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AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY June 2, 2020
City Council
STAFF
Jim Byrne, Office of Emergency Management
Ingrid Decker, Legal
SUBJECT
First Reading of Ordinance No. 077, 2020, Appropriating Unanticipated Grant Revenue and Authorizing
Transfers in the General Fund for the Emergency Management Performance Grant.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This item meets the following COVID-19 emergency priority for being on the Council agenda:
• Priority 2 – Emergency-related items that are not urgent but require Council approval.
The purpose of this item is to appropriate unanticipated grant revenue in the General Fund for the Emergency
Management Performance Grant - Special Projects. This appropriation includes $10,000 of grant revenue
provided by the Colorado Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (DHSEM) to support
emergency management programs. The grant directly supported purchasing an emergency management
credentialing system (Salamander) and required a local match of $10,951. Matching funds were appropriated
and unexpended in the 2020 Emergency Preparedness and Security operating budget and will be transferred
to the Emergency Management Performance Grant - Special Projects program.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading.
BACKGROUND / DISCUSSION
In September 2019, the State of Colorado announced the availability of funds for special projects under the
Emergency Management Performance Grant program with a priority being for credentialing equipment that
allows for statewide uniformity. The City applied for the grant to obtain credentialing software and equipment
and was awarded $10,000, for which a match of $10,951 is required.
Uniformity across the state in a time of a disaster is essential to the operation of the Office of Emergency
Preparedness and Security. This equipment and software will allow staff to respond to disasters inside the
state which affect our neighbors as well as allowing others from around the state to assist the City during a
disaster. It will provide accountability and tracking mechanisms which are currently not available inside the
City and will assist in the further advancement of Emergency Preparedness and Security.
CITY FINANCIAL IMPACTS
City resources would increase by $10,000. Required matching funds of $10,951 were already appropriated in
the 2020 General Fund.
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ORDINANCE NO. 077, 2020
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED GRANT REVENUE
AND AUTHORIZING TRANSFERS IN THE GENERAL FUND
FOR THE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERFORMANCE GRANT
WHEREAS, the City has applied for and been awarded $10,000 in grant funding from
the State of Colorado Emergency Management Performance Grant program (the “Grant”); and
WHEREAS, the City will use the Grant proceeds to buy credentialing software and
equipment that will provide uniformity between the City and other agencies around the state, and
provide better accountability and tracking mechanisms, in responding to a disaster; and
WHEREAS, the Grant requires the City to provide $10,951 in matching funds; and
WHEREAS, this appropriation benefits public health, safety and welfare of the citizens
of Fort Collins and serves the public purpose of supporting and enhancing the City’s Office of
Emergency Preparedness and Security; and
WHEREAS, Article V, Section 9 of the City Charter permits the City Council, upon
recommendation of the City Manager, 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, the City Manager has recommended the appropriation described herein and
determined that this appropriation is available and previously unappropriated from the General
Fund and 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 this fiscal year;
and
WHEREAS, Article V, Section 10, of the City Charter authorizes the City Council to
transfer by ordinance any unexpended and unencumbered appropriated amount or portion thereof
from one fund or capital project account to another fund or capital project account, provided that
the purpose for which the transferred funds are to be expended remains unchanged.
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 TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS ($10,000) for expenditure in the
General Fund for the Emergency Management Performance Grant.
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Section 3. That the unexpended appropriated amount of TEN THOUSAND NINE
HUNDRED FIFTY-ONE DOLLARS ($10,951) is authorized for transfer from the Emergency
Preparedness & Security operating budget in the General Fund to the Emergency Management
Performance Grant and appropriated therein.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 2nd day of
June, A.D. 2020, and to be presented for final passage on the 16th day of June, A.D. 2020.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading on the 16th day of June, A.D. 2020.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Clerk