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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 05/06/2003 - SECOND READING OF ORDINANCE NO. 063, 2003, APPROPR AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY ITEM NUMBER: 9 FORT COLLINS CITY COUNCIL DATE: May 6, 2003FROM Jill Stilwell SUBJECT: Second Reading of Ordinance No. 063, 2003, Appropriating Unanticipated Grant Revenue in the Cultural Services and Facilities Fund to be Used to Implement the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on Second Reading. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The 2003 NAGPRA Repatriation grant will support the stipends and travel for tribal representatives and elders to come to Fort Collins for the repatriation and reinterrment process. The Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes have agreed to reinter the human remains locally at Roselawn 110 cemetery. The grant also provides funds for a NAGPRA consultant to organize and manage the repatriation process. The reinterrment is expected to take place in June 2003. This Ordinance, which was unanimously adopted 6-0 (Councilmember Hamrick was absent), on April 15, 2003, appropriates unanticipated grant revenue in the Cultural Services and Facilities Fund for the implementation of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. ORDINANCE NO. 063, 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 RVIPLEMENT THE NATIVE AMERICAN GRAVES PROTECTION AND REPATRIATION ACT 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 determine the repatriation process of four human remains held in the Museum's collection; and WHEREAS, as a result of the Museum's efforts, the plains Indian tribes consulted, have agreed to a Shared Identity,selecting the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma to take the lead on repatriating the remains; and WHEREAS,on March 24,2003,the Museum was awarded aNAGPRA grant,in the amount of$15,000 from the Department of Interior, National Park Service; and WHEREAS, the 2003 NAGPRA grant will provide funding for a NAGPRA consultant to organize and manage the repatriation process; and support stipends and travel for tribal representatives and elders to come to Fort Collins for the repatriation and interment of the remains at the City's Roselawn Cemetery; 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,do 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$15,000 in federal Department of Interior, National Park Service NAGPRA grant funds in the Cultural Services and Facilities Fund, Museum NAGPRA grant project to be used to for implementing the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. NOW,THEREFORE,BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS that there is hereby appropriated for expenditure from unanticipated revenue in the Cultural Services and Facilities Fund, Museum NAGPRA grant project, the sum of FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS ($15,000),upon receipt,from the federal Department of Interior,National Park Service,to be used to implement the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. Introduced and considered favorably on first reading and ordered published this 15th day of April, A.D. 2003, and to be presented for final passage on the 6th day of y, A.D. 2003. Mayor ATTEST: City Clerk Passed and adopted on final reading this 6th day of May, A.D. 2003. Mayor ATTEST: City Clerk AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY ITEM NUMBER: 16 FORT COLLINS CITY COUNCIL DATE: April 15, 2003 STAFF: Jill Stilwell SUBJECT: First Reading of Ordinance No. 063, 2003, Appropriating Unanticipated Grant Revenue in the Cultural Services and Facilities Fund to be Used to Implement the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends adoption of e Ordinance on3Fir't Reading." FINANCIAL IMPACT: The Fort Collins Museum has been awarded a $15,000 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) repatriation grant from the federal National Park Service. This Ordinance appropriates the grant}n the CuJ rural Services and Facilities Fund. 41, It if EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In 1990, Congress established NAGPRA, Public Law 101-601. This law provides a process for determining the rights of lineal descendants of Indian tribes, Alaskan Natives, and Native Hawaiian organizations to certta n human r�ai ts,,Mne' y Qb' ts, sacred objects, or objects of cultural patrimony that are currently held in pub�cuseums. The Fort Collins Museum is working towards compliance -,with the,,law, if The Museum has completed initial physical inventory of its collections; sent out notification 0feirs to over b00 tribal communities, Alaskan villages, and Hawaiian Natives; and consulted with over 15 plains Indian tribes to determine the repatriation process of four human remains held in the Museum's collection. As a result of the process, the human remains will be repatriated to the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma and will be reinterred locally at Roselawn Cemetery. The 2003 NAGPRA Repatriation grant will support the stipends and travel for tribal representatives and elders to come to Fort Collins for the repatriation and reinterrment process. The Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes have agreed to reinter the human remains locally at Roselawn cemetery. The grant also provides funds for a NAGPRA consultant to organize and manage the repatriation process. The reinterrment is expected to take place in June 2003.