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HomeMy WebLinkAbout148 - 12/15/2020 - MAKING SUPPLEMENTAL APPPROPRIATIONS OF CORONAVIRUS AID, RELIEF, AND ECONOMIC SECURITY (CARES) ACT FU ORDINANCE NO. 148, 2020 OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS MAKING SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS OF CORONAVIRUS AID, RELIEF, AND ECONOMIC SECURITY (CARES) ACT FUNDING FOR TRANSFORT OPERATING ASSISTANCE, PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE, AND CONTRACTED SERVICE COSTS RELATED TO PREPARATION FOR AND RESPONSE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC WHEREAS, in response to the public health emergency resulting from the spread of the Novel Coronavirus 2019 ("COVID-19"), the City Manager proclaimed a local emergency on March 13, 2020, and City Council extended such proclamation with its adoption of Resolution 2020-030; and WHEREAS, the City received grant revenue from the Federal Transit Agency ("FTA") in the form of Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security ("CARES") Act appropriations to urbanized areas; and WHEREAS, the FTA CARES Act funding supports capital, operating, and other transit agency expenses to prepare for, and respond, to COVID-19 without requiring a local match; and WHEREAS, in the FTA CARES Act funding replaced General Fund and Transit Fund monies that would have been the basis of Transit spending during the current fiscal year; and WHEREAS, the FTA CARES Act funding was disbursed through apportionments to FTA Urbanized Area Formula programs; Fort Collins' Transfort Department being designated as a primary recipient for this geographical Transportation Management Area("TMA"); and WHEREAS,the City's Transfort Department received a total of$10,368,067 for the TMA; and WHEREAS,Transfort is responsible for allocating and dedicating funds to smaller transit agencies in the TMA; and WHEREAS, $174,736 of the funds will be allocated to the Berthoud Area Transportation System (`SATs"), and $1,473,705 of the funds to the North Front Range Metropolitan Planning Organization ("NFRMPO"); the remaining $8,719,626 is allocated to Fort Collins' Transfort Department; and WHEREAS, the City's Transfort Department will use these CARES Act funds for operating assistance, preventative maintenance, and contracted service costs for 2020 and 2021; and WHEREAS, this appropriation benefits public health, safety and welfare of the residents of Fort Collins and serves the public purpose of providing critical transportation services and complementary ADA paratransit services to the Fort Collins' community; and -1- WHEREAS, Article V, Section 9, of the City Charter permits the City Council, upon recommendation of the City Manager, 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, the City Manager has recommended the appropriation described herein and determined that this appropriation is available and previously unappropriated from the Transit Services Fund and will not cause the total amount appropriated in the Transit Services Fund to exceed the current estimate of actual and anticipated revenues to be received in that fund during this fiscal year. NOW,THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS as follows: Section 1. That the City Council hereby makes and adopts the determinations and findings contained in the recitals set forth above. Section 2. That there is hereby appropriated from grant revenue in the Transit Services Fund the sum of TEN MILLION THREE HUNDRED SIXTY-EIGHT THOUSAND SIXTY- SEVEN DOLLARS ($10,368,067) for expenditure from the Transit Services Fund for operating assistance, preventative maintenance, and contracted service costs related to preparation for and response to the COVID-19 pandemic during the 2020 and 2021 fiscal years. Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 1st day of December, A.D. 2020, and to be presented for final passage on the 15th day of December, A.D. 2020. ATTEST: of FORrc -k •;o� EAL i t y C •CpLORAp�• Passed and adopted on final reading on the 15th day of December A.D. 2020. Mayor ATTEST: FORr SEAL Vw City rk c04ORAD -2-