HomeMy WebLinkAbout140 - 10/02/2001 - APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED REVENUE TO COMPLETE CONSTRUCTION OF A BICYCLE/PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE OVER THE ORDINANCE NO. 140, 2001
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED REVENUE AND PRIOR YEAR RESERVES
IN THE TRANSPORTATION SERVICES FUND TO BE USED TO COMPLETE
CONSTRUCTION OF A BICYCLE/PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE OVER THE POUDRE RIVER
COMPLETING THE BICYCLE/PEDESTRIAN CONNECTION
FROM RIVERSIDE TO LEMAY ALONG STATE HIGHWAY 14
WHEREAS,in the fall of 1999,the City applied for and received a grant from the Colorado
Department of Transportation("CDOT")for Congestion Mitigation&Air Quality("CMAQ")funds
for the purpose of providing an alternative analysis of intersection improvements and construction
of those improvements as determined at State Highway 14 and Lemay Avenue; and
WHEREAS, the scope of the improvements scheduled for the aforementioned project
included the design and construction of a bicycle/pedestrian bridge across the Poudre River, on the
south side of Mulberry Street (State Highway 14), completing the bicycle/pedestrian connection
from Riverside Avenue to Lemay Avenue; and
WHEREAS,the estimated cost to design and construct the bicycle/pedestrian bridge across
the Poudre River and complete the existing bicycle/pedestrian connection from Riverside Avenue
to Lemay Avenue is $998,007; and
WHEREAS, additional appropriations, totaling $385,730 are needed to complete the
aforementioned improvements; and
WHEREAS, the Colorado Department of Transportation ("CDOT") has made available to
the City of Fort Collins, Congestion Mitigation&Air Quality funds in the amount of$173,859, to
be used for the completion of a bicycle/pedestrian bridge across the Poudre River and complete the
bicycle/pedestrian connection from Riverside Avenue to Lemay Avenue ; and
WHEREAS, local matching funds needed associated with the CDOT contract, totaling
$36,141, have been identified, and are available in the form of prior year reserves in the
Transportation Services Fund; and
WHEREAS, the remaining appropriations needed to construct the improvements, totaling
$175,730, will also come from prior year reserves in the Transportation Services Fund; and
WHEREAS, the City Council adopted Resolution 2001-110, on September 18, 2001,
authorizing the City to enter into an intergovernmental agreement with CDOT for the receipt of
Congestion Mitigation & Air Quality funds to be used to complete construction of the
bicycle/pedestrian bridge across the Poudre River on the south side of Mulberry Street and complete
the bicycle/pedestrian connection from Riverside Avenue to Lemay Avenue; 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 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,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$173,859 in Colorado
Department of Transportation Congestion Mitigation&Air Quality funds,and$211,871 from prior
year reserves in the Transportation Services Fund to be used to complete construction of the
bicycle/pedestrian bridge across the Poudre River on the south side of Mulberry Street and complete
the bicycle/pedestrian connection from Riverside Avenue to Lemay Avenue.
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, State Highway 14 and Lemay Avenue Intersection project,the
sum of ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY-THREE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED FIFTY-NINE
DOLLARS($173,859)from Colorado Department of Transportation Congestion Mitigation and Air
Quality funds,to be used to complete construction of the bicycle/pedestrian bridge across the Poudre
River on the south side of Mulberry Street and complete the bicycle/pedestrian connection from
Riverside Avenue to Lemay Avenue.
Section 2. That there is hereby appropriated from prior year reserves in the
Transportation Services Fund, State Highway 14 and Lemay Avenue Intersection project, the sum
of TWO HUNDRED ELEVEN THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED SEVENTY-ONE DOLLARS
($211,871)to be used to complete construction of the bicycle/pedestrian bridge across the Poudre
River on the south side of Mulberry Street and complete the bicycle/pedestrian connection from
Riverside Avenue to Lemay Avenue.
Introduced and considered favorably on first reading and ordered published this 18th day of
September,A.D.2001,and to be presented for final passage on the 2nd day of October, A.D. 2001.
ATTEST: Mayor
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Passed and adopted on final reading this 2nd day of October, A.D. 2001.
ATTEST: Mayor
City Clerk