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ENGLEWOOD CITY COUNCIL
ENGLEWOOD, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO
Special Meeting
Saturday, September 27, 2003
All Council Mc 1bcrs present signed an "ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF RECEIPT OF NOT ICE" of the
"CALL OF SPECIAL MEETING AND NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING."
I. Call lo Order
The special meeting of the Englewood City Council was ca lled 10 order by Ma yo r Brad shaw at 8:45 a.m ..
in the City Coi...1cil Chambers.
2. Roll Call
Present:
Absent :
A quorum was present.
Also present:
Council Members Nabh olz, Moore , Grazulis , Garrett, Wolosy n,
Yurchick, Bradshaw
None
City Manager Scars
City Attorney Brotzman
Assistant City Manager Flaherty
Deputy City Clerk White
Director Ross, Public Works
Director Kahm, Capital Projects
Director Simpso n, Community Development
3. Ordinances, Resolutions and Mollom
(a) Director Ross presented a recommendation from the Department of Public Works to
approve a resolution to authorize Englewood 's application for Federal fundinp in the 2005-2 010
Transportation lmprovcment Program (TIP). I wish to thank Council for rearranging your sc hedule lo
allow w to lake core of this . We had, kind of. a misunderstanding with DRCOG, he sai d, as to when this
TIP application has lo be in. It has to be in lO them , in wri1ing, by Oc1obcr the 3rd , so the October 6th
Council meeting would no1 work. So, thank you, he said. We are asking you to authorize th is applicati on
on behalf of the citizens of Englewood for the 2005-2010 Transpo nation lmprovemenl Program . ~his
application includes a bike-pedestrian bridge at Dartmouth over the Plane River and a bike -pedestria n
bridge at Oxford , at the golf course, where the golf carts are sharing the bridge with the bicyclists, which
makes for an interesting situation. Bob Simpson and I firmly believe that RTD reall y needs to step forward
on a pedestrian tunnel beneath Santa Fe, but unfonunately there is a policy decisi on out there , by DRCOG ,
that says that thi s really doesn't qualify as a transit improvement It fits in the enhancement categor y, so
while we are going to apply for it, we are going to go to RTD, if we should gel chosen, and say, "this is
your projecl, guys, yo u need to be paying for the bulk of thi s." And there is a reapplic ati on for the South
Broadway SLrcetscape. On the last three TlP 's we have applied fo r thi s and it hasn't scored well enough to
get approved . Well, we received a phone co.II on Tuesday and they sr.id the y have more enhancement
money and 1his project is a go if we want to pursue it. So we ca n get th is into this year's TIP. But we sti ll
need to include thi s in our application. because the deci sio n will not be made undl after this app licati on is
in . With your concurrence, we can go ahead and do the Strcetscape project. from Tufts do"n to Belleview,
in the next year or so. So again, thi s is really found money that we weren 't planning on and Bob Simpson
has graciously s1eppcd forward with his South Broadwa y Action Plan money ... thcre is $200,000.00 st ill in
that budget , that he is willing to mo ve into this, 10 do that portion of the match and then we will o nly be out
an additional $100,000 .00 that we will ha ve to try to find out of the MYCP Budget. But this is a terrific
opportunity , he sai d, because once we let it go ba ck in , then we arc competing against 50 jurisdict ions for
enhancement money and L1cn we are back to ground zero.
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Ma yor Brad shaw asked if lhere were any ques ti ons.
Council Member G11ITett sai d r am always co nfu sed as to how thi s works. Did DRCOG, all of a sud den
acquire more mone y? Director Ross said, act uall y, when th ey do lhc TIP th ey really don't know for sure
how r.iu ch money they have . They make their best gue ss. Then once all the du st se lll cs, th en they figure
out, after we have done all thi s exerci se. how much money they really have and fo r so me reason there was
even more additional money from the last time they did their estimate .
So , Co uncil Member Garrett sa id, in essence, it drop s down to a lower number . Director Ross said yes.
Plus . Ma yor Bradshaw said, we produce too ... we have our positi ve record and it helps a lot. Director Ross
said that is very true . They keep co ming to us.
COUNCIL MEM BER WOLOSYN MOVED, AND IT WAS SECONDED, TO APPROVE AGENDA
ITEM 3 (a)· RESOLUTION NO. 79, SERIES OF 2003.
RESOLUTION NO . 79, SERIES OF 2003
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING APPLICAT ION FOR THE 2005-2010TRANSPORTAT ION
IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM .
Mayor Bradshaw asked if there was any furth~r discussion. There wa & none .
Vote results:
Ayes :
Nays:
Absont:
Moti on carried .
4. Adjo urnment
Council Members Moore , Garrett, Wolosyn, Yurchick, Grazulis ,
Brad shaw
None
Council Member Nabho lz
The mee ting adjourned at 8:50 a.m.
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