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Ordinance No. 092 , 2024
ORDINANCE NO. 079, 2024
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
MAKING A SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION AND
AUTHORIZING TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE
GARDENS ON SPRING CREEK INTERNSHIP PROGRAM
A. The Colorado Department of Agriculture’s (CDA) Agricultural Workforce
Development Program (AWDP) provides financial incentives to farms, ranches, and
agricultural businesses to hire interns and provide them with hands-on training needed to
begin a career in agriculture.
B. The Gardens on Spring Creek applied for funding to continue to provide
paid internship opportunities for learners. By creating paid opportunities for students to
support career readiness, the City expects to increase students’ skillsets to better prepare
them for quality jobs, while decreasing the financial burden an unpaid internship can
cause.
C. The Gardens was awarded one horticulture internship of $4,200 for the
summer of 2024. This internship will work directly in the Garden of Eatin’, an acre garden
dedicated to food production where all produce is donated to the Food Bank of Larimer
County, as well as with the Community Gardens Program, which allows residents to grow
their own fruits, vegetables, herbs and annual flowers in one of the City’s eight community
gardens.
D. This appropriation benefits public health, safety and welfare of the citizens
of Fort Collins and the intern’s work serves the public purpose of improving a public
cultural facility.
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 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.
D. Article V, Section 10 of the City Charter authorizes the City Council, upon
recommendation by the City Manager, to transfer by ordinance any unexpended and
unencumbered appropriated amount or portion thereof from one fund or capital project to
another fund or capital project, provided that the purpose for which the transferred funds
appropriated no longer exists,or the proposed transfer is from a fund or capital project in
which the amount appropriated exceeds the amount needed to accomplish the purpose
specified in the appropriation ordinance;and
E.The City Manager has recommended the transfer of $4,200 from the
Cultural Services and Facilities Fund Operating Budget to Cultural Services and Facilities
Fund Grant Project Budget and determined that the purpose for which the transferred
funds are to be expended remains unchanged.
F.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.
G.The City Council wishes to designate the appropriation herein for the
Gardens on Spring Creek Internship Program 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
Cultural Services and Facilities Fund the sum of FOUR THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED
DOLLARS ($4,200)to be expended in the Cultural Services and Facilities Fund for
Gardens on Spring Creek Internship Program.
Section 2.The unexpended and unencumbered appropriated amount of FOUR
THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS ($4,200)is authorized for transfer from the
Cultural Services and Facilities Fund Operating Budget to Cultural Services and Facilities
Fund Grant Project Budget and appropriated therein to be expended for Gardens on
Spring Creek Internship Program.
Section 3.The appropriation herein for the Gardens on Spring Creek Internship
Program 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 June 4,2024,and approved
on second reading for final passage on June 18,2024.
V
Mayo~o Tern
ATTEST:
Interim City Clerk
Effective Date:June 28,2024
Approving Attorney:Jenny Lopez Filkins