HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 08/21/2012 - FIRST READING OF ORDINANCE NO. 074, 2012, APPROPRIDATE: August 21, 2012
STAFF: Cheryl Donaldson
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY
FORT COLLINS CITY COUNCIL 14
SUBJECT
First Reading of Ordinance No. 074, 2012, Appropriating Unanticipated Grant Revenue in the Cultural Services and
Facilities Fund for the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Program.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Fort Collins Museum of Discovery was awarded a grant in the amount of $57,522 from the National Park Service,
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) Program. This Ordinance will appropriate these
grant funds to complete the grant objectives.
BACKGROUND / DISCUSSION
In 2002, the Fort Collins Museum received its first NAGPRA grant for consultations to determine cultural patrimony
of funerary objects, objects of cultural significance, and human remains held in the Museum’s collection in order to
come into compliance with the National Park Service’s Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of
1990. Since that time, the Museum has completed several NAGPRA related projects, repatriating culturally significant
objects and thirteen of the fourteen individuals in the collection. This grant will enable the museum to consult with
regional Native American tribes to determine the cultural affiliation of the last individual and begin the process of
repatriation.
FINANCIAL / ECONOMIC IMPACTS
The $57,522 will be disbursed on a reimbursement basis over a two-year period. The Museum is requesting that
Council appropriate $57,522 into the Museum’s NAGPRA grant project for use during the grant cycle of September
2012 through August 2014.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading.
ORDINANCE NO. 074, 2012
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED GRANT REVENUE IN THE CULTURAL SERVICES
AND FACILITIES FUND FOR THE NATIVE AMERICAN GRAVES
PROTECTION AND REPATRIATION ACT PROGRAM
WHEREAS, in 1990, Congress established the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), providing a process to determine 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 received its first NAGPRA grant for consultations in
2002, has completed several NAGPRA related projects, has been working towards compliance with
NAGPRA, and has repatriated culturally significant objects for thirteen of the fourteen individuals
held in the Museum’s collection; and
WHEREAS, the Museum has recently been awarded a NAGPRA grant, in the amount of
$57,522 from the National Park Service, Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
Program; and
WHEREAS, this grant will enable the museum to consult with regional Native American
tribes to determine the cultural affiliation of the last individual and begin the process of repatriation;
and
WHEREAS, no local matching funds are required; and
WHEREAS, Article V, Section 9, of the City 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, City staff has determined that the appropriation of the revenue as described
herein will not cause the total amount appropriated in the Cultural Services and Facilities Fund to
exceed the current estimate of actual and anticipated revenues to be received in that fund during any
fiscal year.
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 FIFTY-SEVEN
THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED TWENTY-TWO DOLLARS ($57,522), to be used to implement
the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 21st day of
August, A.D. 2012, and to be presented for final passage on the 4th day of September, A.D. 2012.
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Mayor Pro Tem
ATTEST:
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City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading on the 4th day of September, A.D. 2012.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Clerk