HomeMy WebLinkAbout085 - 07/19/2022 - MAKING SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS OF GRANT FUNDS FROM THE POOLS SPECIAL INITIATIVE 2022 PROGRAMORDINANCE NO.085, 2022
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
MAKING SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS OF GRANT FUNDS FROM THE
POOLS SPECIAL INITIATIVE 2022 PROGRAM
WHEREAS, on June 21, 2022, Governor Polis announced the Pools Special Initiative 2022
program for local governments to support the operations of public swimming pools across the state
for the 2022 summer season; and
WHEREAS, this one-time grant program, administered by the Colorado Department of
Local Affairs ("DOLA") is intended to provide incentives to attract and retain public swimming
pool employees through the summer and ensure adequate staffing levels that will allow swimming
pools to be open at maximum capacity; and
WHEREAS, On July 1, 2022, the City received confirmation from DOLA that it would
receive a grant in the amount of $12,500; and
WIIEREAS, the City's application and the DOLA award letter constitute the grant
agreement; and
WHEREAS, these funds must be appropriated promptly so that they can be spent on the
recruitment and retention of lifeguards during the funding period, which runs from July 1, 2022
through September 30, 2022; and
WHEREAS, this appropriation benefits the public health, safety and welfare of the
residents of Fort Collins and serves the public purpose of ensuring that City pools can maintain
adequate staffing levels to stay open during the summer; 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
Recreation Fund and will not cause the total amount appropriated in the Recreation 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.
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
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WHEREAS, the City Council wishes to designate the appropriation herein for the Pools
Special Initiative 2022 grant 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
Recreation Fund the sum of TWELVE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($12,500) to
be expended for the recruitment and retention of lifeguards.
Section 3. That the appropriation herein for the Pools Special Initiative 2022 program
is hereby designated, as authorized in Article V, Section 1 l 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 Sth day of
July, A.D. 2022, and to be presented for final passage on the 19th day of July, A.D. 2022.
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Passed and adopted on final read 19th day o ly, A.D. 2022.
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