HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 12/07/2021 - SECOND READING OF ORDINANCE NO. 153, 2021, APPROPR Agenda Item 3
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AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY December 7, 2021
City Council
STAFF
Nina Bodenhamer, City Give Director
SUBJECT
Second Reading of Ordinance No. 153, 2021, Appropriating Philanthropic Revenue by City Give for Park
Planning and Development for the 9/11 Memorial at Spring Park.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This Ordinance, unanimously adopted on First Reading on November 16, 2021, appropriates $10,000 in
philanthropic revenue received by City Give for Park Planning and Development. The charitable gift is received
from Hydro Construction Charitable Fund and designated for the 9/11 Memorial at Spring Park.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on Second Reading.
ATTACHMENTS
1. First Reading Agenda Item Summary, November 16, 2021 (w/o attachments) (PDF)
2. Ordinance No. 153, 2021 (PDF)
Agenda Item 10
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AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY November 16, 2021
City Council
STAFF
Nina Bodenhamer, City Give Director
Ted Hewitt, Legal
SUBJECT
First Reading of Ordinance No. 153, 2021, Appropriating Philanthropic Revenue by City Give for Park Planning
and Development for the 9/11 Memorial at Spring Park.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The purpose of this item is to appropriate $10,000 in philanthropic revenue received by City Give for Park
Planning and Development. The charitable gift is received from Hydro Construction Charitable Fund and
designated for the 9/11 Memorial at Spring Park.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading.
BACKGROUND / DISCUSSION
A collaboration between Poudre Fire Authority and the City, the 9/11 Memorial at Spring Park will be located
adjacent to PFA’s Station 3, which abuts Spring Park in midtown Fort Collins. This memorial will honor the
sacrifices and loss all Americans felt that day while highlighting the local effort of Colorado Task Force 1-Urban
Search and Rescue, a federal disaster response team that deployed 64 Coloradans, including nine firefighters
from the Poudre Fire Authority, to New York City to assist with urban search and recovery.
At the centerpiece of the memorial is an artifact from the World Trade Center, gifted to PFA from the Terry Farrell
Firefighter Fund. The 5-foot-long, 3,059-pound steel I-beam will rest above three pools of cascading water
surrounded with angular seating blocks, reminiscent of “the pile” from which the steel was recovered. Displays
will educate visitors on the events of 9/11, challenges faced by first responders and the story of how the beam
got from New York to Fort Collins. The 9/11 Memorial Park will be the only site of a World Trade Center artifact
in Northern Colorado.
The 9/11 Memorial Park is funded by the generosity of charitable support.
CITY FINANCIAL IMPACTS
This Ordinance will appropriate $10,000 of philanthropic revenue. The funds have been received and accepted
per City Give Administrative and Financial Policy.
ATTACHMENTS
1. Information Sheet (PDF)COPYATTACHMENT 1
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ORDINANCE NO. 153, 2021
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING PHILANTHROPIC REVENUE RECEIVED BY CITY GIVE
FOR PARK PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT FOR
THE 9/11 MEMORIAL AT SPRING PARK
WHEREAS, the City and Poudre Fire Authority (“PFA") have collaborated to create a
memorial to honor and remember the tragic events of September 11, 2001; and
WHEREAS, the memorial will be placed in Spring Park, a neighborhood park in midtown
Fort Collins, adjacent to PFA’s Station 3; and
WHEREAS, the memorial will include a steel beam from the World Trade Center, which
will rest above three pools of cascading water; and
WHEREAS, memorial displays will educate visitors about the events of September 11,
2001, honor the sacrifices made that day, and share the story of a Colorado search and rescue team
that deployed to New York City to assist with urban search and recovery efforts; and
WHEREAS, Hydro Construction Charitable Fund has generously donated $10,000 to City
Give to support the creation of the memorial; and
WHEREAS, this appropriation benefits the public health, safety and welfare of the
residents of Fort Collins and serves the public purpose of creating a civic memorial to honor and
remember the events of September 11, 2001; and
WHEREAS, Article V, Section 9 of the City Charter permits the City Council, upon
recommendation of the City Manager, 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 Interim City Manager has recommended the appropriation described
herein and determined that this appropriation is available and previously unappropriated from the
Capital Projects Fund and will not cause the total amount appropriated in the Capital Projects Fund
to exceed the current estimate of actual and anticipated revenues and all other funds to be received
in that Fund during this fiscal year.
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.
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Section 2. That there is hereby appropriated from philanthropic revenue in the Capital
Projects Fund the sum of TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS ($10,000) for expenditure in the Capital
Projects Fund for Fort Collins Park Planning and Development for the 9/11 Memorial at Spring
Park.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 16th day of
November, A.D. 2021, and to be presented for final passage on the 7th day of December, A.D.
2021.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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Interim City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading on the 7th day of December, A.D. 2021.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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Interim City Clerk