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AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY January 7, 2014
City Council
STAFF
Michelle Provaznik, Manager-Gardens on Spring Creek
SUBJECT
First Reading of Ordinance No. 001, 2014, Appropriating Unanticipated Grant Revenue in the General Fund
for the Gardens on Spring Creek.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The purpose of this item is to appropriate a total of $76,000 in grant funding received by the Gardens on
Spring Creek.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading.
BACKGROUND / DISCUSSION
The Gardens on Spring Creek is the community botanic garden of Fort Collins, whose mission is to improve
the lives of people and foster environmental stewardship through horticulture.
This Ordinance appropriates the two sets of grant monies to be spent by the Gardens on Spring Creek to
further the goals of both programs.
The Gardens received $65,000 from the Colorado Health Foundation for the Community Garden Outreach
Program. The funding will pay a portion of the Community Garden Outreach Coordinator position and for two
part-time hourly positions to assist with the program. Primary goals of the program are to increase the
number of community gardens, targeting low-income population in Fort Collins, launch the Family Garden
Program, and increase local produce donated to the Food Bank for Larimer County.
The Gardens also received $11,000 from the Colorado State University Specialty Crops program to conduct
research on the feasibility of a Farm Incubator Program that would train young farmers while increasing local
produce for the Food Bank for Larimer County.
FINANCIAL / ECONOMIC IMPACT
These funds will be spent in accordance with the grant agreements.
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ORDINANCE NO. 001, 2014
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED GRANT REVENUE IN THE
GENERAL FUND FOR THE GARDENS ON SPRING CREEK
WHEREAS, the City’s community botanical gardens program, Gardens on Spring Creek
(the “Gardens”), was awarded two grants in the aggregate amount of $76,000; and
WHEREAS, the Gardens received a grant from the Colorado Health Foundations in the
amount of $65,000, to pay for a portion of the Community Garden Outreach Coordinator
position and for two part-time hourly positions to assist with the Community Garden Outreach
Program; and
WHEREAS, the Gardens also received a grant in the amount of $11,000 from the
Colorado State University Specialty Crops program to conduct research on the feasibility of a
Farm Incubator Program; and
WHEREAS, neither grant requires City matching funds; 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 funds totaling
$76,000 as described herein, will not cause the total amount appropriated in the General Fund to
exceed the current estimate of actual and anticipated revenues to be received in that fund during
the fiscal year.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
FORT COLLINS as follows:
Section 1. That there is hereby appropriated from unanticipated grant revenue in the
General Fund the sum of SIXTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($65,000) for expenditure in
the General Fund for the Gardens on Spring Creek to help fund various positions within the
Community Garden Outreach Program.
Section 2. That there is hereby appropriated from unanticipated grant revenue in the
General Fund the sum of ELEVEN THOUSAND ($11,000) for expenditure in the General Fund
for the Gardens on Spring Creek to fund research of the feasibility of a Farm Incubator Program.
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Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 7th day of
January, A.D. 2014, and to be presented for final passage on the 21st day of January, A.D. 2014.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading on the 21st day of January, A.D. 2014.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Clerk