HomeMy WebLinkAbout069 - 07/05/2011 - AUTHORIZING THE ACCEPTANCE OF A DONATION OF THREE ACRES OF LAND FROM MIKE SOLLENBERGER AND APPROPRIA ORDINANCE NO. 069, 2011
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
AUTHORIZING THE ACCEPTANCE OF A DONATION
OF THREE ACRES OF LAND FROM MIKE SOLLENBERGER AND
APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED REVENUE IN THE NATURAL AREAS FUND
WHEREAS,on April 11,2001,a local citizen,Mike Sollenberger("Sollenberger"),acquired
a 3.0 acre parcel,the legal description of which is attached hereto as Exhibit"A"and incorporated
herein by this reference(the"Property"),from the previous owner of what is now the Running Deer
Natural Area, for the purpose of establishing a wetlands mitigation project; and
WHEREAS,Sollenberger has provided documentation to the City from the U.S.Army Corps
of Engineers indicating that the wetlands mitigation project is complete; and
WHEREAS,Sollenberger desires to donate the Property to the City's Natural Areas Program;
and
WHEREAS, the value of the Property is estimated to be $15,000; and
WHEREAS,City staff has determined that the donation of the Property by Sollenberger will
assist the City in meeting its goals for natural areas programs and will not significantly increase the
Natural Areas Program maintenance costs; 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 then 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 donated land, as
described herein, will not cause the total amount appropriated in the relevant funds to exceed the
current estimate of actual and anticipated revenues to be received in that fund during the fiscal year;
and
WHEREAS, it is the desire of the City Council to authorize the acceptance of the donation
of the Property from Sollenberger and to appropriate $15,000 of unanticipated revenue in the form
of a donation of land in the Natural Areas Fund.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS as follows:
Section 1. That the City Council hereby approves and authorizes the acceptance by the
Mayor of a deed of conveyance of the Property for the Natural Areas Program.
Section 2. That there is hereby appropriated for expenditure from unanticipated revenue
in the Natural Areas Fund the sum of FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS ($15,000) for Natural
Areas Program purposes.
Introduced,considered favorably on first reading,and ordered published this 7th day of June,
A.D. 2011, and to be presented for final passage on the 5th day of July, A.D. 2011.
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Passed and adopted on final reading on the 5th day of July, A.D. 2011.
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EXHIBIT "A"
A tract-of land situate in the Northwest Quarter of Section 21, Township 7 North,
Range 68 West of the 6th P.M., more particularly described as follows:
Considering the West line of the Northwest Quarter of said Section 21 as bearing
North 00 degrees 17 minutes 23 seconds East as determined by monuments
found at the North Sixteenth Corner of said Section 21 and Section 20 and a
Witness Corner to the West Quarter Corner of said Section 21, and with all
bearings contained herein relative thereto.
Commencing at the West Quarter Corner of said Section 21;
Thence along the West line of the Northwest Quarter of said Section 21 North 00
degrees 17 minutes 23 seconds East 1,025.47 feet to a point on the south line of
a parcel described as Exhibit D-2 at Reception No. 90058841 of the records of
Larimer County;
Thence along said line North 89 degrees 42 minutes 37 seconds East 96.00 feet;
Thence North 41 degrees 10 minutes 00 seconds East 327.00 feet to the True
Point of Beginning;
Thence continuing along said line North 75 degrees 45 minutes 00 seconds East
508.00 feet to the Southeast corner of said parcel;
Thence departing from said line South 00 degrees 30 minutes 00 seconds West
310.72 feet;
Thence South 75 degrees 45 minutes 00 seconds West 361.79 feet;
Thence North 26 degrees 50 minutes 18 seconds West 3.07.88 feet to the True
Point of Beginning, containing 3.00 acres.
County of Larimer, State of Colorado.