HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 01/03/2012 - FIRST READING OF ORDINANCE NO. 001, 2012, APPROPRIDATE: January 3, 2012
STAFF: Mike Beckstead
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY
FORT COLLINS CITY COUNCIL 8
SUBJECT
First Reading of Ordinance No. 001, 2012, Appropriating General Fund Reserves for Additional City Contribution to
the Poudre Fire Authority Budget for the Year 2012 for Operations and Maintenance.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This Ordinance outlines the contribution from the City of Fort Collins to the Poudre Fire Authority (PFA) for the
Southwest Enclave Annexation in the amount of $158,009 to contribute funding for operating and maintenance of the
Poudre Fire Authority.
BACKGROUND / DISCUSSION
When the City of Fort Collins annexes property, it reduces the amount of revenue brought into the Poudre Valley Fire
Protection District based on the mill levy on such property. The calculated amount of revenue lost from the City's
Southwest Enclave Annexation is $158,009. When the 2012 City Budget was adopted, it did not include any additional
contribution from the City of Fort Collins to Poudre Fire Authority for the City's Southwest Enclave Annexation.
During a PFA Board of Directors meeting on December 14, 2010, it was conveyed that the City would contribute
money to PFA to compensate for the lost revenue to the District from the City's Southwest Enclave Annexation
(Attachment 1). This Ordinance appropriates the dollars the City committed to PFA in the amount of $158,009.
FINANCIAL / ECONOMIC IMPACTS
Adoption of the Ordinance will establish the City’s contribution to the Poudre Fire Authority for the Southwest
Annexation in 2012. As previously adopted in Resolution 2011-104, the Revenue Allocation Formula outlined the
City’s contribution to PFA for operations, maintenance and capital needs in the amount of $18,890,451, excluding the
$158,009 contribution for the Southwest Enclave Annexation. Adoption of this Ordinance brings the total 2012 City
contribution to PFA to $19,048,460.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading.
ATTACHMENTS
1. Poudre Fire Authority Board of Directors Meeting Notes, December 14, 2010.
ORDINANCE NO. 001, 2012
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING GENERAL FUND RESERVES FOR ADDITIONAL CITY
CONTRIBUTION TO THE POUDRE FIRE AUTHORITY BUDGET FOR
THE YEAR 2012 FOR OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE
WHEREAS, on December 22, 1981, the City entered into an Intergovernmental Agreement
(the “IGA”) with the Poudre Valley Fire Protection District creating the Poudre Fire Authority (the
“PFA”), which IGA was amended in 1987; and
WHEREAS, the PFA provides fire protection services to all properties within the City limits
and the City has a continuing commitment to provide funding to the PFA for its public safety
services; and
WHEREAS, City Council adopted Resolution 2011-104 to allocate $18,890,451 to the PFA
for operations, maintenance, and capital needs for the year 2012 based on the approved revenue
allocation formula (RAF); and
WHEREAS, the adopted Resolution did not include compensation in the amount of
$158,009 for lost revenue to the PFA from the City’s Southwest Enclave Annexation; and
WHEREAS, this Ordinance will appropriate $158,009 from General Fund reserves for the
PFA’s 2012 operations and maintenance budget; and
WHEREAS, Article V, Section 9 of the City 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, 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 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.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS, that there is hereby appropriated for expenditure from reserves in the General Fund the
sum of ONE HUNDRED FIFTY EIGHT THOUSAND AND NINE DOLLARS ($158,009) for
additional contribution to the 2012 Poudre Fire Authority Budget.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 3rd day of
January, A.D. 2012, and to be presented for final passage on the 17th day of January, A.D. 2012.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading on the 17th day of January, A.D. 2012.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Clerk