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AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY January 16, 2018
City Council
STAFF
Melissa Funk, Victim Services Supervisor
David Pearson, Police Lieutenant
Bronwyn Scurlock, Legal
SUBJECT
Second Reading of Ordinance No. 001, 2018, Appropriating Unanticipated Grant Revenue in the General Fund
for the Fort Collins Police Services Victim Services Unit.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This Ordinance, unanimously adopted on First Reading on January 2, 2018, appropriates grant funds in the
amount of $45,500 to fund the Victim Services Unit of Fort Collins Police Services for victim advocacy
services. The Fort Collins Police Services Victim Services Unit has been awarded a 12-month grant by the
Eighth Judicial District Victim Assistance and Law Enforcement (VALE) 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 a portion of the operational expenses needed to provide 24-hour, 7-days/week services to victims of
crime in the community.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on Second Reading.
ATTACHMENTS
1. First Reading Agenda Item Summary, January 2, 2018 (PDF)
2. Ordinance No. 001, 2018 (PDF)
Agenda Item 7
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AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY January 2, 2018
City Council
STAFF
Melissa Funk, Victim Services Supervisor
David Pearson, Police Lieutenant
Bronwyn Scurlock, Legal
SUBJECT
First Reading of Ordinance No. 001, 2018, Appropriating Unanticipated Grant Revenue in the General Fund for
the Fort Collins Police Services Victim Services Unit.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The purpose of this item is to fund the Victim Services Unit of Fort Collins Police Services for victim advocacy
services under the Colorado Victim Rights Amendment for victims of crime and their family members. The Fort
Collins Police Services Victim Services Unit has been awarded a 12-month grant in the amount of $45,500 for
the period from January 1, 2018 to December 31, 2018, by the Eighth Judicial District Victim Assistance and
Law Enforcement (VALE) 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 a portion of the operational expenses needed
to provide 24-hour, 7-days/week services to victims of crime in the community.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading.
BACKGROUND / DISCUSSION
The Victim Services Unit has received funding from the Victim Assistance and Law Enforcement (VALE) grant
since the inception of the program in 1996. Colorado State Statute mandates law enforcement agencies follow
the Victim Rights Amendment. Many of the stages in the mandated statutes are fulfilled by the Victim Services
Unit. 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.
CITY FINANCIAL IMPACTS
The City has received a grant in the amount of $45,500 from the Eighth Judicial District Victim Assistance and
Law Enforcement Board to help fund victim services activities. This grant requires no local cash match.
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ORDINANCE NO. 001, 2018
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED GRANT REVENUE IN
THE GENERAL FUND FOR THE FORT COLLINS POLICE
SERVICES VICTIM SERVICES UNIT
WHEREAS, Fort Collins Police Services has been awarded a grant in the amount of
$45,500 (the “Grant”) for the period from January 1, 2018, to December 31, 2018, by the Eighth
Judicial District Victim Assistance and Law Enforcement (“VALE”) Board to support the Fort
Collins Police Services Victim Services Unit (“Victim Services”); and
WHEREAS, Victim Services provides crisis intervention, resources and referral services
to victims of violent crime and 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, a part-time victim advocate, and to partially pay for
operational expenses needed to provide 24-hour a day, 7-day a week service to victims of crime in
the 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, appropriation of the Grant serves a public purpose by assisting crime victims
in the Fort Collins community; and
WHEREAS, City staff has determined that the appropriation of the Grant from the VALE
Board to support Victim Services will not cause the total amount appropriated in the Police
Services 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 as follows:
Section 1. That the City Council hereby makes and adopts the determinations and
findings contained in the recitals set forth above.
Section 2. That there is hereby appropriated from unanticipated grant revenue in the
General Fund the sum of FORTY-FIVE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($45,500)
for expenditure in the General Fund for the Fort Collins Police Services Victim Services Unit.
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Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 2nd day of
January, A.D. 2018, and to be presented for final passage on the 16th day of January, A.D. 2018.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading on the 16th day of January, A.D. 2018.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Clerk