HomeMy WebLinkAbout016 - 03/01/2022 - APPROPRIATING PHILANTHROPIC REVENUE RECEIVED THROUGH CITY GIVE FOR THE PARKS DEPARTMENT FOR THE LARIORDINANCE NO. 016, 2022
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING PHILANTHROPIC REVENUE RECEIVED THROUGH
CITY GIVE FOR THE PARKS DEPARTMENT FOR THE
LARIMER COUNTY VETERANS MEMORIAL
WHEREAS, the Larimer County Veterans Memorial ("Memorial") is located in Edora
Park and honors Larimer County veterans who were killed in action in service to the United States;
and
WHEREAS, the Veterans of Foreign Wars Rocky Mountain Post 1781 ("VFW") has
generously donated $25,367 for the upkeep and maintenance of the Memorial; and
WHEREAS, the donation was made in conjunction with a donor agreement between the
City and the VFW for the long-term upkeep of the Memorial (the "Agreement"), which includes
a process to ensure the timely and accurate addition of future names; and
WHEREAS, the Agreement, signed in July 2021, does not obligate the City to spend funds
to maintain the Memorial beyond the amount of the donation, and recognizes that the Memorial is
the City's property and that the City may repair, replace, move, or remove the Memorial at any
time in the City's discretion; and
WHEREAS, this appropriation benefits public health, safety and welfare of the citizens of
Fort Collins and serves the public purpose of maintaining a memorial to Larimer County veterans
who were killed in military service; and
WHEREAS, Article V, Section 9 of the City Charter permits the City Council, upon
recommendation of the City Manager, to make a supplemental appropriation by ordinance at any
time during the fiscal year, provided that the total amount of such supplemental appropriation, in
combination with all previous appropriations for that fiscal year, do not exceed the current estimate
of actual and anticipated revenues and all other funds to be received during the fiscal year; and
WHEREAS, the Interim 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 and all other funds to be received in that
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 in the General
Fund the sum of TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED SIXTY-SEVEN DOLLARS
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($25,367) for expenditure in the General Fund for the Parks Department for the Larimer County
Veterans Memorial.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 15th day of
February, A.D. 2022, and to be presented for final passage on the 1 st day of March, A.D. 2022.
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Passed and adopted on final reading on the 1 st day of March, A.D. 2022.
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