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AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY September 21, 2021
City Council
STAFF
Jim McDonald, Cultural Services Director
Ted Hewitt, Legal
SUBJECT
Second Reading of Ordinance No. 103, 2021, Appropriating Unanticipated Shuttered Venue Operators Grant
Revenue in the Cultural Services & Facilities Fund for the Lincoln Center.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This Ordinance, unanimously adopted on First Reading on September 7, 2021, appropriates unanticipated
grant revenue in the Cultural Services & Facilities Fund for the Lincoln Center operations. This appropriation
includes $1,243,768 of grant revenues awarded on July 15, 2021, provided by the federal government through
the Small Business Administration to support personnel or business expenses.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on Second Reading.
ATTACHMENTS
1. First Reading Agenda Item Summary (w/o attachments) (PDF)
2. Ordinance No. 103, 2021 (PDF)
Agenda Item 7
Item # 7 Page 1
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY September 7, 2021
City Council
STAFF
Jim McDonald, Cultural Services Director
Ted Hewitt, Legal
SUBJECT
First Reading of Ordinance No. 103, 2021, Appropriating Unanticipated Shuttered Venue Operators Grant
Revenue in the Cultural Services & Facilities Fund for the Lincoln Center.
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 $1,243,768 of grant revenues awarded on July 15,
2021, provided by the federal government through the Small Business Administration to support personnel or
business expenses.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading.
BACKGROUND / DISCUSSION
The Shuttered Venue Operators Grant (SVOG) was established by the Economic Aid to Hard-Hit Small Businesses,
Nonprofits, and Venues Act and amended by the American Rescue Plan Act. The program includes more than $16
billion in grants to shuttered venues. It is administered by the Small Business Administration’s Office of Disaster
Assistance. The SVOG program provides support to live venue operators or promoters, theatrical prod ucers, live
performing arts organization operators, museum operators, motion picture theater operators or owners, and talent
representatives, including entities of these types owned by state or local governments. This funding initiative was
signed into law on December 27, 2020, as Section 324 of the Economic Aid to Hard-Hit Small Businesses, Nonprofits,
and Venues Act, part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (Public Law No.116-260). That Section 324 was
amended by Section 5005 of the American Rescue Plan Act (Public Law No. 117-2), which was signed into law on
March 11, 2021. The grant requires that the funds be utilized to support specific and approved budgeted expenses
including support for contractors (artists), which represents $563,000 of the total grant amount. Funds may only be
expended on allowable costs incurred during the period beginning on March 1, 2020, through December 31, 2021.
All funds must be spent by July 14, 2022.
CITY FINANCIAL IMPACTS
Lincoln Center resources in the Cultural Services & Facilities Fund would increase by $1,243,768. There are no
matching fund requirements
ATTACHMENT 1
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ORDINANCE NO. 103, 2021
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED SHUTTERED VENUE OPERATORS GRANT
REVENUE IN THE CULTURAL SERVICES & FACILITIES FUND FOR THE
LINCOLN CENTER
WHEREAS, the City of Fort Collins has been awarded a grant in the amount of $1,243,768
(the “Grant”) by the Small Business Administration’s Office of Disaster Assistance through the
Shuttered Venue Operators Grant (“SVOG”) program; and
WHEREAS, the SVOG provides financial support to live venue operators or promoters,
theatrical producers, live performing arts organization operators, museum operators, motion
picture theater operators or owners, and talent representatives, including entities of these types
owned by state or local governments; and
WHEREAS, the Grant may be used for a variety of types of expenses, including payroll
costs, utility costs, worker protection costs, payments to independent contractors, and advertising,
transportation, and capital expenditures related to producing a theatrical or live performing arts
production; and
WHEREAS, Grant funds must be expended by July 14, 2022, on expenses allowed under
the SVOG program; and
WHEREAS, the Grant does not require a financial or in-kind match by the City; and
WHEREAS, to receive the Grant the City must sign and return a Notice of Award from the
U.S. Small Business Association, requiring the City to comply with applicable federal regulations,
including the uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for
Federal Awards; and
WHEREAS, this appropriation benefits public health, safety and welfare of the residents
of Fort Collins and serves the public purpose of supporting the performing and visual arts in the
Fort Collins community; 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 and all
other funds 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 & Facilities Fund and will not cause the total amount appropriated in the Cultural Services
& Facilities Fund to exceed the current estimate of actual and anticipated revenues and all other
funds 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 their designee,
to execute the Notice of Award or other forms reasonably required for purposes of receiving the
Grant.
Section 3. That there is hereby appropriated from unanticipated grant revenue in the
Cultural Services & Facilities Fund the sum of ONE MILLION TWO HUNDRED FORTY-
THREE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED SIXTY-EIGHT DOLLARS ($1,243,768) for
expenditure by the Lincoln Center in the Cultural Services & Facilities Fund on allowable
expenses under the Grant.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 7th day of
September, A.D. 2021, and to be presented for final passage on the 21st day of September, A.D.
2021.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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Interim City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading on the 21st day of September, A.D. 2021.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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Interim City Clerk