HomeMy WebLinkAbout138 - 11/17/2020 - AMENDING CHAPTER 26 OF CITY CODE TO REVISE ELECTRIC RATES, FEES, AND CHARGES ORDINANCE NO. 138, 2020
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
BEING THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE
RELATING TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATIONS
FOR FISCAL YEAR 2021; ADOPTING THE BUDGET FOR
THE FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING JANUARY 1, 2021, AND ENDING
DECEMBER 31, 2021; AND FIXING THE MILL LEVY FOR
PROPERTY TAXES PAYABLE IN 2021
WHEREAS, City Charter Article V, Section 2 provides that the City Manager shall file
with the City Clerk on or before the first Monday in September preceding each "budget term"the
proposed budget for that ensuing budget term; and
WHEREAS, City Charter Article V, Section 1 provides that the City Council is to set by
ordinance the number of fiscal years that shall constitute the City's "budget term"; and
WHEREAS, in 2010, the City's budget term was set in City Code Section 8-1 as being
two fiscal years, so a biennial budget term; and
WHEREAS, under Code Section 8-1, the City's next biennial budget term would be for
fiscal years 2021 and 2022 (the "2021-22 Budget Term"); and
WHEREAS, on May 19, 2020, City Council adopted Ordinance No. 067, 2020,
("Ordinance No. 067") suspending for only the 2021-22 Budget Term the biennial budget term
required by Code Section 8-1 to allow for one-year budget terms for both fiscal years 2021 and
2022 due to the economic turmoil and uncertainty that has occurred because of the COVID-19
global pandemic; and
WHEREAS, on September 1, 2020, the City Manager filed with the City Clerk a
proposed budget for the City of Fort Collins for the fiscal year 2021 (the "Proposed 2021
Budget") as required in Article V, Section 2 of the City Charter and as authorized in Ordinance
No. 067, and included with it an explanatory message, a complete financial plan for each City
fund, appropriate financial statements for each type of fund showing comparative figures for the
last completed fiscal year and the current fiscal year, and the City Manager's recommendation
for the ensuing budget term; and
WHEREAS, Article V, Section 3 of the City Charter requires that, within ten days of the
date of the City Manager's filing of the Proposed 2021 Budget with the City Clerk, the City
Council shall set a time certain for a public hearing on the Proposed 2021 Budget and cause a
notice of the hearing to be published; and
WHEREAS, on September 1, 2020, the City Council adopted Resolution 2020-081
setting the dates for two such public hearings to be conducted on September 15, 2020, and on
October 6, 2020, at regularly scheduled City Council meetings, and City Council ordered notice
of these hearings to be published in the Fort Collins Coloradoan; and
WHEREAS, such notice was published in the Coloradoan on September 6, 2020; and
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WHEREAS, both public hearings were held and conducted on those dates and persons
were given the opportunity to appear before City Council and comment on any or all items and
estimates in the Proposed 2021 Budget; and
WHEREAS, Article V, Section 4 of the City Charter requires that after the public hearing
and before the last day of November of each fiscal year, the City Council shall adopt the budget
for the ensuing budget term by ordinance and appropriate by ordinance on a fund basis and by
individual project for capital projects and federal or state grant projects, such sums of money as
it deems necessary to defray all expenditures of the City during the ensuing fiscal year, based
upon the budget as approved by the City Council; and
WHEREAS, the appropriations in this Ordinance also include appropriations as needed to
transfer monies from the dedicated funds receiving the revenues to the funds from which those
monies will be expended; and
WHEREAS, Article V, Section 5 of the City Charter provides that the annual
appropriation ordinance shall also fix the tax levy in mills upon each dollar of the assessed
valuation of all taxable real property within the City, such levy representing the amount of taxes
for City purposes necessary to provide for payment during the ensuing fiscal year for all properly
authorized expenditures to be incurred by the City, including interest and principal of general
obligation bonds; and
WHEREAS, the City Council finds and determines that the adoption of this Ordinance is
necessary for the public's health, safety, and welfare and therefore, wishes to approve the
Proposed 2021 Budget, as hereafter amended, and authorize the expenditures described in this
Ordinance for the 2021 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. Budget.
a. That the City Council has reviewed the Proposed 2021 Budget, a copy of which is on
file with the office of the City Clerk, and has determined that the amendments
described in Exhibit "A" attached hereto and incorporated by reference should be
made to it.
b. That the Proposed 2021 Budget, as amended by in Exhibit "A", is hereby adopted in
accordance with the provisions of Article V, Section 4 of the City Charter and
incorporated herein by reference (the "2021 Adopted Budget"0.
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c. That the 2021 Adopted Budget shall be on file with and maintained in the office of
the City Clerk and identified as "The Budget for the City of Fort Collins for the Fiscal
Year Ending December 31, 2021, as Adopted by the City Council on November 17,
2020."
Section 3. Appropriations. That there is hereby appropriated out of the reserves
and revenues of the City of Fort Collins, for the fiscal year beginning January 1, 2021, and
ending December 31, 2021, the sum of SIX HUNDRED SIXTY-EIGHT MILLION NINE
HUNDRED NINE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED SIXTY-FOUR DOLLARS ($668,909,564)
to be raised by taxation and otherwise, which sum is deemed by the City Council to be necessary
to defray all expenditures of the City during said budget year, to be divided and appropriated for
the following purposes, to wit:
GENERAL FUND $182,363,393
ENTERPRISE FUNDS
Golf $3,631,3I5
Light&Power
Operating Total $140,369,413
Capital Projects:
Data Management Program and Analytics Platform $228,627
Art in Public Places $14,220
CMMS-Maintenance Management $250,000
Dist.System Impr.&Replace. $1,972,000
New Capacity-Circuits $712,000
Operational Technology $1,045,500
PARENT-Service Center $l 10,000
PARENT-Substation Cap Prj $250,000
Capital Projects Total $4,582,347
Total Light&Power $144,951,760
Water
Operating Total $25,729,475
Capital Projects:
2019-Enviro Learn Center Dam $500,000
Data Management Program and Analytics Platform $153,608
Poudre Canyon Raw Waterline Improvements $3,200,000
Galvanized Service Replacement $500,000
North Mason Waterline $100,000
Distribution Replacement Program $1,000,000
Operational Technology Asset Replacement Prgrm(SCADA) $515,000
Art in Public Places $60,500
CMMS-Maintenance Management $166,285
PARENT-Distro Small Projects $1,540,000
PARENT-Water Prod Replcmt Prgm $1,000,000
PARENT-Watershed Protection $80,000
PARENT-Wtr Meter Replacement $850,000
Capital Projects Total $9,665,393
Total Water $35,394,868
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Wastewater
Operating Total $18,142,466
Capital Projects:
DWRF N. Process Train Clarifier Rplcmnt Design &Const. $6,200,000
Meadow Springs Ranch Vehicle Storage Facility $300,000
North Mason Sewer Main-Design $100,000
Developer Repayments $750,000
Collection Replacement Program $3,000,000
Data Management Program and Analytics Platform $110,741
Operational Technology Asset Replacement Prgrm(SCADA) $7,500
Art in Public Places $119,500
CMMS-Maintenance Management $166,285
PARENT-Collect Small Projects $1,500,000
PARENT-Cured In Place Pipe $600,000
PARENT-Water Recl Replcmt Prgm $1,000,000
Capital Projects Total $13,854,026
Total Wastewater $31,996,492
Stormwater
Operating Total $10,818,183
Capital Projects:
2017-Castlerock SW Remediation $750,000
2017-Magnolia St Outfall Ph 1 $500,000
2019-N Mason Area Drainage $1,500,000
Data Management Program and Analytics Platform $100,024
Art in Public Places $77,100
Stream Rehabilitation Program $3,100,000
Poudre Levee Program(Design and some constructio») $1,000,000
Boxelder Watershed Dams $200,000
Land Acquisition $250,000
Glenmoor Pond Enhancements $250,000
Cured-in-Place Pipe Lining $450,000
CMMS-Maintenance Management $55,000
Developer Repays $510,000
Master Planning $450,000
Stormwater Basin Improvements $1,500,000
Capital Projects Total $10,692,I24
Total Stormwater $21,510,307
Broadband $19,563,710
TOTAL ENTERPRISE FUNDS $257,048,452
INTERNAL SERVICE FUNDS
Benefits $36,329,581
Data&Communications $10,403,689
Equipment $12,077,533
Self Insurance $5,318,250
Utility Customer Service&Administration $18,935,437
TOTAL INTERNAL SERVICE FUNDS $83,064,490
SPECIAL REVENUE&DEBT SERVICE FUNDS
Capital Expansion $5,409,839
Capital Leasing Corporation $4,795,226
Cemeteries $773,514
Cultural Services&Facilities
Operating Total $3,755,537
Capital Projects:
Art in Public Places $188,512
Capital Projects Total $188,512
Total Cultural Services&Facilities $3,944,049
General Employees'Retirement $5,729,250
Keep Fort Collins Great $2,906,991
Museum $1,079,098
Natural Areas $12,635,594
Parking $2,663,243
Perpetual Care $26,027
Recreation $8,227,939
Sales and Use Tax $7,822,657
Transportation Capital Expansion Fee $2,159,054
Transit Services $23,368,114
Transportation Services $34,872,691
TOTAL SPECIAL REVENUE&DEBT SERVICE FUNDS $116,413,286
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT FUNDS
Capital Projects Fund
Operating Total $66,000
General City Capital Projects:
CCIP Arterial Intersection Imp $400,000
CCIP Bicycle Infrastructure Imp $350,000
CCIP Bus Stop Improvements $44,414
CCIP Nature in the City $250,000
CCIP Pedestrian Sidewalk-ADA $1,200,000
City Bridge Program $1,700,000
College Signals $969,000
East District Maint Fac $4,800,000
Lemay/Vine Grade Sep Crossing $12,000,000
Oak Street Plaza Renovation $85,000
Parks Raw Water Study $150,000
Railroad Crossing Replacement $125,000
Vine/Timberline Intersection $1,000,000
General City Capital Projects Total $23,073,414
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Total Capital Projects Fund $23,139,414
Community Capital Improvement
Capital Projects:
Afford Housing Capital Program $500,000
Arterial Intersection Imprvmnt $400,000
Bicycle Infrastructure Imprvmt $350,000
Bus Stop Improvements $100,000
Gardens Visitor Ctr Expansion $40,000
Lincoln Avenue Bridge $36,000
Linden St Renovation $12,000
Nature in the City $250,000
Pedestrian Sidewalk-ADA $1,200,000
Poudre River Proj(CCIP only) $50,000
Willow Street Improvements $11,000
Capital Projects Total $2,949,000
Total Community Capital Improvement $2,949,000
Conservation Trust
Operating Total $942,174
Capital Projects:
Poudre Trail at 1-25 $1,500,000
Capital Projects Total $1,500,000
Total Conservation Trust $2,442,174
Neighborhood Parkland
Operating Total $389,355
Capital Projects:
East Comm Pk Maint Fac $1,000,000
Side Hill Neighborhood Park $100,000
Capital Projects Total $1,100,000
Total Neighborhood Parkland $1,489,355
TOTAL CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT FUNDS $30,019,943
TOTAL CITY FUNDS $668,909,564
Section 4. Mill Levy.
a. That the mill levy rate for the taxation upon each dollar of the assessed valuation of
all the taxable real property within the City of Fort Collins shall be 9.797 mills to be
imposed on the assessed value of such property as set by state law for property taxes
payable in 2021, which levy represents the amount of taxes for City purposes necessary
to provide for payment during the 2021 budget year of all properly authorized
expenditures to be incurred by the City, including interest and principal of general
obligation bonds.
b. That the City Clerk shall certify this levy of 9.797 mills to the County Assessor and
the Board of Commissioners of Larimer County, Colorado, in accordance with the
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applicable provisions of law, as required by Article V, Section 5 of the City Charter and
no later than December 15, 2020.
Section 5. That in this Ordinance and the Proposed 2021 Budget, the City Council is
approving the increased use of the City's Conservation Trust Funds to fund the maintenance of
the City's parks because of the financial shortfalls the City is now experiencing and will
experience in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The City Council hereby directs the City
Manager to include in his proposed City budget for 2022 and in the annual appropriation
ordinance presented to City Council in 2022 to implement that budget, a budget offer and
recommendation for Council consideration to replenish Conservation Trust Funds in the amount
of $400,000 used in 2021 for park maintenance so these paid-back funds can be available in
2022 or future years for the City to fund the capital improvements state law authorizes to be
funded with Conservation Trust Funds, subject to the discretion of the City Council to finally
determine whether to proceed in that manner.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 4th day of
November, A.D. 2020, and to be presented for final passage on the 17th day of November, A.D.
2020.
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