HomeMy WebLinkAbout065 - 06/21/2022 - MAKING A SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION OF FISCAL RECOVERY FUNDS FROM LARIMER COUNTY TO THE CULTURAL SERORDINANCE NO.065, 2022
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
MAKING A SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION OF
FISCAL RECOVERY FUNDS FROM LARIMER COUNTY TO THE
CULTURAL SERVICES AND FACILITIES FUND FOR PAID INTERNS
WHEREAS, Larimer County's Economic and Workforce Development Department
("EWDD") received nearly $4 million in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds to assist
individuals directly impacted by the effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic; and
WHEREAS, the EWDD created the Workforce Innovation Grant process to distribute
these ARPA funds to support training for unemployed and underemployed individuals during
times of substantial unemployment; and
WHEREAS, City staff from the Gardens on Spring Creek partnered with the Neighborhood
Services Department and the Volunteer Services Division to create a cohesive intern strategy and
program that will fund 42 paid City internships over the course of two years ("the Program"); and
WHEREAS, the EWDD selected the Program for funding through the Workforce
Innovation Grant process, awarding a grant totaling $149,599, which fully funds the Program; and
WHEREAS, the Interim City Manager, on behalf of the City, has executed a subrecipient
agreement with Larimer County to govern the grant; and
WHEREAS, this appropriation benefits the public health, safety and welfare of the
residents of Fort Collins and serves the public purpose of funding a workforce development
program; 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
Cultural Services and Facilities Fund and will not cause the total amount appropriated in the
Cultural Services and Facilities 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, 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; and
WHEREAS, the City Council wishes to designate the appropriation herein from the Fiscal
Recovery Funds from Larimer County to the Cultural Services and Facilities Fund for the Program
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
Cultural Services and Facilities Fund the sum of ONE HUNDRED FORTY-NINE THOUSAND
FIVE HUNDRED FIFTY-NINE DOLLARS ($149,559) to be expended in the Cultural Services
and Facilities Fund for the Program.
Section 3. That the appropriation herein from the Fiscal Recovery Funds from Larimer
County to the Cultural Services and Facilities Fund for the Program 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 7th day of
June, A.D. 2022, and to be presented for finaLpassal
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