HomeMy WebLinkAbout141 - 12/20/2022 - MAKING SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS FROM THE STATE OF COLORADO CHILDCARE OPERATIONS STABILIZATION ANDORDINANCE NO.141,2022
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
MAKING SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS FROM THE STATE OF COLORADO
CH]LDCARE OPERATIONS STABILIZATION AND WORKFORCE SUSTAINABJLH’Y
GRANT PROGRAM AND REVIEWING AND APPROVING OF THE GRANT FUNDING
WHEREAS,the State of Colorado’s Department of Early Childhood has awarded the City
two grants totaling up to $84,449 through its Childcare Operations Stabilization and Workforce
Sustainability Grant Program to help fund the City’s licensed childcare programs (the “Grants”);
and
WHEREAS,the Grants may be used by the City’s licensed childcare programs for
childcare operational expenses,childcare programming,necessary health and safety facility
enhancements,and workforce retention;and
WHEREAS,the Grants require no contribution of matching funds;and
WHEREAS,this appropriation benefits the public health,safety and welfare of the
residents of Fort Collins and serves the public purpose of funding publicly-provided childcare;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 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
WHEREAS,the City Council wishes to designate the appropriation herein from the Grants
as an appropriation that shall not lapse until the earlier of the expiration of the Grants or the City’s
expenditure of all funds received from the Grants.
NOW,THEREFORE,BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE C1TY OF FORT
COLLINS as follows:
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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 EIGHTY-FOUR THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED FORTY-NINE
DOLLARS ($84,449)to be expended in the Recreation Fund for childcare programming,tuition
assistance,workforce retention,and facility enhancements.
Section 3.That the appropriation herein from the Grants 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 Grants or the City’s
expenditure of all funds received from the Grants.
Section 4.That the City Council has reviewed the Grants and approves of such funding
and further authorizes the City Manager to take appropriate action necessary to be able to expend
the grant funds as contemplated by the Childcare Operations Stabilization and Workforce
Sustainability Grant Program.
Introduced,considered favorably on first reading,and ordered published this 6th day of
December,A.D.2022,and to be presented for final passage on the 20th day of December,A.D.
2022.
ATTEST:
Passed and adopted on final reading on the 20th day of December,A.D.2022.
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