HomeMy WebLinkAbout020 - 03/03/2009 - APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED GRANT REVENUE AND TRANSFERRING PRIOR YEAR RESERVES IN THE LARIMER COUNTY ORDINANCE NO.020, 2009
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED GRANT REVENUE AND
TRANSFERRING PRIOR YEAR RESERVES IN THE
LARIMER COUNTY DRUG TASK FORCE RESERVE TO THE
GENERAL FUND FOR THE LARIMER COUNTY DRUG TASK FORCE
WHEREAS, the Office of National Drug Control Policy has awarded Fort Collins Police
Services ("FCPS") a grant of federal money in the amount of$45,150; and
WHEREAS,the Office of Drug Control and System Improvement has awarded FCPS a grant
in the amount of$21,536; and
WHEREAS, there are $210,000 in prior year reserves in the Larimer County Drug Task
Force Reserve in the General Fund; and
WHEREAS,the two grants and prior reserve funds will be used by the Larimer County Drug
Task Force (the "Task Force") to help fund the investigation of illegal narcotics activities and the
2009 annual operating budget of the Task Force; and
WHEREAS, the Task Force consists of representatives from FCPS, Loveland Police
Department, and the Colorado State University Police Department; and
WHEREAS, the City and FCPS will administer the two grants for the Task Force; and
WHEREAS, Article V, Section 9, of the Charter of the City of Fort Collins (the "Charter")
permits the City Council to make supplemental appropriations by ordinance at any time during the
fiscal year,provided that the total amount of such supplemental appropriations,in combination with
all previous appropriations for that fiscal year, does not exceed the current estimate of actual and
anticipated revenues to be received during the fiscal year; and
WHEREAS,Article V, Section 9, of the Charter permits the City Council to appropriate by
ordinance at any time during the fiscal year such funds for expenditure as may be available from
reserves accumulated in prior years, notwithstanding that such reserves were not previously
appropriated; and
WHEREAS,City staff has determined that the appropriation of the grant funds as described
herein will not cause the total amount appropriated in the General Fund to exceed the current
estimate of actual and anticipated revenues to be received in that fund during the fiscal year.
WHEREAS, it is the desire of the City Council to appropriate unanticipated revenue and
prior year reserves in the Larimer County Drug Task Force Reserve for transfer to the General Fund
for appropriation therein for Police Services for the Multi jurisdictional Drug Task Force Grant
Project.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS as follows:
Section 1. That there is hereby appropriated from unanticipated grant revenue in the
General Fund the sum of SIXTY SIX THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED EIGHTY SIX DOLLARS
($66,686) for expenditure, upon receipt, in the General Fund for Police Services for the Multi-
jurisdictional Drug Task Force Grant Project.
Section 2. That there is hereby appropriated from prior year reserves in the Larimer
County Drug Task Force Reserve the sum of TWO HUNDRED TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS
($210,000) for transfer to the General Fund, and appropriated therein, for Police Services for the
Multi jurisdictional Drug Task Force Grant Project.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 17th day of
February, A.D. 2009, and to be presented for final passage on 3rd day of March, A.D. 2009.
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Passed and adopted on final reading on the 3rd day of March,>hr200�9.
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