation Services Fund-FY 2007-2008 Safe Routes to School project the sum of TWENTY-
TWO THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED EIGHT DOLLARS ($22,208)representing grant proceeds
from the CDOT Safe Routes to School Program for FY 2007-2008, to be used to provide non-
infrastructure Safe Routes to School programming at five local elementary schools.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 21st day of
August, A.D. 2007, and to be presented for final passage on the ay of August, A.D. 2007.
i
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading on the 4th day of August, A.D. 2007.
v
May
ATTEST:
City Clerk
-2-