HomeMy WebLinkAbout122 - 08/19/2025 - MAKING A SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION OF GRANTORDINANCE NO.122,2025
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
MAKING A SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION OF GRANT
FUNDS FROM THE COLORADO OFFICE OF JUSTICE
PROGRAMS 2024 EDWARD BYRNE MEMORIAL JUSTICE
ASSISTANCE GRANT PROGRAM GRANT AWARD FOR FORT
COLLINS POLICE SERVICES
A.The Northern Colorado Drug Task Force (the “Drug Task Force”)is
managed by the Larimer County Sheriff Department,with both Fort Collins Police
Services and Loveland Police being members.These member agencies support a broad
range of activities to prevent and control drug-related crimes.
B.Larimer County applied for and was awarded $50,489 through the 2024
Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (“JAG”)program in support of operating
the Drug Task Force.
C.The City of Fort Collins,City of Loveland,and Larimer County have entered
into an intergovernmental agreement demonstrating the allocation of the $50,489
awarded under JAG in support of the Drug Task Force.Fort Collins Police Services
received $15,025 to support personnel costs and other operating costs directly aftributed
to the Drug Task Force.
D.The $15,025 in JAG grant funds supports Fort Collins Police Services
covering some of the operational and personnel costs incurred as a member of the Drug
Task Force.
E.This appropriation benefits the public health,safety,and welfare of the
residents of Fort Collins and serves the public purpose of keeping Northern Colorado
communities safer through work to prevent and control drug-related crimes.
F.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.
G.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.
H.Article V,Section 11 of the City Charter authorizes the City Council to
designate in the ordinance when appropriating funds Colorado Office of Justice JAG
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 donation or the City’s expenditure of all funds received from such grant
or donation.
I.The City Council wishes to designate the appropriation herein for the
Colorado Office of Justice JAG Grant 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 FIFTEEN THOUSAND TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS ($15,025)to
be expended in the General Fund for the Colorado Office of Justice 2024 JAG Grant.
Section 2.The appropriation herein for Colorado Office of Justice JAG 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 until the earlier
of the expiration of the grant (or donation)or the City’s expenditure of all funds received
from such grant.
Introduced,considered favorably on first reading on July 15,2025,and approved
on second reading for final passage on August 19,2025.
~~~Kayor
ATTEST:
Sr.Deputy City Clerk
Effective Date:August 29,2025
Approving Attorney:Dawn Downs
Exhibit:None