HomeMy WebLinkAbout105 - 09/01/2020 - APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED PHILANTHROPIC REVENUE RECEIVED BY CITY GIVE FOR TRANSFER TO THE RECREATI ORDINANCE NO. 105, 2020
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED PHILANTHROPIC REVENUE RECEIVED
BY CITY GIVE FOR TRANSFER TO THE RECREATION FUND FOR THE
FORT COLLINS SENIOR CENTER
WHEREAS, the Fort Collins Senior Center provides adults, especially those over 50, an
opportunity to access and engage in recreational opportunities, stay active and socialize, serving
over 300,000 visitors in 2019; and
WHEREAS, in 1989 a Designated Endowed Fund was established at the Community
Foundation of Northern Colorado (the "Endowed Fund") to provide funds for the benefit of the
Senior Center; and
WHEREAS, City Give has received a disbursement of $66,652 in revenue from the
Endowed Fund, and City staff is asking the City Council to appropriate such revenue to be spent
on general operating support for the Senior Center; and
WHEREAS, this appropriation benefits public health, safety and welfare of the citizens
of Fort Collins and serves the public purpose of providing for the ongoing operation of a public
recreation facility; 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, the City Manager has recommended the appropriation described herein and
determined that these appropriations are 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 to be received in these funds during the fiscal
year; and
WHEREAS, Article V, Section 10, of the City Charter authorizes the City Council to
transfer by ordinance any unexpended and unencumbered appropriated amount or portion thereof
from one fund or capital project account to another fund or capital project account, provided that
the purpose for which the transferred funds are to be expended remains unchanged; and
WHEREAS, the City Manager has recommended the transfer described herein and
determined that the purpose for which the transferred funds are to be expended remains
unchanged.
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 philanthropic
revenue in the General Fund the sum of SIXTY-SIX THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED FIFTY-
TWO DOLLARS ($66,652) for transfer to the Recreation Fund and appropriated therein for the
Fort Collins Senior Center.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 18th day of
August, A.D. 2020, and to be presented for final passage on the I st day of September, A.D.
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