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Home My WebLink AboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 02/18/2020 - SECOND READING OF ORDINANCE NO. 036, 2020, APPROPRAgenda Item 12 Item # 12 Page 1 AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY February 18, 2020 City Council STAFF Zoe Shark, Public Engagement Manager Ingrid Decker, Legal SUBJECT Second Reading of Ordinance No. 036, 2020, Appropriating Unanticipated Grant Revenue and Authorizing Transfers in the Natural Areas Fund for the Club Outdoors Program. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This Ordinance, unanimously adopted on First Reading on February 4, 2020, appropriates a $70,660 grant awarded by the D.R. & V. Pulliam Charitable Trust into the Natural Areas Department’s 2020 budget. This grant was awarded to support Club Outdoors, an after-school and summer program that connects Boys & Girls Club members to natural areas. Most of the grant ($58,400) will be the salary for two summer internships and a new contractual staff person to run Club Outdoors for one year. The rest of the funds will cover expenses such as transportation, food, and gear for participants. The grant requires the Natural Areas Department to cover the benefits costs of the positions, $16,161, a funding match of approximately 22%. The match will come from previously appropriated Natural Areas Department funds. STAFF RECOMMENDATION Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on Second Reading. ATTACHMENTS 1. First Reading Agenda Item Summary, February 4, 2020 (w/o attachments) (PDF) 2. Ordinance No. 036, 2020 (PDF) Agenda Item 21 Item # 21 Page 1 AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY February 4, 2020 City Council STAFF Zoe Shark, Public Engagement Manager Ingrid Decker, Legal SUBJECT First Reading of Ordinance No. 036, 2020, Appropriating Unanticipated Grant Revenue and Authorizing Transfers in the Natural Areas Fund for the Club Outdoors Program. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The purpose of this item is to appropriate a $70,660 grant awarded by the D.R. & V. Pulliam Charitable Trust into the Natural Areas Department’s 2020 budget. This grant was awarded to support Club Outdoors, an after- school and summer program that connects Boys & Girls Club members to natural areas. Most of the grant ($58,400) will be the salary for two summer internships and a new contractual staff person to run Club Outdoors for one year. The rest of the funds will cover expenses such as transportation, food, and gear for participants. The grant requires the Natural Areas Department to cover the benefits costs of the positions, $16,161, a funding match of approximately 22%. The match will come from previously appropriated Natural Areas Department funds. STAFF RECOMMENDATION Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading. BACKGROUND / DISCUSSION City of Fort Collins Natural Areas Department makes it a priority to reach audiences that traditionally have not had access to outdoor programming, such as Boys & Girls Club members. This is because the privilege of experiencing Colorado’s special outdoor places is, unfortunately, not available to all children in northern Colorado. This means that young people may not have access to nature’s benefits such as physical and mental health, increased focus and attention, a sense of connectedness to nature and community, and more. Without kids that care about getting outside and who see the value of nature, the future conservation of natural areas is at serious risk. This commitment to underserved youth was the inspiration for Club Outdoors, a very successful partnership between the Natural Areas Department and two Boys & Girls Club locations in 2018-2019. With this grant, Club Outdoors will be expanded to provide weekly activities, increase its reach to include the Loveland Boys & Girls Club location, and to add more field trips to Bobcat Ridge Natural Area. Club Outdoors, and its expansion funded by this grant, is an example of City Council’s priority to use an equity lens (Neighborhood Livability and Social Health) and improve equitable participation through expanded programming (Culture and Recreation). This grant supports the Natural Areas Department’s strategic goals to connect people to nature and expand equity and inclusion efforts. The grant is for one year, and continuing funds are anticipated to be sought from Pulliam Charitable Trust. ATTACHMENT 1 Agenda Item 21 Item # 21 Page 2 CITY FINANCIAL IMPACTS City resources would increase by $70,660. Required matching funds (amount $16,161) have already been appropriated in the 2020 Natural Areas Fund. BOARD / COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION On January 8, 2020, the Land Conservation and Stewardship Board unanimously recommended City Council appropriate the grant funds of $70,660 into the Natural Areas 2020 budget. ATTACHMENTS 1. Land Conservation and Stewardship Board Minutes, January 8, 2020 (draft) (PDF) 2. Powerpoint presentation (PDF) -1- ORDINANCE NO. 036, 2020 OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED GRANT REVENUE AND AUTHORIZING TRANSFERS IN THE NATURAL AREAS FUND FOR THE CLUB OUTDOORS PROGRAM WHEREAS, in 2018, in collaboration with Boys & Girls Club, the City’s Natural Areas Department created the Club Outdoors Program; and WHEREAS, Club Outdoors is intended to reach underserved youth and provide them with experiences in the outdoors that will connect them to nature and build their sense of community; and WHEREAS, the Natural Areas Department has been awarded a grant of $70,660 by the D.R. and V. Pulliam Charitable Trust to support Club Outdoors in 2020 (the “Grant”), and City staff is requesting that the Council appropriate the Grant proceeds into the Natural Areas Fund to be expended for this purpose; and WHEREAS, the majority of the Grant proceeds would be used for salaries for a new contractual staff person to run Club Outdoors for one year, and two summer interns; and WHEREAS, this appropriation benefits public health, safety and welfare of the citizens of Fort Collins and serves the public purposes of expanding access to and equitable participation in City programs and facilities, and increasing interest in the conservation of natural areas; and WHEREAS, the Grant requires the City to cover the costs of benefits for the new positions at a cost of approximately $16,161; and WHEREAS, the funds to cover this match are appropriated and available in the Natural Areas Department operating budget; 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 this appropriation is available and previously unappropriated from the Natural Areas Fund and will not cause the total amount appropriated in the Natural Areas Fund to exceed the current estimate of actual and anticipated revenues to be received in that fund during any 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 -2- 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 Natural Areas Fund the sum of SEVENTY THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED SIXTY DOLLARS ($70,660) for expenditure in the Natural Areas Fund for the Club Outdoors Program. Section 3. That the unexpended appropriated amount of SIXTEEN THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED SIXTY-ONE DOLLARS ($16,161) is authorized for transfer from the Natural Areas Department operating budget in the Natural Areas Fund to the Club Outdoors Program and appropriated therein. Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 4th day of February, A.D. 2020, and to be presented for final passage on the 18th day of February, A.D. 2020. __________________________________ Mayor ATTEST: _______________________________ City Clerk Passed and adopted on final reading on the 18th day of February, A.D. 2020. __________________________________ Mayor ATTEST: _______________________________ City Clerk