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Home My WebLink About031969 ORD - 12/17/2019 Ordinance amending the FY 2020 City of Corpus Christi Capital Budget to appropriate $350,000 from the unreserved fund balance in Seawall Improvements; transferring and appropriating said funds into Seawall CIP Fund; adding the Bayshore Park Improvement Project to the Capital Improvement Program; and authorizing a change order to Fulton- Coastcon, Inc. of Corpus Christi, Texas to restore the Bayshore Park Playground Area (Water's Edge Park in Council District 1) for a total amount not to exceed $234,745. WHEREAS, on November 7, 2000, residents of the City of Corpus Christi ("City") passed Proposition 4, Seawall Improvement, which authorized the adoption of a sales and use tax for the promotion and development improvements to the downtown Seawall and for maintenance and operating costs of said Seawall improvements for the life thereof to be imposed for 25 years; WHEREAS, the 1/8th cent sales tax authorized by passage of Proposition 4 was subsequently enacted by the City Council and filed with the State Comptroller of Texas, effective April 1, 2001, to be administered by the Corpus Christi Business and Job Development Corporation Board ("Board"); WHEREAS, the City has determined that it is in the best interest of the citizens of the City that Seawall improvement funds be used to pay for certain infrastructure improvements, namely the repair of the poured-in-place flooring at The Water's Edge Park playground (the "Project"); WHEREAS, the Board and the City Council have previously treated the travel lane of Shoreline Boulevard as the boundary of the Seawall for purposes of the Seawall Improvement Fund; WHEREAS, due to the realignment of Shoreline Boulevard, the original right-of-way for the street is now included within the boundary of The Water's Edge Park and closed to all traffic and the current travel lane of Shoreline Boulevard is on the other side of the park, thus adjusting the boundary so that access to the playground does not require passing a travel lane on Shoreline Boulevard; WHEREAS, The Water's Edge Park is a crucial entertainment destination in the downtown, which attracts visitors and improves the economic development value of the downtown Seawall, and the repair of the poured-in-place flooring will serve to increase the value of the Seawall to the citizens of the City; WHEREAS, the poured-in-place flooring in its current state of disrepair has become a blight on The Water's Edge Park and a detriment to the entertainment and tourist value of the downtown Seawall, necessitating such repairs, and; WHEREAS, The Water's Edge Park is a Seawall improvement for purposes of the Seawall Improvement sales tax approved by the City's voters. NOW THEREFORE BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS THAT: SECTION 1. The Board specifically finds that the foregoing statements included in the preamble of this resolution are true and correct and adopts such findings for all intents and purposes related to the authorization of this procurement. SECTION 2. In accordance with its previous resolution from June of 2018, the Board maintains that the boundary of the seawall improvements shall include public improvements that are connected to the downtown seawall without passing a travel lane on any public street and flood protection features necessary to the downtown seawall flood protection system. As the poured-in-place flooring falls directly A31969 SCANNED into this definition, it is an eligible seawall improvement. SECTION 3. The Water's Edge Park is included in the definition of "improvements to the downtown seawall" in Proposition 4 approved by the City's voters on November 7, 2000, because the park contributes to the value of the downtown seawall for economic development purposes and tourism purposes and connects to and includes portions of the Seawall within its boundary. SECTION 4. The Corpus Christi Job and Development Board authorized the City's Parks and Recreation Department, as an agent of the Corporation, to proceed with the Project in an amount not to exceed $350,000, after City Council approval. SECTION 5. The Corpus Christi Operating and Capital Budget for FY '20 adopted by Ordinance No. #031870 is amended to appropriate $350,000 from the unreserved fund balance in Fund 1120 Seawall Improvements Fund and transferred and appropriated in Seawall CIP Fund 3271 increasing revenues and expenditures in the amount of$350,000. SECTION 6. The Corpus Christi Operating and Capital Budget for FY '20 adopted by Ordinance No. #031870 is amended to add the Bayshore Park Playground (Water's Edge Park) Project. SECTION 7. A change order in an amount not to exceed $234,745 is authorized for Fulton Coastcon, Inc. of Corpus Christi, Texas for restoration of Bayshore Park Playground Area (Water's Edge Park). The work, located in City Council District 1, will not proceed until a notice to proceed has been issued. That the fAregoing 95dinance was read for the first time and passed to its second reading on this the IC-day of V ecer» b-Y; 2019, by the following vote: Joe McComb , Michael Hunter -� Roland Barrera 43/-e__ Ben Molina /fr_ Rudy Garza-- Everett Roy //7R- Paulette M. Guajardo4-, Greg Smith / Gil Hernandez 1-7,7 a_ That the foregoing ordinance was read for the second time and passed finally on this the 17- « I day of Deev2019, by the following vote: Joe McComb j - Michael Hunterii,< Roland Barrera 4 Ben Molina 1-p - Rudy Garza 4,z___ Everett Roy Paulette M. Guajardo sZ Greg Smith A Gil Hernandez 4I ' PASSED AND APPROVED on this the 17 day of *D.ete..- r , 2019. ATTEST: e-lae-CZO"F-FIAPA7f-A - 144.,LI.4:1-1401- Re ecca Huerta J•- cComb City Secretary - ar 031969 CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI CERTIFICATION OF FUNDS (City Charter Article IV, Sections 7 & 8) I, the Director of Financial Services of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas (or his/her duly authorized representative), hereby certify to the City Council and other appropriate officers that the money required for the current fiscal year's portion of the contract, agreement, obligation or expenditure described below is in the Treasury to the credit of the Fund specified below, from which it is to be drawn, and has not been appropriated for any other purpose. Future payments are subject to annual appropriation by the City Council. City Council Action Date: December 17, 2019 Legistar Number: 19-1691 Agenda Item: Ordinance amending the FY 2020 City of Corpus Christi Capital Budget to appropriate $350,000 from the unreserved fund balance in Seawall Improvements; transferring and appropriating said funds into Seawall CIP Fund; adding the Bayshore Park Improvement Project to the Capital Improvement Program; and authorizing a change order to Fulton- Coastcon, Inc. of Corpus Christi, Texas to restore the Bayshore Park Playground Area (Water's Edge Park ion Council District 1) for a total amount not to exceed $234,745. Amount Required: $234,745 per contract $350,000 per ordinance Fund Name Accounting Unit Account No. Activity No. Amount Seawall 1120 251850 350.000 Improvement Fund Total $350,000 Fund Name Accounting Unit Account No. Activity No. Amount Seawall System CIP 3271-707 E15152-01-3271-EXP 350.000 Total $350,000 Fund Name Accounting Unit Account No. Activity No. Amount Seawall System CIP 3271-707 550910 E15152-01-3271-EXP 350,000 Total $350,000 4ckteco i - ?ial Serrvvices Date: 1 ?-p) olci IQ,