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Department of Parks and Recreation
Reference: Resolution Approving the Submittal of a Grant Application to Adams County for an Amount Not to Exceed $983,650.00 for the "CFRT (Colorado Front Range Trail) Along the South Platte River" project; and to Authorize the City Manager to Sign the Grant Application.
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: January 7, 2015
PURPOSE
A Resolution authorizing the City of Brighton to submit to Adams County Open Space a Passive Grant Application requesting 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 to authorize the City Manager to sign the Grant Application.
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. 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.
The concepts of this trails project were presented to City Council along with the Ken Mitchell Lakes Open Space and Park Master Plan in summer of 2006. This trail link to Denver is also noted in Brighton's Greenways and Trails Master Plan, 52-85 Trail Master Plan, Colorado Front Range Trail Master Plan, and the Brighton Parks and Recreation Master Plan Update.
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 application project. The "CFRT from E-470" ends at t...
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