HomeMy WebLinkAbout063 - 06/07/2022 - MAKING SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS FROM A PORTION OF THE CITY'S AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT (ARPA) FUNDORDINANCE NO.0b3, 2022
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
MAKING SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS FROM A PORTION OF THE CITY'S
AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT (ARPA) FUNDING FOR LOCAL FISCAL RECOVERY
RELATED TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
WHEREAS, on March 11, 2021, President Joseph R. Biden signed the American Rescue
Plan Act into law ("ARPA"), which established the Coronavirus Local Fiscal Recovery Fund
("CLFRF") intended to provide support to local governments in responding to the impacts of the
Novel Coronavirus 2019 ("COVID-19") on their communities, residents, and businesses; and
WHEREAS, the U.S. Treasury Department has provided regulatory guidance on how
ARPA funds may be used, which includes: supporting public health expenditures; addressing
negative economic impacts; replacing lost public sector revenue; providing premium pay for
essential workers; and investing in water, sewer and broadband infrastructure; and
WHEREAS, the City's allocation of funds from the CLFRF totals $28,118,971, of which
the City Council has previously appropriated approximately $8.2 million; and
WHEREAS, City staff has identified some current needs consistent with U.S. Treasury
Department guidance to include financial support and expenditures for: public health; to address
negative economic impacts; to invest in broadband infrastructure; and to replace lost public sector
revenue for the provision of government services; and
WHEREAS, City staff presented to the City Council Finance Committee on May 5, 2022
proposed new appropriations totaling $4,152,217 from the City's CLFRF funds to address the
identified needs; and
WHEREAS, this appropriation benefits public health, safety and welfare of the citizens of
Fort Collins and serves the public purpose of responding to the immediate and short-term
community health, social wellbeing, and economic needs arising from the negative impacts of the
COVID-19 pandemic; 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 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; and
WHEREAS, Article V, Section 11 of the City Charter authorizes the City Council to
designate in the ordinance when appropriating funds for a federal, state or private grant or
donation, that such appropriation shall not lapse at the end of the fiscal year in which the
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appropriation is made, but continue until the earlier of the expiration of the federal, state or private
grant or donation or the City's expenditure of all funds received from such grant or donation; and
WHEREAS, the City Council wishes to designate the appropriation herein from ARPA as
an appropriation that shall not expire until the earlier of the expiration of the grant or the City's
expenditure of all funds received from such grant.
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 new grant revenue in the General
Fund the sum of FOUR MILLION ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-TWO THOUSAND TWO
HUNDRED SEVENTEEN DOLLARS ($4,152,217) to be expended in the General Fund for a
crisis communication plan, Heartside Hill, Indigenous Community Relations Specialist, Rapid
Rehousing, Neighborhood Resilience projects, Recovery Administration funding, Capital Project
Business Liaison, Human Resources staff support, COVID-19 related hybrid meeting spaces and
Community WiFi and Cyber Risk Management.
Section 3. That the appropriation herein from the Federal American Recovery Plan Act
(ARPA) is hereby designated, as authorized in Article V, Section 1 I of the City Charter, as an
appropriation that shall not lapse at the end of this fiscal year but continue until the earlier of the
expiration of the grant or the City's expenditure of all funds received from such grant.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 17th day of
May, A.D. 2022, and to be presented for final passage on the 7th day of June, A.D. 2022.
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Passed and adopted on final reading on the 7th day of June, A.D. 2022.
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