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AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY May 20, 2014
City Council
STAFF
Beverly Gast, Financial Coordinator
Kelly DiMartino, Assistant City Manager
SUBJECT
First Reading of Ordinance No. 076, 2014 Appropriating Prior Year Reserves and Unanticipated Revenue in
the General Fund for Cultural Development and Programming Activities, Tourism Programming, and the Fort
Collins Convention and Visitors Bureau.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The purpose of this item is to appropriate $195,981, of which $83,619 is for 2014 Cultural Development and
Programming Activities (Fort Fund), $8,977 is for 2014 Tourism Programming (Fort Fund), and $103,385 is for
2014 Fort Collins Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) activities from Unanticipated Revenue (Lodging Tax)
and Prior Year Reserves (unspent appropriations) in the General Fund Lodging Tax Reserves.
Lodging Taxes for 2013 were estimated at $955,000 with actual Lodging Tax revenues collected equaled
$1,102,693 ($147,693 over estimate).
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading.
BACKGROUND / DISCUSSION
Section 25-44 of the City Code requires that 75% of the total lodging tax receipts be used for the promotion of
convention and visitor activities and 25% of receipts be used for cultural development and programming
activities. Actual revenue collected is appropriated based on this allocation formula and any excess revenue
and budget savings are reserved for these activities in the General Fund balance.
FINANCIAL / ECONOMIC IMPACTS
Lodging Tax 75% 25%
Promote Convention Promote Cultural Development
& Visitor Activities & Programming
Convention &
Visitors
Bureau 70%
Fort Fund
(Tourism
Programming)
5%
Fort Fund
(Cultural Development &
Programming)
25%
Total
Unanticipated Lodging Tax 103,385 7,385 36,923 147,693
Unspent Appropriations 0 1,592 46,696 48,288
Total 103,385 8,977 83,619 195,981
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ORDINANCE NO. 076, 2014
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING PRIOR YEAR RESERVES AND UNANTICIPATED
REVENUE IN THE GENERAL FUND FOR CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
AND PROGRAMMING ACTIVITIES, TOURISM PROGRAMMING, AND THE FORT
COLLINS CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU
WHEREAS, Section 25-244 of the Code of the City of Fort Collins requires that lodging
tax revenue is to be allocated as follows: 75% for the promotion of convention and visitor
activities and 25% for cultural development and programming activities; and
WHEREAS, Lodging Taxes were estimated at $955,000 for 2013, all of which estimate
was appropriated and all but $48,288, of which was spent in 2013; and
WHEREAS, at the end of 2013, a total of $1,102,693 in Lodging Tax revenues had been
collected and the unspent portions lapsed into the General Fund Reserves for Lodging Tax
programs and activities; and
WHEREAS, unanticipated Lodging Tax revenue in the amount of $147,693 remains in
the General Fund and is to be appropriated for each of the Lodging Tax programs and activities
as follows; and
• Cultural Development and Programming $ 36,923
• Tourism Programming $ 7,385
• Fort Collins Convention and Visitors Bureau $ 103,385
WHEREAS, unexpended 2013 appropriations of Lodging Tax revenue in the amount of
$48,288 have lapsed and were returned to the General Fund, and are to be appropriated for
Lodging Tax programs and activities based on the use specified when they were first
appropriated, as follows:
• Cultural Development and Programming $ 46,696
• Tourism Programming $ 1,592
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 appropriation by ordinance at any time during the fiscal year, provided that the
total amount of such supplemental appropriations, in combination with all previous
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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 General Fund to exceed the current
estimate of actual and anticipated revenues to be received in that fund during any fiscal year; and
WHEREAS, the City wishes to appropriate all funds allocated for Cultural Development
and Programming, Tourism Programming, and the Fort Collins Convention and Visitors Bureau.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
FORT COLLINS as follows:
Section 1. That there is hereby appropriated for expenditure from prior year reserves
in the General Fund the total sum of EIGHTY THREE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED
NINETEEN DOLLARS ($83,619) for Cultural Development and Programming activities.
Section 2. That there is hereby appropriated for expenditure from prior year reserves
in the General Fund the total sum of EIGHT THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED SEVENTY
SEVEN DOLLARS ($8,977) for the Tourism Programming.
Section 3. That there is hereby appropriated for expenditure from prior year reserves
in the General Fund the total sum of ONE HUNDRED THREE THOUSAND THREE
HUNDRED EIGHTY FIVE DOLLARS ($103,385) for the Fort Collins Conventions and
Visitors Bureau.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 20th day of
May, A.D. 2014, and to be presented for final passage on the 3rd day of June, A.D. 2014.
__________________________________
Mayor
ATTEST:
_______________________________
City Clerk
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Passed and adopted on final reading on the 3rd day of June, A.D. 2014.
__________________________________
Mayor
ATTEST:
_______________________________
City Clerk