HomeMy WebLinkAbout044 - 05/03/2022 - MAKING SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS OF LARIMER COUNTY FISCAL RECOVERY FUNDS TO THE CITY TO SUPPORT THORDINANCE NO. 044, 2022
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
MAKING A SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION OF LARIMER COUNTY FISCAL
RECOVERY FUNDS TO THE CITY TO SUPPORT THE MOBILE HOME PARK
BACKFLOW PREVENTER PROJECT
WHEREAS, Larimer County has awarded the City $132,500 from the County's American
Rescue Plan Act Fiscal Recovery Funds for the City to install approximately eight or nine water
backflow preventers at certain water system connection points with mobile home (the "Project");
and
WHEREAS, backflow preventers ensure clean drinking water flows in one direction and
wastewater cannot flow backwards from privately -owned infrastructure into community water
supplies; and
WHEREAS, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment notified the
City's water utility that the City must ensure that mobile home parks that distribute drinking water
and rebill more than 25 households for water service must comply with certain requirements
including installation of backflow preventers; and
WHEREAS, the funds for the Project are to be administered by the City pursuant to an
Intergovernmental Agreement with Larimer County, approved through City Council Resolution
XX; and
WHEREAS, this appropriation benefits the public health, safety and welfare of the
residents of Fort Collins and serves the public purpose of protecting the City's drinking water
supply; and
WHEREAS, 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; and
WHEREAS, the Interim 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; and
WHEREAS, 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 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 donation or the City's expenditure of all funds received from such grant or donation; and
WHEREAS, the City Council wishes to designate the appropriation herein from the Fiscal
Recovery Funds from Larimer County for the Mobile Home Park Backflow Preventer Project 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.
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 new revenue or other funds in the
General Fund the sum of ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-TWO THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED
DOLLARS ($132,500) to be expended in the General Fund for the Mobile Home Pack Backflow
Preventer Project.
Section 3. That the appropriation herein from the Fiscal Recovery Funds from Larimer
County for the Mobile Home Park Backflow Preventer Project 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, and ordered published this 19th day of
April, A.D. 2022, and to be presented for final passage on the 3rd day of May, A.D. 2022.
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Passed and adopted on final reading on the 3rd day of May, A.D. 2022.
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