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HomeMy WebLinkAbout037 - 03/18/2025 - MAKING A SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION AND AUTHORIZING TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE GARDENS ON SPORDINANCE NO.037,2025 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 with the CDA to continue to provide the paid internship opportunities.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 funding through the AWDP for two horticulture internships of up to $4,900 each for the summer of 2025 (the “Grants”).One intern will work directly in the Garden of Eatin’,a one-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.The second intern will support the propagation and care of over 30,000 vegetable,annual and perennial crops grown for the community and to be planted onsite throughout the 12 acres of the Gardens on Spring Creek.The Grants require a total City match of $9,800,which is available and requires Council’s approval for transfer to the appropriate fund. D.This appropriation benefits public health,safety and welfare of the citizens of Fort Collins and the interns’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 the funds to be appropriated are available and previously unappropriated from the Cultural Services and Facilities Fund and that this appropriation 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. —1— G.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 are to be expended remains unchanged,the purpose for which the funds were initially 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. H.The City Manager has recommended the transfer of $9,800 from the Cultural Services and Facilities Fund Gardens on Spring Creek Operating Budget to the Cultural Services and Facilities Fund Gardens on Spring Creek Internship Budget and determined that the purpose for which the transferred funds are to be expended remains unchanged. 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 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. J.The City Council wishes to designate the appropriation herein for Garden’s on Spring Creek Internship program 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 NINE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED DOLLARS ($9,800)to be expended in Cultural Services and Facilities Fund for the Gardens on Spring Creek Internship program. Section 2.The unexpended and unencumbered appropriated amount of NINE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED DOLLARS ($9,800)is authorized for transfer from the Gardens on Spring Creek Operating budget in the Cultural Services and Facilities Fund to the Gardens on Spring Creek Grant budget in Cultural Services and Facilities Fund and appropriated therein to be expended for the Gardens on Spring Creek Internship program. Section 3.The appropriation herein for 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 or the City’s expenditure of all funds received from such grant. -2- Introduced,considered favorably on first reading on March 4,2025,and approved on second reading for final passage on March 18,202 ityC Effective Date:March 28,2025 Approving Attorney:Ted Hewitt — ATTEST: