HomeMy WebLinkAbout062 - 05/21/2024 - APPROPRIATING PHILANTHROPIC REVENUE RECEIVED THROUGH CITY GIVE FOR THE ART IN PUBLIC PLACES PROGRAM,ORDINANCE NO.062,2024
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
A.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.
B.Pianos About Town is now a collaboration between APP,the Downtown
Development Authority’s Art in Action Program,and Bohemian Foundation.
C.Bohemian Found has donated $47,115 to support Pianos About Town in
2024,and this Ordinance would appropriate the donated funds for that purpose.
D.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.
E.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 from such revenues and funds for expenditure as may
be available from reserves accumulated in prior years,notwithstanding that such reserves
were not previously appropriated.
F.The 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.
G.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 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.
H.The City Council wishes to designate the appropriation herein for Pianos
About Town donation as an appropriation that shall not lapse until the earlier of the
expiration of the grant or donation or the City’s expenditure of all funds received from
such grant or donation.
In light of the foregoing recitals,which the Council hereby makes and adopts as
determinations and findings,BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
FORT COLLINS as follows:
Section 1.There is hereby appropriated from New Philanthropic Revenue in the
Cultural Services and Facilities Fund the sum of FORTY-SEVEN THOUSAND ONE
HUNDRED FIFTEEN DOLLARS ($47,115)to be expended in the Cultural Services and
Facilities Fund for Pianos About Town.
Section 2.The appropriation herein for Pianos About Town is hereby
designated,as authorized in Article V,Section 11 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 donation or the City’s expenditure of all funds received from
such grant or donation.
Introduced,considered favorably on first reading on May 7,2024,and approved
on second reading for final passage on May 21,2024.
Effective Date:May
Approving Attorney:
31,2024
Ted Hewitt
AHEST:
Iayor
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Interim City lerk