HomeMy WebLinkAbout043 - 04/01/2025 - APPROPRIATING PRIOR YEAR RESERVES AND UNANTICIPATED PHILANTHROPIC REVENUE RECEIVED THROUGH CITY GIVEORDINANCE NO.043,2025
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING PRIOR YEAR RESERVES AND
UNANTICIPATED PHILANTHROPIC REVENUE RECEIVED
THROUGH CITY GIVE FOR VARIOUS PROGRAMS AND
SERVICES AS DESIGNATED BY THE DONORS
A.The City has received generous donations in 2024 and 2025 through its City
Give program,both large and modest,as philanthropic gifts to the public and the City
programs and activities to serve the community.
B.This appropriation benefits the public health,safety,and welfare of the
residents of Fort Collins and serves the public purpose of supporting programs throughout
the city,including,but not limited to,volunteer services,cultural and arts,parks and
recreation police services,conflict transformation,and forestry.
C.Article V,Section 9 of the City Charter permits the City Council,upon the
recommendation of the City Manager,to make supplemental appropriations by ordinance
at any time during the fiscal year from such revenues and funds for expenditure as may
be available from reserves accumulated in prior years,notwithstanding that such reserves
were not previously appropriated.
D.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.
E.The City Manager has recommended the appropriations described in
Sections 1 and 2 of this Ordinance and determined that the amount of each of these
appropriations is available and previously unappropriated from the funds named in
Sections 1 and 2 and will not cause the total amount appropriated in each such fund to
exceed the current estimate of actual and anticipated revenues to be received in those
funds during this fiscal year.
F.Article V,Section 11 of the City Charter authorizes the City Council to
designate in the ordinance when appropriating funds,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 donation or the
City’s expenditure of all funds received from such donation.
G.The City Council wishes to designate the appropriation herein for the
donations to the Payment Assistance Fund as appropriations that shall not lapse until the
earlier of the expiration of the donation or the City’s expenditure of all funds received from
such donation.
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 the following funds these amounts
of philanthropic revenue held in prior year reserves to be expended as designated by the
donors in support of the various City programs and services as described in the Agenda
Item Summary.
General Fund $1,500
Light and Power,donations to the
Payment Assistance Fund $500
Section 2.There is hereby appropriated from the following funds these amounts
of philanthropic revenue received in 2025 to be expended as designated by the donors in
support of the various City programs and services as described in the Agenda Item
Summary.
General Fund $7,900
Light and Power,donations to the
Payment Assistance Fund
Natural Areas Fund
Cultural Services and Facilities Fund $16,607
Section 3.The appropriation herein for the donations to the Payment
Assistance Fund are hereby designated,as authorized in Article V,Section 11 of the City
Charter,as appropriations that shall not lapse at the end of this fiscal year but until the
earlier of the expiration of the donation or the City’s expenditure of all funds received from
such donation.
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Introduced,considered favora •y on irs rea •ing on March 18,2025,and approved
on second reading for final passage on April 1,2025.
Effective Date:April 11,2025
Approving Attorney:Dianne Criswell
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