HomeMy WebLinkAbout2022-056-05/03/2022-CONFIRMING AND APPROVING THE APPOINTMENT OF ANDY SMITH FOR A SECOND TERM TO THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONE RESOLUTION 2022-056
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
CONFIRMING AND APPROVING THE APPOINTMENT OF ANDY SMITH FOR A
SECOND TERM TO THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE
FORT COLLINS URBAN RENEWAL AUTHORITY
WHEREAS, on January 5, 1982, City Council adopted Resolution 1982-10 establishing
within the City of Fort Collins (the "City") the Fort Collins Urban Renewal Authority (the
"Authority")and designating the Council to serve as the Authority's Board of Commissioners
(the "URA Board"); and
WHEREAS, the laws governing the creation, powers and governance of urban renewal
authorities are in Colorado's "Urban Renewal Law" in Part 1 of Article 25 of Title 31 of the
Colorado Revised Statutes (the "Act"); and
WHEREAS, Sections 31-25-104 and 3 l-25-107 of the Act were amended in 2015 and
2017, respectively, by the Colorado General Assembly to provide that when the adoption of a
new urban renewal plan is being considered on or after January 1, 2016, the membership on the
board of commissioners of the affected urban renewal authority is to be increased to include at
least three, and potentially four, additional commissioners; and
WHEREAS, one commissioner is to be appointed by the board of county commissioners
of the county in which the territorial boundaries of the urban renewal authority area are located,
the second commissioner is to be a board member of a special district selected by agreement of
the special districts levying a mill levy within the boundaries of the urban renewal authority area
and the third commissioner is to be an elected member of a board of education of a school district
levying a mill levy within the boundaries of the urban renewal authority area; and
WHEREAS, if these three new appointments cause the authority's board to have an even
number of commissioners, the mayor of the municipality that has created the urban renewal
authority is to appoint a fourth commissioner to restore an odd number of commissioners to the
authority's board; and
WHEREAS,as required by the Act, in 2018 the membership on the URA Board expanded
to include an appointment by the Larimer County Board of Commissioners, a joint appointment
by the Poudre School District and the Thompson School District,and an agreed appointment by
the special districts levying property taxes within the Authority's boundaries, and these three
appointees, or their successors, continue to serve on the URA Board; and
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WHEREAS, since these three new appointments increased the URA Board membership
to ten,an even number,the Act required the City's Mayor to appoint another new commissioner
to the URA Board to restore the Board's membership to an odd number; and
WHEREAS,the City Council adopted Resolution 2015-105 setting out a process to follow
for the Mayor's appointment to the URA Board under which the Mayor and one other
councilmember are to interview candidates and make an appointment recommendation to Council
for its approval by resolution; and
WHEREAS, after following that process, the City Council adopted Resolution 2018-044
to appoint Andy Smith to serve as the eleventh commissioner on the URA Board for a 4-year term
beginning on May 25, 2018; and
WHEREAS, Commissioner Smith's term on the URA Board will expire on May 25, 2022;
and
WHEREAS, on May 15, 2018, the City Council adopted Ordinance No. 061, 2018,
repealing and reenacting Division 4 in Article IV of City Code Chapter 2 to implement the General
Assembly's 2015 and 2017 amendments to the Act (the "URA Code") and reaffirming
Commissioner Smith's appointment to the URA Board; and
WHEREAS, Section 2-482(a)(3) of the URA Code provides that the seat now held by
Commissioner Smith is to be a "resident of the City appointed by the Mayor and confirmed by
the City Council by resolution"; and
WHEREAS, Mayor Jeni Arndt has appointed Commissioner Smith, who is a resident of
Fort Collins, to serve for a second term on the URA Board with his new term beginning May 25,
2022, and expiring on May 25, 2026, and is requesting that the City Council confirm this
appointment as required in Section 2-482(a)(3) of the URA Code; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has determined that it is in the best interests of the City and
the URA that Commissioner Smith's reappointment by Mayor Arndt be confirmed by the City
Council.
NOW,THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED 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 Mayor Arndt's appointment of Andy Smith to serve as a
commissioner on the URA Board for a second term is hereby confirmed and approved by the
City Council, with such term to begin on May 25, 2022, and expire on May 25, 2026.
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Passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the Council of the City of Fort Collins this 3rd
day of May, A.D. 2022.
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