HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 09/02/2003 - FIRST READING OF ORDINANCE NO. 121, 2003, APPROPRI AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY ITEM NUMBER: 21
FORT COLLINS CITY COUNCIL DATE: September 2, 2003
41 STAFF: Cheryl Donaldson
SUBJECT:
First Reading of Ordinance No. 121, 2003, Appropriating Unanticipated Grant Revenue in the
Cultural Services and Facilities Fund to be Used to Evaluate and Determine the Cultural Affiliation
of Human Remains and Cultural Artifacts in the Museum's Holdings.
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading.
FINANCIAL IMPACT:
The City was awarded a$75,000 grant from the National Park Service. This Ordinance appropriates
that grant money in the Museum's NAGPRA grant project.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
On August 1, 2003 the Museum received written notice that it had been awarded a $75,000
NAGPRA Documentation Grant from the National Park Service. This Documentation Grant will
enable the Museum to evaluate and determine the cultural affiliation of human remains and cultural
artifacts in the Museum's holdings. The overarching goal for this project is to submit three Notices
of Inventory Completion to the National Park Service determined through consultation with several
Californian and Puebloan tribes,the Hopi tribe,the Navajo Nation,and continued consultations with
Plains Indian tribes.
The Museum will utilize the grant funds to hire a NAGPRA Coordinator and part time Collections
Manager,who will organize and facilitate the consultation with tribes,and to cover travel expenses
and consultation fees.
The $75,000 will be disbursed on a reimbursement basis over an eighteen-month period. The
Museum is requesting that Council appropriate the $75,000 into the Museum's NAGPRA grant
project for use over the next two fiscal years, 2003 and 2004.
ORDINANCE NO. 121, 2003
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED GRANT REVENUE
IN THE CULTURAL SERVICES AND FACILITIES FUND
TO BE USED TO EVALUATE AND DETERMINE THE CULTURAL
AFFILIATION OF HUMAN REMAINS AND CULTURAL ARTIFACTS
IN THE MUSEUM'S HOLDINGS
WHEREAS, in 1990, Congress established the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act(NAGPRA),Public Law 101-601,providing for a process for determining the rights
of lineal descendants of Indian tribes,Alaskan Natives,and Native Hawaiian organizations to certain
human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects,or objects of cultural patrimony that are currently
held in.public museums; and
WHEREAS, the Fort Collins Museum has been working towards compliance with the
aforementioned law,by completing a physical inventory of its collections, sending out notification
letters to tribal communities, and consulting with various plains Indian tribes to evaluate and
determine the cultural affiliation of human remains and cultural artifacts in the Museum's holdings;
and
WHEREAS,the Museum's goal is to receive certification of Inventory Completion from the
• National Park Service through consultation with several Californian and Puebloan tribes,the Hopi
tribe, the Navajo Nation, and continued consultations with Plains Indians tribes; and
WHEREAS,on August 1,2003,the Museum was awarded a NAGPRA grant,in the amount
of$75,000 from the Department of Interior, National Park Service; and
WHEREAS, during the remainder of 2003 and into 2004, the Museum will use the grant
proceeds to hire a NAGPRA Coordinator and part-time Collections Manager, to organize and
facilitate the consultation with tribes, and to cover travel expenses and consultation fees; and
WHEREAS, no local matching funds are required; 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 then 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 federal Native American
Graves Protection and Repatriation Act grant as described herein will not cause the total amount
appropriated in the Cultural Services and Facilities Fund Museum budget to exceed the current
estimate of actual and anticipated revenues to be received during any fiscal year; and
•
WHEREAS,it is the desire of the Council to appropriate the sum of$75,000 in National Park
Service NAGPRA grant funds in the Cultural Services andFacilities Fund,Museum NAGPRA grant
project to be used to evaluate and determine the cultural affiliation of human remains and cultural
artifacts in the Museum's holdings.
NOW,THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CYfY OF FORT
COLLINS that there is hereby appropriated for expenditure from unanticipated revenue in the
Cultural Services and Facilities Fund the sum of SEVENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS
($75,000), upon receipt from the National Park Service, to be used to evaluate and determine the
cultural affiliation of human remains and cultural artifacts in the Museum's holdings.
Introduced and considered favorably on first reading and ordered published this 2nd day of
September, A.D. 2003, and to be presented for final passage on the 16th day of September, A.D.
2003.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading this 16th day of September, A.D. 2003.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk