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Home My WebLink AboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 05/04/2021 - SECOND READING OF ORDINANCE NO. 051, 2021, AUTHORI Agenda Item 2 Item # 2 Page 1 AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY May 4, 2021 City Council STAFF Jaime Jones, Analyst II Jim McDonald, Cultural Services Director Ingrid Decker, Legal SUBJECT Second Reading of Ordinance No. 051, 2021, Authorizing the City Manager to Accept a Grant Award and Comply with the Terms of the Grant, and Appropriating Unanticipated Grant Revenue in the Cultural Services & Facilities Fund from the Colorado Arts Relief Fund. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This Ordinance, unanimously adopted on First Reading on Apr il 20, 2021, appropriates unanticipated grant revenue in the Cultural Services & Facilities Fund for the Lincoln Center operations. This appropriation includes $100,000 of grant revenues awarded on February 7, 2021, provided by the State of Colorado throug h the Creative Industries Division of the Office of Economic Development to support personnel or business expenses. STAFF RECOMMENDATION Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on Second Reading. ATTACHMENTS 1. First Reading Agenda Item Summary, April 20, 2021 (w/o attachments) (PDF) 2. Ordinance No. 051, 2021 (PDF) Agenda Item 10 Item # 10 Page 1 AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY April 20, 2021 City Council STAFF Jaime Jones, Analyst II Jim McDonald, Cultural Services Director Ingrid Decker, Legal SUBJECT First Reading of Ordinance No. 051, 2021, Authorizing the City Manager to Accept a Grant Award and Comply with the Terms of the Grant, and Appropriating Unanticipated Grant Revenue in the Cultural Services & Facilities Fund from the Colorado Arts Relief Fund. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The purpose of this item is to appropriate unanticipated grant revenue in the Cultural Services & Facilities Fund for the Lincoln Center operations. This appropriation includes $100,000 of grant revenues awarded on February 7, 2021, provided by the State of Colorado through the Creative Industries Division of the Office of Economic Development to support personnel or business expenses. STAFF RECOMMENDATION Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading. BACKGROUND / DISCUSSION The Colorado Arts Relief Fund provides support to private and public cultural and entertainment venues that have had their revenues affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This funding initiative was passed by the State of Colorado legislature during the First Extraordinary Session of the 72nd General Assembly from the Small Business Relief Program. The grant specifies that the funds can be utilized to cover personnel, operations, and activities from February 1 to May 31, 2021. The Lincoln Center will direct these funds to support hourly and classified personnel and other operation expenses related to the impact of COVID-19. The grant does not require the City to sign a post-award agreement. CITY FINANCIAL IMPACTS Lincoln Center resources in the Cultural Services & Facilities Fund would increase by $100,000. There are no matching fund requirements. ATTACHMENT 1 -1- ORDINANCE NO. 051, 2021 OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT A GRANT AWARD AND COMPLY WITH THE TERMS OF THE GRANT, AND APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED GRANT REVENUE IN THE CULTURAL SERVICES FUND FROM THE COLORADO ARTS RELIEF FUND WHEREAS, on December 7, 2020, Governor Polis signed Senate Bill 20B-001 creating the Small Business Relief Program; and WHEREAS, SB20B-001 includes $7.5 million for the Colorado Arts Relief Fund to support arts, cultural and entertainment artists, crew members and organizations affected by the COVID-19 pandemic (the “Fund”); and WHEREAS, the City’s Cultural Services department applied for and received a grant from the fund of $100,000 to help fund Lincoln Center personnel, activities and operations, which have been negatively affected by the loss of revenue from events that had to be cancelled over the last year due to COVID-19; and WHEREAS, the City is authorized to enter into intergovernmental agreements, such as grant agreements, to provide any function, service or facility, under Article II, Section 16 of the City Charter and Section 29-1-203 of the Colorado Revised Statutes; and WHEREAS, City Code Section 1-22 requires intergovernmental agreements or cooperative activities between the City and other governmental entities to be submitted to the City Council for review and approval by ordinance or resolution; and WHEREAS, the Grant does not require execution of a post-award agreement, but City staff recommends that the City Council authorize the City Manager, or the City Manager’s, designee to accept the Grant award and comply with any State requirements associated with receipt of the Grant; and WHEREAS, this appropriation benefits public health, safety and welfare of the residents of Fort Collins and serves the public purpose of helping the City maintain the viability of its arts facility; and WHEREAS, Article V, Section 9, of the City Charter permits the City Council to make supplemental appropriations by ordinance at any time during the fiscal year, provided that the total amount of such supplemental appropriations, in combination with all previous appropriations for that fiscal year, does not exceed the current estimate of actual and anticipated revenues to be received during the fiscal year; and WHEREAS, the City Manager has recommended the appropriation described herein and determined that this appropriation is available and previously unappropriated from the Cultural Services Fund and will not cause the total amount appropriated in the Cultural Services Fund to exceed the current estimate of actual and anticipated revenues to be received in that fund during any fiscal year. -2- NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS as follows: Section 1. That the City Council hereby makes and adopts the determinations and findings contained in the recitals set forth above. Section 2. That the City Council hereby authorizes the City Manager, or the City Manager’s designee, to accept the Grant award and comply with the requirements of the Colorado Arts Relief Fund grant program. Section 3. That there is hereby appropriated from unanticipated grant revenue in the Cultural Services Fund the sum of ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($100,000) for expenditure in the Cultural Services Fund to support hourly and classified personnel and other operation expenses related to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 20th day of April, A.D. 2021, and to be presented for final passage on the 4th day of May, A.D. 2021. __________________________________ Mayor ATTEST: _______________________________ City Clerk Passed and adopted on final reading on the 4th day of May, A.D. 2021. __________________________________ Mayor ATTEST: _______________________________ City Clerk