Fort Collins City Council Regular Meeting 8/19/25

Declaring the Day of August 26, 2025, as Women's Equality Day.

This item has been amended to include August 18, 2025 versions of Resolution 2025-077. The purpose of this item is to submit to the ballot a question to extend the expiring 0.25% sales and use tax (the “Community Capital Improvement Program” or “CCIP”) and to refer the operativechanges to the City’s Municipal Code (the “Code”) for the consideration of voters at the November 4, 2025, election. The extension, if approved, is estimated to generate approximately $11 million of annual revenue for the purposes established in the ballot question and ordinance,including the costs of planning, designing, and constructing specified capital projects, and to provide operation and maintenance (“O&M”) for some of those projects as designated. The existing, voter-approved CCIP tax will expire on December 31, 2025. If approved by voters inNovember, the renewal as presented will extend the tax for another ten-year term from January 1, 2026, to December 31, 2035.The project list for the extension of the 0.25% sales and use tax includes:• Pedestrian Sidewalk/ADA Compliance• Arterial Intersection and Streetscapes Improvements Fund• Bicycle Infrastructure and Overpass/Underpass Program• Affordable Housing Capital Fund• Mulberry Pool Recreation Replacement Leveraging Fund• Poudre River North – Health, Access, Parks & Trails• Composting Infrastructure Advancement• Downtown Parks Shop• Community Bike Park• Outdoor Pickleball Complex & Courts• Nature in the City Program• Transfort Bus Replacements & Stop Enhancements• Recreational Paved Trails• Construction Waste Diversion Equipment• Historic Trolley Building Stabilization• Gardens on Spring Creek – Children’s Garden & Infrastructure• Lee Martinez Farm Renovation & Expansion• Timberline Recycling Center ImprovementsThe projects listed in the ballot question include estimated revenue to support each project, including estimated capital costs, five years’ O&M for certain projects, and increases from known inflationary factors. For those projects for which tax revenues may also be used for O&M, thelimitation of five years of O&M was designed to allow those service areas managing those facilities and programs to collect the necessary data and experience from at least two budget cycles to determine the appropriations for ongoing O&M costs while maximizing project revenuessupported by this tax (if approved). Under Section 7-156 of the City Code, any registered elector desiring to protest a proposed ballottitle or submission clause for any initiated measure must file such a protest with the City Clerk, no later than noon on Monday, August 18, 2025. If a protest is filed, a hearing on the protest will be added to the agenda item and must take place before the Council adopts the Resolution settingthe ballot title and submission clause.