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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 04/20/2004 - FIRST READING OF ORDINANCE NO. 064, 2004, APPROPR ITEM NUMBER: 14 AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY DATE: April 20, 2004 FORT COLLINS CITY COUNCIL STAFF: Craig Dodd SUBJECT First Reading of Ordinance No. 064, 2004, Appropriating Unanticipated Grant Revenue in the General Fund for the Larimer County Multi-Jurisdictional Drug Task Force. RECOMMENDATION Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading. FINANCIAL IMPACT The City has received a federal grant for the Larimer County Multi-Jurisdictional Drug Task Force from the Office of National Drug Control and its Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area project in the amount of$64,312. The funding cycle for this grant is January 1, 2004 through December 31, 2004. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Fort Collins Police Services ("FCPS") applied for grant funds made available through the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area project which is sponsored and funded by the Office of National Drug Control. The application was on behalf of the Latimer County Multi- Jurisdictional Drug Task Force ("DTF") for federal grant monies to help fund the investigation of illegal narcotics activities in Larimer County. The DTF is staffed by personnel from FCPS, Loveland Police Department, Larimer County Sheriffs Department, Drug Enforcement Administration, and Colorado State University Police Department. The City recently received notification of the grant award in the amount of $64,312. A total of $39,312 will be applied to the purchase of equipment to be used in narcotics investigations by the DTF. The balance of funds, $25,000, will be allocated to the individual departments based on the number of personnel each department dedicates to the DTF and will be used to defer the overtime costs associated with narcotics investigations. As administrator of this grant, FCPS will reimburse the other participating agencies of the DTF for their share of the federal funds applied to overtime. This Ordinance appropriates the$64,312 in new federal grant money. ORDINANCE NO. 064, 2004 OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED GRANT REVENUE IN THE GENERAL FUND FOR POLICE SERVICES FOR THE LARIMER COUNTY MULTI-JURISDICTIONAL DRUG TASK FORCE WHEREAS, Fort Collins Police Services has received a grant from the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area project, sponsored and funded by the Office of National Drug Control, in the amount of$64,312, for the Latimer County Multi-Jurisdictional Drug Task Force ("DTF"); and WHEREAS, the DTF includes Fort Collins Police Services, Loveland Police Department, Larimer County Sheriff's Department, Drug Enforcement Administration, and Colorado State University Police Department; and WHEREAS,the grant funds will be used to purchase equipment for narcotics investigations and to defray the cost of overtime expenditures on narcotics cases; and WHEREAS,Fort Collins Police Services is the administrator of the grant and will allocate the grant monies to the other DTF agencies; 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 current estimate of actual and anticipated revenues to be received during the fiscal year; and WHEREAS, City staff has determined that the appropriation of the grant from the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area project and the Office of National Drug Control as described herein will not cause the total amount appropriated in the General Fund to exceed the current estimate of actual and anticipated revenues to be received in the General Fund during 2004. 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 SIXTY-FOUR THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED TWELVE DOLLARS ($64,312)for expenditure in the General Fund for Police Services to purchase equipment for the DTF and to allocate to individual departments the balance of grant funds to defray overtime costs for the DTF. Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 20th day of April, A.D. 2004, and to be presented for final passage on the 4th day of May, A.D. 2004. Mayor ATTEST: City Clerk Passed and adopted on final reading this 4th day of May, A.D. 2004. Mayor ATTEST: City Clerk