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AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY DATE: February 7, 2006
FORT COLLINS CITY COUNCIL STAFF: Gary Perman
SUBJECT
First Reading of Ordinance No. 014, 2006, Appropriating Unanticipated Revenue in the General
Fund for the Fort Collins Police Services Drunk Driving Enforcement Program.
RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading.
FINANCIAL IMPACT
The Colorado Department of Transportation has awarded Fort Collins Police Services a 2006 Law
Enforcement Assistance Fund grant in the amount of$11,750 to help reduce the number of drunk
drivers in Fort Collins. No matching funds are required.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
On December 20, 2005, City Council approved a Resolution authorizing the Mayor to enter into a
contract with the Colorado Department of Transportation for Fort Collins Police Services("Police
Services") to apply for a 2006 Law Enforcement Assistance Fund grant in the amount of$11,750
to help reduce the number of drunk drivers in Fort Collins. This Ordinance appropriates the grant
funds.
BACKGROUND
The Colorado Department of Transportation has awarded Police Services a 2006 Law Enforcement
Assistance Fund grant in the amount of$11,750 to help reduce the number of drunk drivers in Fort
Collins. This grant will provide overtime compensation for Fort Collins police officers who are
involved in operations which focus on the detection and arrest of drunk drivers. The stipulations
of the grant are as follows:
• The grant money will be used for overtime compensation for police officers to
perform drunk driving enforcement duties.
• Police Services will conduct at least two sobriety checkpoints or saturation patrols
during 2006.
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• Police Services will be actively involved in the Colorado Department of
Transportation DUI Enforcement public awareness campaign.
• Police Services will make all reasonable efforts to increase DUI arrests by 10%from
the 2005 level.
ORDINANCE NO. 014, 2006
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED REVENUE IN THE GENERAL FUND
FOR THE FORT COLLINS POLICE SERVICES DRUNK DRIVING ENFORCEMENT
PROGRAM
WHEREAS, the Colorado Department of Transportation awarded Fort Collins Police
Services ("Police Services") a 2006 Law Enforcement Assistance Fund grant in the amount of
$11,750; and
WHEREAS, these funds will be used by Police Services to support the Fort Collins Drunk
Driving Enforcement Program; and
WHEREAS, Council adopted Resolution 2005-133 on December 20, 2005, approving and
authorizing the Mayor to execute the Drunk Driving Enforcement Grant Contract#L-06-24 between
the City and the Colorado Department of Transportation; 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 Colorado Department
of Transportation grant 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 ELEVEN THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS($11,750)for expenditure,upon
receipt, in the General Fund for the Fort Collins Police Services Drunk Driving Enforcement
Program.
Introduced and considered favorably on first reading and ordered published this 7th day of
February,A.D. 2006, and to be presented for final passage on the 21 st day of February,A.D. 2006.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading this 21st day of February, A.D. 2006.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk