HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 06/03/2008 - FIRST READING OF ORDINANCE NO. 060, 2008, APPROPRI ITEM NUMBER: 14
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY DATE: June 3, 2008
FORT COLLINS CITY COUNCIL STAFF: JoAnne Sizemore
SUBJECT
First Reading of Ordinance No. 060, 2008, Appropriating Unanticipated Revenue in the General
Fund for the Purchase, Training and On-going maintenance of the E911 and Emergency Medical
Dispatch Systems at Fort Collins Police Services Dispatch Center.
RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading.
FINANCIAL IMPACT
This Ordinance appropriates the funds provided to Fort Collins Police Services by Latimer
Emergency Telephone Authority (LETA) to purchase equipment, train users and maintain
equipment for emergency services dispatching. The total amount to be appropriated is $59,799.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Larimer Emergency Telephone Authority(LETA)provides funds to the Fort Collins Police Services
to be used for equipment and training to process E911 calls. This Ordinance appropriates those
funds.
BACKGROUND
The Larimer Emergency Telephone Authority (LETA) collects a monthly fee from all county
telephone users to purchase equipment, train users and maintain equipment used to process E911
phone calls and dispatch appropriate emergency services providers.
In 2003, LETA developed a formula for the anticipated annual budget for these services for each
Public Safety Answering Point (Emergency Services Dispatch Center) based on the number of
dispatchers and the number of E911 telephone calls received in the center. Based on this formula,
LETA provides the funds to the individual centers for payment of expenses.The 2008 amount based
on 2007 expenditures for Fort Collins Police Services is $20,261.
In the same manner, a formula was developed for each Public Safety Answering Point for
Emergency Medical Dispatch(EMD)based on the number of dispatchers and the number of EMD
calls handled by the center.The 2008 amount based on 2007 expenditures for EMD for Fort Collins
Police Services is$39,538. The total amount to be appropriated from these two budgets is$59,799.
ORDINANCE NO. 060, 2008
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED REVENUE IN THE GENERAL FUND
FOR E911 AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL DISPATCH SYSTEMS
AT FORT COLLINS POLICE SERVICES DISPATCH CENTER
WHEREAS, Larimer Emergency Telephone Authority ("LETA") collects a monthly fee
from Latimer County telephone users and allocates funds to purchase and maintain the equipment
used to process E911 telephone calls, train users, and dispatch appropriate Emergency Services
Providers; and
WHEREAS,LETA distributes funds to each Emergency Services Dispatch Center based on
the number of dispatchers and the number of E911 telephone calls received at that location; and
WHEREAS,LETA also distributes funds to each Emergency Services Dispatch Center based
on the number of dispatchers and the number of Emergency Medical Dispatch calls handled by that
location; and
WHEREAS, in 2008 the City will receive a total amount of$59,799 from LETA; 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 Larimer Emergency
Telephone Authority funds,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 that
fund 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 revenue in the General Fund the sum
of FIFTY-NINE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED NINETY-NINE DOLLARS ($59,799) for
expenditure in the General Fund for E911 and Emergency Medical Dispatch Systems at Fort Collins
Police Services Dispatch Center.
Introduced,considered favorably on first reading,and ordered published this 3rd day of June,
A.D. 2008, and to be presented for final passage on the 1st day of July, A.D. 2008.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading on the 1 st day of July, A.D. 2008.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk