HomeMy WebLinkAbout130 - 09/02/2025 - MAKING A SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION OF AN ADDITIONAL AWARD FROM THE COLORADO AUTO THEFT PREVENTION AORDINANCE NO. 130, 2025
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
MAKING A SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION OF AN
ADDITIONAL AWARD FROM THE COLORADO AUTO THEFT
PREVENTION AUTHORITY GRANT FOR THE FORT COLLINS
POLICE SERVICES PROPERTY CRIMES UNIT
A.Fort Collins Police Services ("FCPS") is a member of the Beat Auto Theft
Through Law Enforcement ("BATTLE") program created by Colorado State Patrol
("CSP"). The purpose of BAT TLE is for member agencies to collaborate and work with
other law enforcement agencies around the state to investigate and respond to motor
vehicle theft related crimes, which has seen a steady growth within the City over the past
five years.
B.CSP manages the BATTLE program and provides grant funding
opportunities to member agencies to help cover personnel costs for the time that is
needed to prevent auto theft crimes.
C.In December 2024, CSP awarded FCPS $80,790 in capacity as a partner
agency of the BATTLE Task Force. On February 18, 2025, through Ordinance No. 011,
2025, the $80,790 award was appropriated. On April 24, 2025, FCPS was awarded an
additional $19,011 to cover anticipated fiscal year costs for equipment.
D.The BATTLE Task Force has now awarded FCPS an additional $54,200 in
grant funds to support CS P's plan to reduce auto theft for the North Region for the FY26
grant cycle. This grant money will help cover overtime costs associated with the FCPS
Property Crimes Unit work to support auto theft prevention measures in our community.
E.This appropriation benefits the public health, safety, and welfare of the
residents of Fort Collins and serves the public purpose of the prevention and investigation
of motor vehicle theft 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 this appropriation is available and previously unappropriated from
the General Fund and 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 for a federal, state or private grant
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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 federal,
state or private grant or the City's expenditure of all funds received from such grant.
I.The City Council wishes to designate the appropriation herein for the
Colorado Auto Theft Prevention Authority 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 FIFTY-FOUR TH OUSAND TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS
($54,200) to be expended in the General Fund for the Fort Collins Police Services
Property Crimes Unit.
Section 2. The appropriation herein for the Colorado Auto Theft Prevention
Authority 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 the City's expenditure of all funds received
from such grant.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading on August 19, 2025, and
approved on second reading for final passage on eptember 2, 2025.
ATTEST: J ;1,__.__ tiu:::JCity Cl
Effective Date: September 12, 2025
Approving Attorney: Dawn Downs
Exhibit: None
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