HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 09/19/2000 - FIRST READING OF ORDINANCE NO. 126, 2000, APPROPRI AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY ITEM NUMBER: 19
FORT COLLINS CITY COUNCIL DATE: September 19, 2000
STAFF: Donald Vagge
SUBJECT:
First Reading of Ordinance No. 126, 2000, Appropriating Unanticipated Grant Revenue in the
General Fund for Police Services for the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Grant
Project.
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading.
FINANCIAL IMPACT:
The City has received a grant in the amount of $18,500 for the salaries and cost associated with
implementing a Youth Community/Family Conferencing (restorative justice) Program from the
Colorado Division of Criminal Justice, Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (JJDP).
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
Fort Collins Police Services has been awarded a grant under the Colorado Division of Criminal
Justice, Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (JJDP) in the amount of$18,500 for salaries
and costs associated with implementing a Youth Community/Family Conference(restorative justice)
Program. Restorative justice is an alternative method of holding a youth offender accountable for
his or her actions by conferencing with the youth and the victim to develop appropriate
consequences for the offense. By learning to understand the impacts of their actions on the victim,
Criminal Justice Officials are optimistic repeat offenses will be reduced.
Grant funds will be used to hire a part-time (20 hours) contractual "Conferencing Coordinator".
This person will work closely with law enforcement, school district personnel and members of the
juvenile Criminal Justice System to ensure that community/family conferencing is made available
as an option in juvenile criminal cases. The coordinator will accept referrals of juvenile offender
cases and forward these to volunteer facilitators from the community for conferencing. The
coordinator will also be responsible for outcome follow-up and general marketing of the prograrn.
Part of the funds will be directly applied to marketing costs.
Final notice of the grant award was received in August 2000. The grant period is from October 1,
2000 to September 20, 2001.
ORDINANCE NO. 126, 2000
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED GRANT REVENUE IN THE GENERAL FUND
FOR POLICE SERVICES FOR THE JUVENILE JUSTICE AND
DELINQUENCY PREVENTION GRANT PROJECT
WHEREAS,the City of Fort Collins has been awarded a grant in the amount of$18,500 from
the Colorado Division of Criminal Justice, Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention; and
WHEREAS, the grant is to be used for salaries and costs associated with implementing a
Youth Community/Family Conference Program; and
WHEREAS,a part-time Conference Coordinator will be hired to work with law enforcement,
the school district, and members of the juvenile Criminal Justice System to ensure that
community/family conferences are made available, as an option, in juvenile criminal cases; and
WHEREAS,Article V, Section 9,of the Charter of the City of Fort Collins 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 then current estimate of actual and anticipated
revenues to be received during the fiscal year.
. NOW, THEREFORE,BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS that there is hereby appropriated from unanticipated grant revenue in the General Fund
the sum of EIGHTEEN THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($18,500) for expenditure in
the General Fund for the Police Services Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Grant Project.
Introduced and considered favorably on first reading and ordered published this 19th day of
September, A.D. 2000, and to be presented for final passage on the 3rd day of October, A.D. 2000.
Mayor Pro Tem
ATTEST:
City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading this 3rd day of October, A.D. 2000.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk