HomeMy WebLinkAbout001 - 01/16/2018 - APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED GRANT REVENUE IN THE GENERAL FUND FOR THE FORT COLLINS POLICE SERVICES V ORDINANCE NO. 001, 2018
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED GRANT REVENUE IN
THE GENERAL FUND FOR THE FORT COLLINS POLICE
SERVICES VICTIM SERVICES UNIT
WHEREAS, Fort Collins Police Services has been awarded a grant in the amount of
$45,500 (the "Grant") for the period from January 1, 2018, to December 31, 2018, by the Eighth
Judicial District Victim Assistance and Law Enforcement ("VALE") Board to support the Fort
Collins Police Services Victim Services Unit ("Victim Services"); and
WHEREAS, Victim Services provides crisis intervention, resources and referral services
to victims of violent crime and other traumatic situations; and
WHEREAS,the Grant will be used to fund a part of the salary for the victim advocate who
provides crisis intervention services, a part-time victim advocate, and to .partially pay for
operational expenses needed to provide 24-hour a day, 7-day a week service to victims of crime in
the community; and
WHEREAS, Article V, Section 9, of the City 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, appropriation of the Grant serves a public purpose by assisting crime victims
in the Fort Collins community; and
WHEREAS, City staff has determined that the appropriation of the Grant from the VALE
Board to support Victim Services will not cause the total amount appropriated in the Police
Services fund to exceed the current estimate of actual and anticipated revenues to be received in
that fund during any fiscal year.
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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS as follows:
Section 1. That the City Council hereby makes and adopts the determinations and
findings contained in the recitals set forth above.
Section 2. That there is hereby appropriated from unanticipated grant revenue in the
General Fund the sum of FORTY-FIVE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($45,500)
for expenditure in the General Fund for the Fort Collins Police Services Victim Services Unit.
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Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 2nd day of {
January, A.D. 2018, and to be presented for final passage on the 16th day of January, A.D. 2018.
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Passed and adopted on final readinof January, A.D. 2018.
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