HomeMy WebLinkAbout069 - 06/04/2024 - MAKING A SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION FROM THE COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF EARLY CHILDHOOD IN SUPPORT OF LIORDINANCE NO.069,2024
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
MAKING A SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION FROM THE
COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF EARLY CHILDHOOD IN
SUPPORT OF LICENSED CITY CHILDCARE PROGRAMS
A.The City was awarded grants from the Colorado Department of Early
Childhood (CDEC)to provide enhancements to three City licensed childcare programs.
B.The grant funds will support operations of the Camp FunQuest program at
both Northside Aztlan Community Center and Foothills Activity Center and the Funtime
Preschool Program at Northside Aztlan Community Center.
C.The CDEC awarded each program $7,023 for a total grant award of $21,069
which Recreation will administer.
D.This appropriation benefits the public health and welfare of the citizens of
Fort Collins and serves the public purpose and strategic objective of providing licensed
City childcare programs.
E.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.
F.The City Manager has recommended the appropriation described herein
and determined that this appropriation is available and previously unappropriated from
the Recreation Fund and will not cause the total amount appropriated in the Recreation
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 the City’s expenditure of all funds received from such grant.
H.The City Council wishes to designate the appropriation herein for the
Colorado Department of Early Childhood Stabilization 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:
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Section 1.There is hereby appropriated from new revenue or other funds in the
Recreation Fund the sum of TWENTY-ONE THOUSAND SIXTY-NINE DOLLARS
($21 ,069)to be expended in the Recreation Fund for the support of Licensed City
Childcare Programs.
Section 2.The appropriation herein for the Colorado Department of Early
Childhood Stabilization 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.
ATTEST:
Effective Date:June 14,2024
Approving Attorney:Sara Arfmann