HomeMy WebLinkAbout045 - 04/20/1999 - APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED REVENUE IN THE TRANSPORTATION SERVICES FUND FOR THE METROPOLITAN PLANNIN ORDINANCE NO. 45, 1999
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED REVENUE AND PRIOR
YEAR RESERVES IN THE TRANSPORTATION SERVICES FUND FOR
THE METROPOLITAN PLANNING ORGANIZATION AND
SMARTTRIPS TRANSPORTATION DEMAND MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS
WHEREAS, The North Front Range Transportation and Air Quality Planning Council
("NFRT & AQPC") is the regional Metropolitan Planning Organization ("MPO") and lead air
quality planning agency for the North Front Range; and
WHEREAS, the MPO is funded with federal transportation program dollars administered
by the Colorado Department of Transportation ("CDO"I "),based on the federal fiscal and program
year of October 1 to September 30; and
WHEREAS,the City's SmartTrips Transportation Demand Management Program promotes
awareness and participation in alternative modes of transportation, including but not limited to car
pooling, van pooling, biking, and public transit services, in concert with the goal of shifting ten
percent of single occupant vehicle trips to other modes; and
WHEREAS, the SmartTrips program relies heavily on federal funding as well as working
closely with other cities around the region and the business community in an effort to leverage
resources to fund the program; and
WHEREAS,the NFRT&AQPC has identified $273,019,from the following sources,to be
appropriated for MPO projects, and the SmartTrips program to design, promote and implement
additional programming in 1999:
Administrative Programming
Transportation Efficiency Act for the 21st Century (TEA -21) Funds $ 54,752
Matching Funds from MPO Member Entities 12,019
State Highway 14 and I-25 Interchange Study Project
Matching Funds from MPO Member Entities 10,000
MPO Projects and SmartTrips Programming
Unexpended, Unencumbered Carryover Funds from FY1997-1998
MPO Program 173,958
Matching Funds from MPO Member I�ntities 22,290
Total $ 273,019
WHEREAS, in addition, staff is recommending that $8,003, in unanticipated revenue,
received in the Van Pool program in 1998 from the sale of equipment, be appropriated and
reprogrammed for use in the 1999 budget; and
WHEREAS, Article V, Section 9, of the Charter of the City of Fort Collins (the "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 conjunction with
all previous appropriations for that fiscal year, do not exceed the current estimate of actual and
anticipated revenues to be received during the fiscal year; and
WHEREAS,Article V, Section 9,of the Charter also permits the City Council to appropriate
by ordinance at any time during the fiscal year such funds for expenditure as may be available from
reserves accumulated in prior years, notwithstanding that such reserves were not previously
appropriated; and
WHEREAS, it is the desire of the Council to appropriate the sum of $273,019 from
unanticipated revenues and $8,003 from prior year reserves in the Transportation Services Fund to
provide additional programming for MPO Programs and the Smart Trips Transportation Demand
Management Program.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS as follows:
Section 1. That there is hereby appropriated for expenditure from unanticipated revenue in
the Transportation Services Fund,the sum ofTWO HtJNDRED SEVENTY-THREE THOUSAND
NINETEEN DOLLARS ($273,019) from the following sources:
Transportation Efficiency Act for the 21 st Century (TEA-21) Funds $ 54,752
Matching Funds from MPO Member Entities 44,309
Carryover Funds from FY1997-1998 MPO Program 173,958
Total $ 273,019
Section 2. That there is hereby appropriated for expenditure from prior year reserves in the
Transportation Services Fund the sum of EIGHT THOUSAND THREE DOLLARS ($8,003)to be
used to provide additional programming for the 1999 Van Pool budget within the Smart Trips
Transportation Demand Management Program.
Introduced and considered favorably on first reading and oared published this l-th day of
fi March, A.D. 1999, and to be presented for nal passage on thc!Oth day of ApryYA D., 999.
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Passed and adopted on final reading this 20th day of April, A.D. 199�.
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