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Home My WebLink AboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 06/21/2022 - SECOND READING OF ORDINANCE NO. 065, 2022, MAKING Agenda Item 1 Item # 1 Page 1 AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY June 21, 2022 City Council STAFF Michelle Provaznik, Director, Gardens on Spring Creek Ted Hewitt, Legal SUBJECT Second Reading of Ordinance No. 065, 2022, Making a Supplemental Appropriation of Fiscal Recovery Funds from Larimer County to the Cultural Services and Facilities Fund for Paid Interns. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This Ordinance, unanimously adopted on First Reading on June 7, 2022, appropriates unanticipated grant revenue in the Cultural Services and Facilities Fund for paid internships at the Gardens on Spring Creek, Neighborhood Services Department and Volunteer Services Division. This appropriation includes $149,559 of grant revenues awarded on April 1, 2022, by the Larimer County Economic and Workforce Development Department. The Workforce Innovation Grant’s funding source is the federal American Rescue Plan Act and will be available until December 31, 2024. STAFF RECOMMENDATION Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on Second Reading. ATTACHMENTS 1. First Reading Agenda Item Summary, June 7, 2022 (w/o attachments) (PDF) 2. Ordinance No. 065, 2022 (PDF) Agenda Item 8 Item # 8 Page 1 AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY June 7, 2022 City Council STAFF Michelle Provaznik, Director, Gardens on Spring Creek Ted Hewitt, Legal SUBJECT First Reading of Ordinance No. 065, 2022, Making a Supplemental Appropriation of Fiscal Recovery Funds from Larimer County to the Cultural Services and Facilities Fund for Paid Interns. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The purpose of this item is to appropriate unanticipated grant revenue in the Cultural Services and Facilities Fund for paid internships at the Gardens on Spring Creek, Neighborhood Services Department and Volunteer Services Division. This appropriation includes $149,559 of grant revenues awarded on April 1, 2022, by the Larimer County Economic and Workforce Development Department. The Workforce Innovation Grant’s funding source is the federal American Rescue Plan Act and will be available until December 31, 2024. STAFF RECOMMENDATION Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading. BACKGROUND / DISCUSSION The Larimer County Economic and Workforce Development Department received nearly $4 million from the American Rescue Plan to provide services to individuals directly impacted by the effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic. It launched the Workforce Innovation Grant process to distribute the funds to support training for the unemployed and underemployed during times of substantial unemployment. Paid internship programs fit the criteria for the Workforce Innovation Grant and local governments were eligible to apply. As many City internships are unpaid, The Gardens on Spring Creek partnered with Neighborhood Services and Volunteer Services to create a cohesive intern strategy and program utilizing 42 paid internships over the course of two years. Unpaid internships place additional burden on students already facing financial hardships in the aftermath of the pandemic. This project was one of nine applications selected to be awarded a grant totaling $149,599, fully funding the program. Funding must be used by December 31, 2024. The Interim City Manager has executed a subrecipient agreement with Larimer County to govern the grant. CITY FINANCIAL IMPACTS The Gardens appropriations in the Cultural Services and Facilities Fund would increase by $149,559 from 2022- 2024 and shared with Neighborhood Services and Volunteer Services per the awarded grant application. There are no matching fund requirements. ATTACHMENTS 1.Larimer County Workforce Grant Application (PDF) ATTACHMENT 1 COPY -1- ORDINANCE NO. 065, 2022 OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS MAKING A SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION OF FISCAL RECOVERY FUNDS FROM LARIMER COUNTY TO THE CULTURAL SERVICES AND FACILITIES FUND FOR PAID INTERNS WHEREAS, Larimer County’s Economic and Workforce Development Department (“EWDD”) received nearly $4 million in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds to assist individuals directly impacted by the effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic; and WHEREAS, the EWDD created the Workforce Innovation Grant process to distribute these ARPA funds to support training for unemployed and underemployed individuals during times of substantial unemployment; and WHEREAS, City staff from the Gardens on Spring Creek partnered with the Neighborhood Services Department and the Volunteer Services Division to create a cohesive intern strategy and program that will fund 42 paid City internships over the course of two years (“the Program”); and WHEREAS, the EWDD selected the Program for funding through the Workforce Innovation Grant process, awarding a grant totaling $149,599, which fully funds the Program; and WHEREAS, the Interim City Manager, on behalf of the City, has executed a subrecipient agreement with Larimer County to govern the grant; and WHEREAS, this appropriation benefits the public health, safety and welfare of the residents of Fort Collins and serves the public purpose of funding a workforce development program; and WHEREAS, Article V, Section 9 of the City Charter permits the City Council, upon recommendation of the City Manager, to make a supplemental appropriation by ordinance at any time during the fiscal year, provided that the total amount of such supplemental appropriation, in combination with all previous appropriations for that fiscal year, do 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 Cultural Services and Facilities Fund and will not cause the total amount appropriated in the Cultural Services and Facilities Fund to exceed the current estimate of actual and anticipated revenues and all other funds to be received in this Fund during this fiscal year; and WHEREAS, Article V, Section 11 of the City Charter authorizes the City Council to designate in the ordinance when appropriating funds for a federal, state or private grant, that such appropriation shall not lapse at the end of the fiscal year in which the appropriation is made, but continue until the earlier of the expiration of the federal, state or private grant or the City’s expenditure of all funds received from such grant; and -2- WHEREAS, the City Council wishes to designate the appropriation herein from the Fiscal Recovery Funds from Larimer County to the Cultural Services and Facilities Fund for the Program as an appropriation that shall not lapse until the earlier of the expiration of the grant or the City’s expenditure of all funds received from such grant. 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 there is hereby appropriated from new revenue or other funds in the Cultural Services and Facilities Fund the sum of ONE HUNDRED FORTY-NINE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED FIFTY-NINE DOLLARS ($149,559) to be expended in the Cultural Services and Facilities Fund for the Program. Section 3. That the appropriation herein from the Fiscal Recovery Funds from Larimer County to the Cultural Services and Facilities Fund for the Program is hereby designated, as authorized in Article V, Section 11 of the City Charter, as an appropriation that shall not lapse at the end of this fiscal year but continue until the earlier of the expiration of the grant or the City’s expenditure of all funds received from such grant. Introduced, considered favorably on first reading and ordered published this 7th day of June, A.D. 2022, and to be presented for final passage on the 21st day of June, A.D. 2022. Mayor ATTEST: City Clerk Passed and adopted on final reading this 21st day of June, A.D. 2022. Mayor ATTEST: City Clerk