HomeMy WebLinkAbout017 - 03/01/2022 - APPROPRIATING PHILANTHROPIC REVENUE RECEIVED THROUGH CITY GIVE TO FUND A POLICE SERVICES CANINE (K9)ORDINANCE NO. 017, 2022
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING PHILANTHROPIC REVENUE RECEIVED THROUGH
CITY GIVE TO FUND A POLICE SERVICES CANINE (K9) UNIT
WHEREAS, the Howard G. Buffett Foundation ("Foundation") partners with law
enforcement agencies to identify and address key community public safety concerns, as public
safety is the primary focus of the Foundation's community -based grantmaking in the United States;
and
WHEREAS, the Foundation has awarded $10,000 to the City's City Gives program to
underwrite the purchase, related travel, and training of an additional K9, which will be partnered
with an officer/handier to become the sixth K9 team serving Fort Collins Police Services (FCPS);
and
WHEREAS, FCPS currently has five dogs in the K9 Unit, a specialized division consisting
of dog/handler teams, that respond to violent calls, building searches related to alarms or reports
of forced entry, fleeing subjects, searches for missing, lost, or endangered children or persons, and
narcotic calls; and
WHEREAS, a focus of a K9 Unit is to increase the safety of officers involved on calls and
reduce the number of officer hours spent on calls, which reduction is estimated to save between
800 and 1,000 officer hours per year; and
WHEREAS, this appropriation benefits public health, safety and welfare of the citizens of
Fort Collins and serves a public purpose because FCPS K9 units increase the safety of FCPS
officers involved on calls and reduce the number of officer hours spent in response to violent calls,
building searches related to alarms or reports of forced entry, fleeing subjects, searches for missing,
lost, or endangered children or persons, and narcotic calls; and
WHEREAS, Article V, Section 9 of the City Charter permits the City Council, upon the
recommendation of the City Manager, to make supplemental appropriations 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, the Interim 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 and all other funds to be received in this Fund
during this 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 philanthropic revenue from the prior
year reserve in the General Fund the sum of TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS ($10,000) for
expenditure in the General Fund for the Police Services K9 Unit.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 15th day of
February, A.D. 2022, and to be presente�nal passage on the 1 st day of March, A.D. 2022.
ATTEST:
SIX
City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading on the 1st day of March, A.D. 2022.
ATTEST:
City Clerk
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