HomeMy WebLinkAbout039 - 03/18/2025 - MAKING A SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION OF FUNDS RECEIVED FROM THE COLORADO DIVISION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICEORDINANCE NO.039,2025
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
MAKING A SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION OF FUNDS
RECEIVED FROM THE COLORADO DIVISION OF CRIMINAL
JUSTICE UNDER THE FEDERAL VICTIM OF CRIME ACT IN THE
GENERAL FUND FOR THE FORT COLLINS POLICE SERVICES
VICTIM SERVICES UNIT
A.Fort Collins Police Services has been awarded a grant by the Colorado
Division of Criminal Justice in the amount of $17,505 (the “Grant”)under the Federal
Victim of Crime Act (“VOCA”)to support the Fort Collins Police Services Victim Services
Unit (“Victim Services”)for the period from January 1,2025,to December 31,2025.
B.Victim Services provides crisis intervention,resources and referral services
to victims of violent crime and other traumatic situations.
C.The Grant will be used to fund a part of the salary for the victim advocate
who provides crisis intervention services for sexual assault victims between school ages
of kindergarten through 12th grade.
D.Appropriation of the Grant serves a public purpose by assisting crime
victims in the Fort Collins community.
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 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.
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,
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 or donation
H.The City Council wishes to designate the appropriation herein from the
Colorado Division of Criminal Justice under the Federal Victim of Crime Act 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 SEVENTEEN THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED FIVE DOLLARS
($17,505)to be expended in the General Fund for the Fort Collins Police Services Victim
Services Unit.
Section 2.The appropriation herein from the Colorado Division of Criminal
Justice under the Federal Victim of Crime Act 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 March 4,2025,and approved
on second reading for final passage on March 18,2025.
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Effective Date:March 28,2025
Approving Attorney:Dawn Downs
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