HomeMy WebLinkAbout067 - 06/04/2024 - MAKING A SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION FROM THE COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION COLORADO HIGHWAYORDINANCE NO.067,2024
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
MAKING A SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION FROM THE
COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION COLORADO
HIGHWAY SAFETY OFFICE CLICK IT OR TICKET GRANT FOR THE
FORT COLLINS POLICE SERVICES TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT UNIT
A.On March 2,2024,Fort Collins Police Services (FCPS),Traffic Enforcement
Unit was awarded a federal grant through the Colorado Department of Transportation
(HSO)Click It or Ticket program,which is a grant program that provides high visibility
enforcement focusing on enforcement of driver and passenger restraint system use.
B.The federal grant runs on three enforcement cycles occurring in April,May,
and July of 2024.Each enforcement cycle runs for a two-week period where officers will
be deployed to conduct traffic enforcement and specifically enforcement of driver and
passenger safety belt restraint use.
C.This item appropriates $16,529 in unanticipated funds received through this
grant for FCPS Traffic Enforcement Unit and other agency personnel to deploy at the
personnel salary overtime rate over three two-week enforcement waves of Click It or
Ticket.
D.This grant from HSO is a reimbursement type grant,meaning General Fund
expenses will be reimbursed up to $16,529.
E.This appropriation benefits public health,safety and welfare of the citizens
of Fort Collins and serves a public purpose of saving lives through education and
enforcement measures.
F.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.
G.The 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.
H.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 the City’s expenditure of all funds received from such grant.
I.The City Council wishes to designate the appropriation herein for the
Colorado Department of Transportation,Colorado Highway Safety Office Click It or Ticket
Grant as an appropriation that shall not lapse until the earlier of the expiration of the grant
or the City’s expenditure of all funds received from such grant.
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 revenue or other funds in the
General Fund the sum of SIXTEEN THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED TWENTY-NINE
DOLLARS ($16,529)to be expended in the General Fund for the Fort Collins Police
Services Traffic Enforcement Unit.
Section 2.The appropriation herein for the Colorado Department of
Transportation,Colorado Highway Safety Office Click It or Ticket Grant 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 the City’s expenditure of all funds received from such grant.
Introduced,considered favorably on first reading on May 21,2024,and approved
on second reading for final passage on June 4,2024.
Effective Date:June 14,2024
Approving Attorney:Dawn Downs
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