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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 07/19/2022 - SECOND READING OF ORDINANCE NO. 085, 2022, MAKING Agenda Item 3 Item # 3 Page 1 AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY July 19, 2022 City Council STAFF LeAnn Williams, Recreation Director Ingrid Decker, Legal SUBJECT Second Reading of Ordinance No. 085, 2022, Making Supplemental Appropriations of Grant Funds from the Pools Special Initiative 2022 Program. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This Ordinance, unanimously adopted on First Reading on July 5, 2022, appropriates funding received from the Colorado Department of Local Affairs to recruit and retain public swimming pool employees. STAFF RECOMMENDATION Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on Second Reading. ATTACHMENTS 1. First Reading Agenda Item Summary, July 5, 2022 (w/o attachments) (PDF) 2. Ordinance No. 085, 2022 (PDF) Agenda Item Item # Page 1 AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY July 5, 2022 City Council STAFF LeAnn Williams, Recreation Director SUBJECT First Reading of Ordinance No. 085, 2022, Making Supplemental Appropriations of Grant Funds from the Pools Special Initiative Program Grant. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The purpose of this item is to appropriate funding received by the Colorado Department of Local Affairs to recruit and retain public swimming pool employees. STAFF RECOMMENDATION Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading. BACKGROUND / DISCUSSION On June 21, 2022, Governor Polis announced the Special Pools Initiative Program. On July 1, 2022, the City received confirmation of a grant award in the amount of $12,500 for the recruitment and retention of public swimming pool employees. Grant funds will be spent on costs associated with the recruitment and retention of public swimming pool employees. Eligible expenses include but are not limited to: 1.Any expense related to the recruitment of public swimming pool employees such as marketing and advertising, job board fees and referral bonuses; 2.Any expenses related to the retention of public swimming pool employees such as pay increases, signing bonuses, fringe benefits, team building opportunities and employee appreciation expenses. Grant funds are not to be used for utilities, pool supplies, pool equipment, furniture, maintenance expenses or recruitment and retention for non-swimming pool employees. The grants do not require the City to sign a post-award agreement. Funds must be fully spent by September 20, 2022. Reporting of grant funds is required. All expenses are one-time and will not cause new expenses to be added to future City budgets. There is no City match requirement. Grant funds expire September 30, 2022. CITY FINANCIAL IMPACTS City resources will be increased by $12,500 within the Recreation Fund. These funds will be received from the State of Colorado and spent on the recruitment and retention of lifeguards. ATTACHMENT 1 COPY Agenda Item Item # Page 2 ATTACHMENTS 1. PSI 22-029 award letter (PDF) 2. PSI 2022 ADVANCE FORM.docx (PDF) 3. PSI 2022 FINAL REPORT FORM.docx (PDF) COPY -1- ORDINANCE NO. 085, 2022 OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS MAKING SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS OF GRANT FUNDS FROM THE POOLS SPECIAL INITIATIVE 2022 PROGRAM WHEREAS, on June 21, 2022, Governor Polis announced the Pools Special Initiative 2022 program for local governments to support the operations of public swimming pools across the state for the 2022 summer season; and WHEREAS, this one-time grant program, administered by the Colorado Department of Local Affairs (“DOLA”) is intended to provide incentives to attract and retain public swimming pool employees through the summer and ensure adequate staffing levels that will allow swimming pools to be open at maximum capacity; and WHEREAS, On July 1, 2022, the City received confirmation from DOLA that it would receive a grant in the amount of $12,500; and WHEREAS, the City’s application and the DOLA award letter constitute the grant agreement; and WHEREAS, these funds must be appropriated promptly so that they can be spent on the recruitment and retention of lifeguards during the funding period, which runs from July 1, 2022 through September 30, 2022; and WHEREAS, this appropriation benefits the public health, safety and welfare of the residents of Fort Collins and serves the public purpose of ensuring that City pools can maintain adequate staffing levels to stay open during the summer; 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 Recreation Fund and will not cause the total amount appropriated in the Recreation 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. 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 for the Pools Special Initiative 2022 grant 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 Recreation Fund the sum of TWELVE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($12,500) to be expended for the recruitment and retention of lifeguards. Section 3. That the appropriation herein for the Pools Special Initiative 2022 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 5th day of July, A.D. 2022, and to be presented for final passage on the 19th day of July, A.D. 2022. Mayor ATTEST: City Clerk Passed and adopted on final reading this 19th day of July, A.D. 2022. Mayor ATTEST: City Clerk