HomeMy WebLinkAbout056 - 04/15/2025 - APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED PHILANTHROPIC REVENUE RECEIVED THROUGH CITY GIVE FOR THE POTTERY STUDIOORDINANCE NO.056,2025
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED PHILANTHROPIC
REVENUE RECEIVED THROUGH CITY GIVE FOR THE
POTTERY STUDIO AS DESIGNATED BY THE DONOR
A.The City of Fort Collins has long been the beneficiary of local philanthropy.
Generosity is demonstrated in both large and modest gifts,each appreciated for its
investment in the mission and the range of services the City strives to deliver.
B.The City has received a philanthropic gift of $550,925 that requires
appropriation by City Council.This gift came from the estate of Patricia Berhost with the
designation that it be for the Pottery Studio.
C.This appropriation benefits the public health,safety,and welfare of the
residents of Fort Collins and serves the public purpose of supporting the City’s Pottery
Studio in providing programs and services to the community.
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 appropriation described herein
and determined that the funds to be appropriated are available and previously
unappropriated from the Recreation Fund and that this appropriation will not cause the
total amount appropriated in the Recreation 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.
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.
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 philanthropic revenue in the
Recreation Fund the sum of FIVE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED
TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS ($550,925)to be expended in the Recreation Fund for the
Pottery Studio.
Section 2.The appropriation herein is 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 until the earlier of the expiration of the donation or the City’s expenditure
of all funds received from such donation.
Introduced,considered favorably on first reading on April 1,2025,and approved
on second reading for final passage on April 15,2025.
Mayor Pro Te
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Effective Date:April 25,2025
Approving Attorney:Sara Arl’mann