HomeMy WebLinkAbout020 - 03/04/2025 - APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED PHILANTHROPIC REVENUE RECEIVED BY CITY GIVE FOR IMMIGRATION LEGAL FUND,ORDINANCE NO.020,2025
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED PHILANTHROPIC
REVENUE RECEIVED BY CITY GIVE FOR IMMIGRATION
LEGAL FUND,NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES AS DESIGNATED
BY THE DONOR
A.The Colorado Health Foundation has generously donated $100,000 to
support City programs and services relating to legal representation,education and
outreach,and legal clinics for City residents’immigration issues.
B.This appropriation benefits the public health,safety,and welfare of the
residents of Fort Collins and serves the public purpose of supporting the necessary
programs and services for which the Immigration Legal Fund was established.
C.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.
D.The City Manager has recommended the appropriation described herein
and determined that the funds to be appropriated are available and previously
unappropriated from the General Fund and that this appropriation 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.
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 that there is hereby appropriated from new philanthropic revenue in the
General Fund the sum of ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($100,000)to be
expended in the General Fund for Immigration Legal Fund.
Introduced,considered favorably on first reading on February 18,2025,and
approved on second reading for final passage on March 4 025.-
ATrEST:
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City Clj
Effective Date:March 14,2025
Approving Attorney:Dianne Criswell
May.r.
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