HomeMy WebLinkAbout110 - 07/15/2025 - APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED PHILANTHROPIC REVENUE RECEIVED THROUGH CITY GIVE FOR VARIOUS PROGRAMS ANORDINANCE NO. 110, 2025
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED PHILANTHROPIC
REVENUE RECEIVED THROUGH CITY GIVE FOR VARIOUS
PROGRAMS AND SERVICES
A.The City has received generous donations in 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 or capital
expenses throughout the city, including, but not limited to, cultural programs, public
safety, parks and recreation, and utility payment assistance.
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 appropriations described in
Section 1 of this Ordinance and determined that the amount of each of these
appropriations is available and previously unappropriated from the respective funds
named in Section 1 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.
E.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.
F.The City Council wishes to designate the appropriations herein for the
donations to the Creative District, Pianos About Town and 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:
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Section 1. 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 described below:
Lapsing/Non-
Fund Project Amount lapsing
Cultural Services &
Facilities Creative District
Cultural Services &
$7,500 Non-lapsing
Facilities Pianos About Town
Cultural Services &
$38,000 Non-lapsing
Facilities Lincoln Center $500 Lapsing
Cultural Services & Lincoln Center Summer
Facilities Concert $3,607 Lapsing
Cultural Services &
Facilities Visual Arts $1,000 Lapsing
General Next Gen, Volunteers $40 Lapsing
General Share Some Shade $450 Lapsing
General Share Some Shade $450 Lapsing
General Living Tribute Tree $500 Lapsing
General Living Tribute Tree $500 Lapsing
General Living Tribute Tree $500 Lapsing
General Living Tribute Tree $1,000 Lapsing
General Tribute Bench $1,000 Lapsing
General Pollinators in Parks $2,000 Lapsing
General 2025 Police Leaders Summit $10,000 Lapsing
General 2025 Police Leaders Summit $10,000 Lapsing
General K9 $10,000 Lapsing
General 4th of July $20,000 Lapsing
Light & Power Payment Assistance Fund $500 Non-lapsing
Recreation Pool Tables $200 Lapsing
Recreation Youth Sports $8,750 Lapsing
Recreation Pottery Studio $14,950 Lapsing
Transportation Services Open Streets $3,000 Lapsing
Section 2. The appropriation herein for the donations to the Creative District,
Pianos About Town and 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 favorably on first reading on July 1, 2025, and approved
on second reading for final passage on July 15, 2025.
Effective Date: July 25, 2025
Approving Attorney: Dianne Criswell
Exhibit: None
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