HomeMy WebLinkAbout071 - 07/05/2022 - APPROPRIATING PHILANTHROPIC REVENUE RECEIVED THROUGH CITY GIVE FOR THE ART IN PUBLIC PLACES PROGRAM,ORDINANCE NO.071, 2022
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING PHILANTHROPIC REVENUE RECEIVED THROUGH CITY GIVE FOR
THE ART IN PUBLIC PLACES PROGRAM,
PIANOS ABOUT TOWN PROJECT
WHEREAS, the Pianos About Town project was started by the City's Art in Public Places
(APP) program in 2010 and involved local artists painting or decorating pianos in Old Town
Square, with the finished pianos being rotated throughout Fort Collins for the public to enjoy; and
WHEREAS, Pianos About Town is now a collaboration between APP, the Downtown
Develop Authority's Art in Action program, and Bohemian Foundation; and
WHEREAS, Bohemian Foundation has donated $39,991 to support Pianos About Town
in 2022, and this Ordinance would appropriate the donated funds for that purpose; and
WHEREAS, this appropriation benefits public health, safety and welfare of the citizens of
Fort Collins and serves the public purpose of contributing to the vibrancy of Fort Collins by making
art and music fun and accessible for all; 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
Cultural Services and Facilities Fund and will not cause the total amount appropriated in the
Cultural Services and Facilities 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 private grant or donation, that such
appropriation shall not lapse at the end of the fiscal year in which the 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 for the Pianos
About Town grant as an appropriation that shall not lapse the earlier of the expiration of the grant
until the earlier of the expiration of the private grant or donation or the City's expenditure of all
funds received from such grant or donation.
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 philanthropic revenue in the
Cultural Services and Facilities Fund the sum of THIRTY-NINE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED
NINTY-ONE DOLLARS ($39,991) to be expended in the Cultural Services and Facilities Fund
for the Art in Public Places program.
Section 3. That the appropriation herein for the Pianos About Town grant is hereby
designated, as authorized in Article V, Section I 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 or donation.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading and ordered published this 21st
day of June, A.D. 2022, and to be presented for final passage on the 5th day of July, A.D. 2022.
ATTEST:
SEAL
City Clerk,,
Passed and adopted on final
ATTEST:
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