HomeMy WebLinkAbout071 - - APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED REVENUE IN THE WASTEWATER FUND FOR THE STATE HIGHWAY 14 BRIDGE OVER THEORDINANCE NO. 071, 2017
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED REVENUE IN THE WASTEWATER FUND
FOR THE STATE HIGHWAY 14 BRIDGE OVER THE POUDRE RIVER PROJECT
WHEREAS, in 2009, the Colorado Department of Transportation ("CDOT")-initiated a
project to reconstruct the existing Mulberry Bridge spanning the Poudre River (the "Project");
and
WHEREAS, the City recognized an opportunity to collaborate with CDOT to enhance
the new bridge and Mulberry Street through the addition of urban design treatments, irrigated
landscape improvements, and frontage improvements along the City's Mulberry Water
Reclamation Facility (the "Enhancements"); and
WHEREAS, the Enhancements would,be constructed by CDOT and funded by the City;
and
WHEREAS, Resolution12015-96 authorized the City to enter into an intergovernmental
agreement with CDOT, the purpose of which was to define the Enhancements eligible for
reimbursement, to outline long term maintenance responsibilities, and to identify an estimated
reimbursement amount for the Enhancements; and
WHEREAS, associated with the Enhancements, the City agreed to relocate an existing
security gate at the Mulberry Water Reclamation Facility and existing City traffic fiber lines
shown to be in conflict with planned bridge improvements and CDOT agreed to apply an
estimated credit of$100,000 against the estimated $1,210,000 for such relocation (the "Credit");
and
WHEREAS, once construction was completed, City staff worked with CDOT staff to
reconcile the City's reimbursement amount using actual CDOT construction costs for the
Enhancements and CDOT subsequently issued a direct payment to the City for $83,044, the
actual amount of the Credit; and
WHEREAS, this item will appropriate the revenue for the Credit payment from CDOT to
the City for $83,044 into the Wastewater Fund for the work performed by the City; and
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WHEREAS, the City Council finds that expending funds from the Wastewater Fund on
the Enhancements relates to, logically connects with, and benefits the utility rate payers by
making improvements to the area around the Mulberry Water Reclamation Facility; and
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WHEREAS, Article V, Section 9, of the City Charter 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
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WHEREAS, City staff has determined that the appropriation of the Credit described
herein will not cause the total amount appropriated in the Wastewater Fund to exceed the current
estimate of actual and anticipated revenues to be received in that fund during the 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 unanticipated revenue in the
Wastewater Fund the sum of EIGHTY THREE THOUSAND FORTY-FOUR DOLLARS
83,044).for expenditure in the Wastewater Fund for the State Highway 14 Bridge over the
Poudre River Project.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 6th day of
June, A.D. 2017, and to be presented for final passage on the 5th day of July, A.P. 2017.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading on the 5th day of July, A.D. 2017.
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City Clerk
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