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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 th e 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 c ultural 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 Busi ness
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.
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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.
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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.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading on the 4th day of May, A.D. 2021.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Clerk