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AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY July 21, 2020
City Council
STAFF
Nina Bodenhamer, City Give Director
Tom DeMint, PFA Fire Chief
Ingrid Decker, Legal
SUBJECT
First Reading of Ordinance No. 087, 2020, Appropriating Unanticipated Philanthropic Revenue Received by
City Give for the Poudre Fire Authority and City Joint Project to Construct the 9/11 Memorial Park.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The purpose of this item is to appropriate $75,200 in philanthropic revenue in the General Fund for transfer to
Park Planning & Development. The funds represent cumulative giving from multiple donors and the gifts are
designated by the donors for the stated support of the 9/11 Memorial Park.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading.
BACKGROUND / DISCUSSION
The 9/11 Memorial Park will be an open-air, community park to honor the events of September 11, 2001.
Symbolism and history will serve as a backdrop for a World Trade Center artifact to create a living memorial
and to provide visitors ample opportunity for reflection.
A collaboration between Poudre Fire Authority and the City, the 9/11 Memorial will be located adjacent to
PFA’s Station 3 at Spring Creek Park in Midtown Fort Collins. The community park is a garden destination and
will have three entrances: one from the north parking lot, one from the Spring Creek Trail, and one from the
sidewalk south of the fire station.
As the centerpiece of the park, a 5-foot-long, 3,059-pound steel I-beam from the World Trade Center site will
rest above three pools of cascading water surrounded with angular seating blocks, reminiscent of “the pile”
from which the steel was recovered. Displays will educate visitors on the events of 9/11, challenges faced by
first responders and the story of how the beam travelled from New York to Fort Collins. The 9/11 Memorial
Park will be the only site of a World Trade Center artifact in Northern Colorado.
CITY FINANCIAL IMPACTS
This Ordinance will appropriate $75,200 of unanticipated philanthropic revenue which will be used to fully
develop construction plans, determine a final capital budget, and a capital campaign for the 9/11 Memorial
Park which will be fully funded by charitable support.
The revenue is being appropriated into the General Fund for transfer to 9/11 Memorial Park, Park Planning &
Development. The funds have been received and accepted per City Give Administrative and Financial Policy.
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ORDINANCE NO. 087, 2020
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED PHILANTHROPIC REVENUE RECEIVED BY
CITY GIVE FOR THE POUDRE FIRE AUTHORITY AND CITY JOINT PROJECT TO
CONSTRUCT THE 9/11 MEMORIAL PARK
WHEREAS, the City and Poudre Fire Authority (“PFA”) are collaborating to develop the
9/11 Memorial Park next to PFA’s Station 3 at Spring Creek Park; and
WHEREAS, the proposed park would feature a steel I-beam from the World Trade
Center site, three pools of cascading water, angular seating blocks and displays to educate
visitors about the events of September 11, 2001, the challenges faced by first responders, and the
story of how the beam got from New York to Fort Collins; and
WHEREAS, multiple donors have provided a total of $75,200 to support the 9/11
Memorial Park, and this Ordinance would appropriate those funds for use by Park Planning and
Development to fully develop construction plans and determine a final capital budget for the
project, and to support a capital campaign for the Park, which will be funded entirely by
charitable support; and
WHEREAS, this appropriation benefits public health, safety and welfare of the residents
of Fort Collins and serves the public purpose of developing a public memorial park for reflection
and education of residents and visitors; 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, the City Manager has recommended the appropriation described herein and
determined that these appropriations are 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 these funds during the 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; and
WHEREAS, the City Manager has recommended the transfer described herein and
determined that the purpose for which the transferred funds are to be expended remains
unchanged.
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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 philanthropic
revenue in the General Fund the sum of SEVENTY-FIVE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED
DOLLARS ($75,200) for transfer to the Capital Projects Fund and appropriated therein for the
9/11 Memorial Park Project.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 21st day of
July, A.D. 2020, and to be presented for final passage on the 4th day of August, A.D. 2020.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading on the 4th day of August, A.D. 2020.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Clerk