HomeMy WebLinkAbout059 - 05/07/2013 - APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED GRANT REVENUE IN THE TRANSPORTATION SERVICES FUND FOR THE DESIGN, EQUIPM ORDINANCE NO. 059, 2013
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED GRANT REVENUE IN THE TRANSPORTATION
SERVICES FUND FOR THE DESIGN, EQUIPMENT PROCUREMENT AND
IMPLEMENTATION OF A TRAFFIC-,RESPONSIVE TRAFFIC SIGNAL SYSTEM
WHEREAS,the City Council has adopted Resolution 2013-032 authorizing the City to enter
into a contract with the Colorado Department of Transportation to obtain and use CMAQ funds to
design and implement a traffic responsive signal system at signals adjacent to the railroad tracks in
the vicinity of Lemay, Riverside, and Mulberry; and
WHEREAS, a traffic responsive traffic signal system is able to react to unusual changes in
traffic and automatically implement timings that best serve the actual conditions in the field at that
time; and
WHEREAS,the City's Traffic Operations Department has been awarded a$248,370 Federal
Congestion Mitigation Air Quality(CMAQ) grant to design, procure equipment, and implement a
traffic responsive traffic signal system at select intersections that are impacted by railroad and truck
operations in the City (the"Project"); and
WHEREAS_ ,the Project will be implemented at intersections along North College Avenue,
Riverside Avenue,Mulberry Street,and Lemay Avenue where trains and heavy trucks impact traffic
on those major streets; and
WHEREAS, the CMAQ grant also requires that the City provide matching funds for the
Project in the amount of$51,630,which funds are available in the current Traffic Operations budget;
and
WHEREAS, the Project is estimated to cost $300,000 with the funding coming from the
Federal CMAQ grant and City local overmatch funds; 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 Grant revenue as
described herein will not cause the total amount appropriated in the Transportation Services Fund
to exceed the current estimate of actual and anticipated revenues during fiscal year 2013.
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
Transportation Services Fund the sum ofTWO HUNDRED FORTY-EIGHT THOUSAND THREE
HUNDRED SEVENTY DOLLARS ($248,370) for the design, equipment procurement, and
implementation of a Traffic Responsive Traffic Signal System.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 16th day of
April, A.D. 2013, and to be presented for final passage on the 7th day of May, A.D. 2013.
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Passed and adopted on final reading on the 7th day of May, A.D. 2013.
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