HomeMy WebLinkAbout179 - 12/20/2011 - APPROPRIATING PRIOR YEAR RESERVES IN THE GENERAL FUND FOR TRANSFER TO THE TRANSIT SERVICES FUND AND ORDINANCE NO. 179, 2011
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING PRIOR YEAR RESERVES IN THE GENERAL FUND
FOR TRANSFER TO THE TRANSIT SERVICES FUND AND APPROPRIATING
UNANTICIPATED REVENUE IN THE TRANSIT SERVICES FUND FOR THE SAFE RIDE
HOME WEEKEND BUS SERVICE
WHEREAS,Fort Collins Police Services has had discussions with the Associated Students
of Colorado State University ("ASCSU") about creating an additional transportation option for
students leaving the downtown area on weekend nights; and
WHEREAS, approximately four thousand people exit the downtown area during the late
night hours in connection with the closing of the downtown liquor-licensed establishments; and
WHEREAS,the existing transportation options for people leaving the downtown area during
the late night hours is limited to taxis and the Ram Ride program and'is insufficient to accommodate
the need for transportation services during those hours; and
WHEREAS, in order to increase traffic safety by giving people an additional option for
leaving the downtown area without the necessity of driving automobiles after having been drinking,
ASCSU and Fort Collins Police Services have developed the Safe Ride Home Weekend Bus Service
for the purpose of operating two fixed bus routes on Friday and Saturday nights every weekend
during the term of the agreement, from 11:30 p.m. to 2:30 a.m.; and
WHEREAS,pursuant to Resolution 2011-108,the City Council has determined that it is in
the best interests of the City that the City Manager enter into an intergovernmental agreement with
the Board of Governors of the Colorado State University System , acting on behalf of the ASCSU,
to create the Safe Ride Home Weekend Bus Service; and
WHEREAS, in Ordinance No. 114, 1999,and in subsequent City budgets,the City Council
authorized the use of excess revenue from camera radar funds for other programs intended to
address other City traffic problems; and
WHEREAS, funding for the program will include Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000) from
the Camera Radar Reserve in the General Fund; Thirty Four Thousand Dollars ($34,000) from
ASCSU Student Fees; an estimated Twenty-Five Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($25,500) from
fares generated by a proposed One Dollar($1)per ride fare;and an estimated Ten Thousand Dollars
($10,000)from potential advertising revenues that might be generated by this service; and
WHEREAS,this Ordinance appropriates the total amount of$119,500 in the Transit Services
Fund for the Safe Ride Home Weekend Bus Service; and
WHEREAS,Article V, Section 9 of the City Charter 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, 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
WHEREAS, City staff has determined that the appropriation of the revenue as described
herein will not cause the total amount appropriated in the Transit Services Fund to exceed the
current estimate of actual and anticipated revenues to be received in that fund during any fiscal year.
WHEREAS,Article V,Section 10,ofthe City Charter authorizes the City Council to transfer
by ordinance any unexpended and unencumbered appropriated amount or portion thereof from one
fund to another fund, provided that the purpose for which the transferred funds are to be expended
remains unchanged.
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 prior year reserves in
the General Fund the sum of FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($50,000)for transfer,to the Transit
Services Fund and appropriated therein for the Safe Ride Home Weekend Bus Service.
Section 2. That there is hereby appropriated for expenditure from unanticipated revenue
in the Transit Services Fund the sum of SIXTY-NINE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS
($69,500) for the Safe Ride Home Weekend Bus Service.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 6th day of
December, A.D. 2011, and to be presented for final passage on the 20th day of December, A.D.
2011.
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Passed and adopted on final readin the 20th day of December, A.D. 2011.
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