HomeMy WebLinkAbout006 - 01/18/2000 - APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED REVENUE IN THE CAPITAL PROJECTS FUND TO BE USED TO INSTALL NEW CROSSING ORDINANCE NO. 5, 2000
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED REVENUE
IN THE CAPITAL PROJECTS FUND FOR
GATEWAY MOUNTAIN PARK
WHEREAS,the City of Fort Collins owns a 400-acre site located approximately five miles
up the Poudre Canyon, which property was formerly known as the City's Water Treatment Plant
No.1, a portion of which will be developed as Gateway Mountain Park; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has provided direction to make the Park accessible to the
public by improving the entry road to the Park from Highway 14 ("the Project") at an estimated
design and construction cost of one million one hundred twenty thousand dollars($1,120,000);and
WHEREAS,City Council adopted Resolution 98-113,on August 18, 1998,authorizing the
City to contract with the Colorado Department of Transportation("CDOT") for the realignment of
the entry road to Gateway Mountain Park; and
WHEREAS, on September 1, 1998, City Council adopted Ordinance No. 135, 1998,
appropriating six hundred sixty-four thousand dollars ($664,000) to be used for improvements
associated with the Project, with the understanding that the remaining funds ($456,000) would be
appropriated in 1999 and 2000; and
WHEREAS, CDOT previously made available an additional fifty-nine thousand dollars
($59,000)to be used for the Project and Council appropriated these funds pursuant to Ordinance No.
71, 1999; and
WHEREAS, CDOT recently made available an additional one hundred seventy thousand
dollars ($170,000) for the Project; and
WHEREAS, sufficient City funds were appropriated in Ordinance No. 135, 1998 to match
the new grant total; and
WHEREAS, City Council adopted Resolution 2000-1, amending the intergovernmental
agreement between the City of Fort Collins and the Colorado Department of Transportation for the
design and development of the access road to Gateway Mountain park to reflect the one hundred
seventy thousand dollars ($170,000) additional funding for the Project; and
WHEREAS,Larimer County has made available twenty-five thousand dollars($25,000)for
the Project and has also made available an additional ten thousand dollars ($10,000)to help create
environmental education signage for the Park; 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,do not exceed the then current estimate of actual and anticipated
revenues to be received during the fiscal year; and
WHEREAS,it is the desire of the Council to appropriate funds,totaling one hundred ninety-
five thousand dollars($195,000),from unanticipated revenue in the Capital Projects Fund,Gateway
Mountain Park capital project, to be used for the design and development of the access road to
Gateway Mountain Park; and
WHEREAS,it is the desire of the Council to appropriate ten thousand dollars($10,000)from
unanticipated revenue in the Capital Projects Fund, Gateway Mountain Park capital project, to be
used for the design and development of environmental education signage for the Park.
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
Capital Projects Fund, Gateway Mountain Park capital project, the sum of ONE HUNDRED
NINETY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS($195,000)to be used for the design and development of
the access road to Gateway Mountain Park and TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS($10,000)to be used
for the design and development of environmental education signage for the Park.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading and ordered published this 4th day of
January, A.D. 2000, and to be presented for final passage on the 18th day of January, A.D. 2000.
Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading this 18th day of January, A.D. 2000.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk ,