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STAFF: Melissa Funk FORT COLLINSCOUNCILAA
First Reading of Ordinance No. 021, 2011, Appropriating Unanticipated Grant Revenue in the General Fund for the
Police Services Victim Services Team.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Fort Collins Police Services Victim Services Team has been awarded a 12-month grant in the amount of$40,000
for the period from January 1, 2011 to December 31, 2011, by the Eighth Judicial District Victims Assistance and Law
Enforcement(V.A.L.E.) Board to help fund services provided by this team. These funds will be used for part of the
salary for the victim advocate who provides crisis intervention services during weekday hours and is housed in the
Victim Services office. These funds will also pay for some of the operational expenses needed to provide 24-hour a
day, 7-day a week services to victims of crime in Fort Collins.
BACKGROUND / DISCUSSION
The Victim Services Team has received funding from the V.A.L.E. grant since the inception of the program in 1996.
Services have been provided to thousands of victims and their family members who have become victims of violent
crime in the community. Council has approved appropriations of the grant revenue every year. Services to the
community would be drastically cut without this grant award.
FINANCIAL/ ECONOMIC IMPACTS
The City has received a grant in the amount of$40,000,a$6,000 increase from 2010,from the Eighth Judicial District
Victim Assistance and Law Enforcement(V.A.L.E.) Board to help fund victim services activities. This grant requires
no cash match.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading.
ORDINANCE NO. 021, 2011
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED GRANT REVENUE OF $40,000 IN THE GENERAL
FUND FOR THE FORT COLLINS POLICE SERVICES VICTIM SERVICES TEAM
WHEREAS,the City of Fort Collins Police Services has been awarded a grant in the amount
of$40,000 (the "Grant") for the period from January 1, 2011 to December 31, 2011 by the Eighth
Judicial District Victims and Law Enforcement("VALE")Board to support the Fort Collins Police
Services Victim Services Team (the "Victim Services Team"); and
WHEREAS, the Victim Services Team provides crisis intervention, resources and referral
services to victims of violent crime as well as other traumatic situations; and
WHEREAS, the Grant will be used to fund a part of the salary for the victim advocate who
provides crisis intervention services and to partially pay for operational expenses needed to provide
24-hour a day, 7-day a week services to victims of crime in our community; 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 Grant from the VALE
Board to support the Victim Services Team will not cause the total amount appropriated in the
relevant funds 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 from unanticipated grant revenue in the General Fund
the sum of FORTY THOUSAND DOLLARS($40,000)for expenditure in the General Fund for the
Fort Collins Police Services Victim Services Team.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 1 st day of
March, A.D. 2011, and to be presented for final passage on the 15th day of March, A.D. 2011.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading on the 15th day of March, A.D. 2011.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk