HomeMy WebLinkAbout123 - 08/19/2025 - MAKING A SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION OF GRANT FUNDS FROM THE COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION HIORDINANCE NO.123,2025
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
MAKING A SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION OF GRANT
FUNDS FROM THE COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF
TRANSPORTATION HIGHWAY SAFETY OFFICE FOR POLICE
SERVICES HIGH VISIBILITY IMPAIRED DRIVING
ENFORCEMENT FY26 GRANT AWARD
A.The Colorado Department of Transportation’s Office of Transportation
Safety (“OTS”)provides annual funding for local police enforcement of Colorado’s
impaired driving laws during specific “high visibility”time periods.
B.Fort Collins Police Services (“FCPS”)was awarded $25,474 through the
High Visibility Impaired Driving Enforcement (“HVE”)grant to support personnel costs and
other operating costs directly attributed to HVE grant activities.
C.This grant is for the period July 1,2025 -June 30,2026,and covers
overtime pay for FCPS officers enforcing Colorado’s impaired driving laws through
saturation patrols,increased patrols,or dedicated enforcement cars during the selected
enforcement periods.This grant also provides funds for community engagement and
outreach to educate the public on the dangers,risks,and consequences of impaired
driving.
D.The $25,474 in unanticipated funds from the HVE grant will help support
enhanced enforcement efforts and presence at several festivals and community
engagement events.
E.This appropriation benefits the public health,safety,and welfare of the
residents of Fort Collins and serves the public purpose of providing enhanced impaired
driving enforcement during specific time periods and to engage in community education
and outreach.
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 Department of
Transportation Police Services High Visibility Impaired Driving Enforcement 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.
The City Council wishes to designate the appropriation herein for the
Transportation Police Services High Visibility Impaired Driving Enforcement 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 TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED SEVENTY-
FOUR DOLLARS ($25,474)to be expended in the General Fund for Colorado
Department of Transportation Police Services High Visibility Impaired Driving
Enforcement Grant.
Section 2.The appropriation herein for the Colorado Department of
Transportation Police Services High Visibility Impaired Driving Enforcement 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.?3~C)
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~?Ebeputy TClerk
Effective Date:August 29,2025
Approving Attorney:Dawn Downs
Exhibit:None