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Department of Parks and Recreation
Reference: Resolution Authorizing the Signing of a Grant Agreement with Adams County for Grant Funding in the Amount Not to Exceed $983,650.00 for the "CFRT (Colorado Front Range Trail) Along the South Platte River" project; and Authorizing the City Manager to Sign and Execute the Grant Agreement.
To: Mayor Richard N. McLean and Members of City Council
Through: Manuel Esquibel, City Manager
Prepared By: Gary Wardle, Director of Parks and Recreation
Mark Heidt, Assistant Director of Parks and Recreation
Date Prepared: May 19, 2015
PURPOSE
A Resolution authorizing the City of Brighton to enter into a Grant Agreement with Adams County, for grant funding in the amount not to exceed $983,650.00 for the "CFRT (Colorado Front Range Trail) Along the South Platte River" project; and authorizing the City Manager to sign and execute the Grant Agreement.
BACKGROUND
The CFRT (Colorado Front Range Trail) Along the South Platte River is located adjacent to and east of the South Platte River from E-470 to the trailhead at Southern Street. This grant funded project travels through Ken Mitchell Park and Open Space and Erger's Pond Open Space. The CFRT is the planned trail alignment along the Front Range of Colorado from the Wyoming border to the New Mexico border. Brighton lies within the "Prairie trail section" of the CFRT and will connect to the Adams County Fairgrounds and Denver.
The total cost for the "CFRT Along the South Platte River" project is estimated at $2,611,530.00. In 2014 the City received $950,000.00 (36.38% of total project) of GOCO (Great Outdoors Colorado) funding for the "CFRT from E-470 to Brighton" project which is the south end of this grant funded project. The City, also in 2014, applied for and received grant funding from a Colorado Division of Parks and Wildlife - State Trails Grant funding for the "CFRT - Erger's Pond Open Space Section" in the amount of $110,470.00 (4.23% of total...
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