HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 02/17/2009 - FIRST READING OF ORDINANCE NO. 020, 2009, APPROPRI ITEM NUMBER: 9
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY DATE: February 17, 2009
FORT COLLINS CITY COUNCIL STAFF: Jerry Schiager
SUBJECT
First Reading of Ordinance No. 020, 2009, Appropriating Unanticipated Grant Revenue and
Transferring Prior Year Reserves in the Larimer County Drug Task Force Reserve to the General
Fund for the Larimer County Drug Task Force.
RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading.
FINANCIAL IMPACT
The City has received two grant awards for the operation of the Latimer County Drug Task Force.
The first is from the Office of National Drug Control Policy in the amount of$45,150. The second
is the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant FY 2008 in the amount of$21,536. These
grants will be used for Task Force operating expenses. In addition, $210,000 will be transferred
from the Larimer County Drug Task Force forfeiture reserve account to the City of Fort Collins
General fund to establish the 2009 annual operating budget for expenses that are not grant funded.
There is no financial impact to the City of Fort Collins as there are no matching funds required.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Fort Collins Police Services applied to the Office of National Drug Control Policy and the
Department of Justice on behalf of the Latimer County Drug Task Force for federal grant monies
to help fund the investigation of illegal narcotics activities in Larimer County. These grant awards
will be used to offset operating expenses for each participating agency. In addition, because of the
significant decrease in federal funds available for drug enforcement, the Drug Task Force is
transferring $210,000 from its forfeiture reserve account to its 2009 operating budget to cover
unfunded expenses. The majority of the forfeiture reserve account is made up of assets seized from
people engaged in illegal drug activities.
This appropriation is not a request to identify new dollars for the Police Services' 2009 budget. This
action appropriates the$45,150 and$21,536 in new federal grant money and authorizes the transfer
of$210,000 from the forfeiture reserve account for unfunded operating expenses for 2009.
The Larimer County Drug Task Force currently includes Fort Collins Police Services, Loveland
Police Department and the Colorado State University Police Department.
ORDINANCE NO.020, 2009
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED GRANT REVENUE AND
TRANSFERRING PRIOR YEAR RESERVES IN THE
LARIMER COUNTY DRUG TASK FORCE RESERVE TO THE
GENERAL FUND FOR THE LARIMER COUNTY DRUG TASK FORCE
WHEREAS, the Office of National Drug Control Policy has awarded Fort Collins Police
Services ("FCPS") a grant of federal money in the amount of$45,150; and
WHEREAS,the Office of Drug Control and System Improvement has awarded FCPS a grant
in the amount of$21,536; and
WHEREAS, there are $210,000 in prior year reserves in the Latimer County Drug Task
Force Reserve in the General Fund; and
WHEREAS,the two grants and prior reserve funds will be used by the Larimer County Drug
Task Force (the "Task Force") to help fund the investigation of illegal narcotics activities and the
2009 annual operating budget of the Task Force; and
WHEREAS, the Task Force consists of representatives from FCPS, Loveland Police
Department, and the Colorado State University Police Department; and
WHEREAS, the City and FCPS will administer the two grants for the Task Force; 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 current estimate of actual and
anticipated revenues to be received during the fiscal year; and
WHEREAS,Article V, Section 9, of the Charter permits the City Council to appropriate by
ordinance at any time during the fiscal year such funds for expenditure as may be available from
reserves accumulated in prior years, notwithstanding that such reserves were not previously
appropriated; and
WHEREAS,City staff has determined that the appropriation of the 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.
WHEREAS, it is the desire of the City Council to appropriate unanticipated revenue and
prior year reserves in the Latimer County Drug Task Force Reserve for transfer to the General Fund
for appropriation therein for Police Services for the Multi jurisdictional Drug Task Force Grant
Project.
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 SIXTY SIX THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED EIGHTY SIX DOLLARS
($ 66,686) for expenditure, upon receipt, in the General Fund for Police Services for the Multi-
jurisdictional Drug Task Force Grant Project.
Section 2 . That there is hereby appropriated from prior year reserves in the Larimer
County Drug Task Force Reserve the sum of TWO HUNDRED TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS
($210,000) for transfer to the General Fund, and appropriated therein, for Police Services for the
Multi jurisdictional Drug Task Force Grant Project.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 17th day of
February, A.D . 2009, and to be presented for final passage on the 3rd day of March, A.D . 2009 ,
Mayor
ATTEST :
City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading on the 3rd day of March, A.D . 2009 .
Mayor
ATTEST :
City Clerk