HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 08/21/2001 - FIRST READING OF ORDINANCE NO. 124, 2001, APPROPRI AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY ITEM NUMBER: 17
FORT COLLINS CITY COUNCIL DATE: August 21, 2001
STAFF:
Tom McLellan
SUBJECT:
First Reading of Ordinance No. 124, 2001, Appropriating Unanticipated Revenue in the General
Fund and Authorizing the Transfer of Appropriated Amounts Between Accounts and Projects for
the Multi-Jurisdictional Drug Task Force.
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading.
FINANCIAL IMPACT:
The City has received a grant for the Drug Task Force from the Colorado Division of Criminal
Justice in the amount of$290,222. The funding cycle for this grant is July 1,2001 through June 30,
2002. The required local match of $139,419 is already appropriated and available in the Police
Services budget. As administrator of the grant, the City of Fort Collins will also receive $3,500
from Colorado State University as its share of training costs.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
For the past 14 years,Fort Collins Police Services has applied to the Colorado Division of Criminal
Justice for federal drug grant monies to help fund the investigation of illegal narcotics activities.
Fort Collins has once again joined with other members of the Latimer County Drug Task Force,to
include the Loveland Police Department,Latimer County Sheriff's Department,Drug Enforcement
Administration(DEA)and the Colorado State University Police Department,in one application for
funding of the multi jurisdictional drug task force to be administered by the City of Fort Collins.
As administrator of the 2001-2002 grant, Police Services will assure funding to other participating
agencies for their share of the federal funds. The City has recently received notification of a grant
award in the amount of$290,222. The participating agencies will be providing matching funds in
the amount of$319,415. A portion of the $319,415 match �N ill consist of$3,500 from Colorado
State University to fund some training expenses. Fort Collins portion of the match is $139,419.
This match is met via the budgeted salary and fringe benefits of existing Fort Collins Police Services
personnel currently assigned to the Drug Task Force.
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The participating agencies will benefit from grant funds in the areas of overtime,confidential funds,
salaries,training,and lease expenses associated with the off-site facility. This appropriation is not
a request to identify new dollars for Police Services' 2002-2003 budget. This action appropriates
the $290,222 in new federal grant money and $3,500 from Colorado State University.
ORDINANCE NO. 124, 2001
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED REVENUE IN THE GENERAL FUND
AND AUTHORIZING THE TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATED AMOUNTS
BETWEEN ACCOUNTS AND PROJECTS FOR THE
MULTI-JURISDICTIONAL DRUG TASK FORCE
WHEREAS,Fort Collins Police Services has been awarded a grant of federal money in the
amount of$290,222 through the Colorado Division of Criminal Justice; and
WHEREAS,this grant is to be used by the Multi-Jurisdictional Drug Task Force to help fund
the investigation of illegal narcotics activities; and
WHEREAS,the City of Fort Collins will administer the grant for the Larimer County Multi-
Jurisdictional Drug Task Force which includes the Fort Collins Police Department,Loveland Police
Department, Larimer County Sheriff's Department, Drug Enforcement Administration, and the
Colorado State University Police Department; and
WHEREAS, the members of the Multi-Jurisdictional Drug Task Force will provide grant
matching funds in the amount of$319,415; and
WHEREAS, Fort Collins' portion of the matching funds is $139,419 which is included in
the 2001 Police Services budget for this purpose and is available for transfer to the Multi-
Jurisdictional Drug Task Force Grant Project; and
WHEREAS,the City of Fort Collins will also receive$3,500 from Colorado State University
to fund its portion of training costs; and
WHEREAS,Article V, Section 9, of the Charter of the City of Fort Collins (the "Charter")
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; and
WHEREAS,Article V, Section 10,of the Charter authorizes the City Council to transfer by
ordinance any unexpended and unencumbered amount or portion thereof from one fund or project
to another fund or project, provided that the purpose for which the transferred funds are to be
expended remains unchanged.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS as follows:
Section 1. That there is hereby appropriated from unanticipated grant revenue in the General
Fund the sum of TWO HUNDRED NINETY THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED TWENTY-TWO
DOLLARS ($290,222) for expenditure, upon receipt, in the General Fund for Police Services for
the Multi-Jurisdictional Drug Task Force Grant Project.
Section 2. That the unexpended appropriated amount of ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-NINE
THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED NINETEEN DOLLARS($139,419)is authorized fortransfer from
the Police Services operating budget in the General Fund to the Multi-Jurisdictional Drug Task Force
Grant Project.
Section 3. That there is hereby appropriated from unanticipated revenue in the General Fund
the sum of THREE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($3,500) for expenditure, upon
receipt,in the General Fund for Police Services for the Multi-Jurisdictional Drug Task Force Grant
Project.
Introduced and considered favorably on first reading and ordered published this 21 st day of
August,A.D. 2001,and to be presented for final passage on the 4th day of September,A.D. 2001.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading this 4th day of September, A.D. 2001.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk