HomeMy WebLinkAbout2007-023-03/06/2007-AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION OF AN INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY AND THE COLORADO DEPART RESOLUTION 2007-023
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION OF AN INTERGOVERNMENTAL
AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY AND THE COLORADO
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION FOR THE
WIDENING OF AN EXISTING SIDEWALK ON THE
SOUTH SIDE OF MULBERRY STREET FROM
DUNN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TO SHIELDS STREET
WHEREAS,the Council has determined that the narrowness of the sidewalk along the south
side of Mulberry Street extending from Dunn Elementary School to Shields Street serves as a
physical obstacle that prevents children from walking to the school because the sidewalk is narrow
and is attached to the street with no intervening parkway strip and because the street contains no bike
lane and carries a daily traffic count of some 22,000 trips; and
WHEREAS, heavy vegetation along the sidewalk further restricts its usefulness to such an
extent that many parents take their children to school by automobile; and
WHEREAS,the Colorado Department of Transportation("CDOT")has established a"Safe
Routes to School Program" which was designed to promote the safety and healthy environmental
conditi
ons for student
s traveling to and from school in order to enable additional numbers of students
to walk or bicycle to school; and
WHEREAS,CDOT has made available to the City the sum of$33,123 under the Safe Routes
to School Program provided that the City will allocate matching funds in the sum of$11,439; and
WHEREAS, the Council has determined that$11,439 can be pledged from Pedestrian Plan
funds in the Transportation budget in order to enable the City to enter into an intergovernmental
agreement with CDOT for the funding of this sidewalk; and
WHEREAS, the Council has determined that it is in the best interests of the City that the
Mayor enter into an intergovernmental agreement with CDOT for the funding of this project.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS that the Mayor is hereby authorized to enter into an intergovernmental agreement with
the Colorado Department of Transportation under the "Safe Routes to School Program" for the
purpose of encumbering federal funds through the Colorado Department of Transportation in the
sum of $33,123, with a City local matching contribution of$11,439 for a total project cost of
$44,562 to fund the widening of an existing sidewalk along the south side of Mulberry Street from
Dunn Elementary School and extending west to Shields Street.
Passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the Cou f the City of Fort C ins this 6th
day March, A.D. 2007.
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City Clerk