HomeMy WebLinkAbout084 - 07/05/2017 - APPROPRIATING PRIOR YEAR RESERVES IN THE GENERAL FUND FOR LARIMER COUNTY JAIL SERVICES (2)ORDINANCE NO. 084,2017
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING PRIOR YEAR RESERVES
IN THE GENERAL FUND FOR LARIMER COUNTY JAIL SERVICES
WHEREAS, in 2009 the City of Fort Collins and the City of Loveland entered into an
agreement with Larimer County whereby the County agreed to provide municipal jail services
to both cities at a rate of$50 per offender per day, plus a separate fee for video arraignments
the "2009 IGA"); and
WHEREAS, the 2009 IGA allows the County Sheriff to release municipal offenders if
the Larimer County Jail ("Jail") is at capacity; and
WHEREAS, the 2009 IGA can be terminated by any party on 60 days' notice to the other
parties; and
WHEREAS, since 2009 the Jail has had issues with overcrowding, and municipal
defendants who are picked up on outstanding warrants or who report to the Jail to serve
sentences for Municipal Court violations are frequently just booked and released again; and
WHEREAS, in 2016 the Jail expressed an interest in negotiating new, separate
agreements with both Fort Collins and Loveland for jail services, in part to increase the rate
charged per day for municipal offenders; and
WHEREAS, because of the problems Fort Collins has experienced with municipal
offenders rarely being held by the Jail long enough to be brought to court or to serve their
sentences, the Jail also offered Fort Collins the option of having three bed spaces that would be
reserved for Fort Collins, meaning municipal offenders, whether being held as short-term, pre-
trial detainees, or serving a municipal sentence, would not be released simply due to capacity
issues at the Jail; and
WHEREAS, the Municipal Court would decide which defendants would be held in
reserved spaces, and other municipal offenders would continue to be held at the jail on a space-
available basis; and
WHEREAS, over the last six months City staff and Jail staff have negotiated a new
agreement, the 2017 IGA; and
WHEREAS, under the 2017 IGA the City would pay a daily cost for each City offender
housed at the jail, whether in a reserved bed space or not, based on the Jail's actual per inmate
cost as of two years prior; and
WHEREAS, for the remainder of 2017 the County has agreed to a discounted rate of$90
per full day, with this rate increasing to $118 per day on January 1, 2018, and no additional
charge for video arraignments; and
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WHEREAS, upon execution of the 2017 IGA the City would pay for the three reserved
beds spaces for the remainder of 2017, which, discounted and prorated for the remainder of the
year and at the discounted rate, would total approximately $58,000; and
WHEREAS, additional funding required for these services in 2017 is $39,560; and
WHEREAS, the City has made payment to Larimer County per the terms of the new IGA
with existing General Fund appropriations and the General Fund appropriation authorized by this
Ordinance will backfill the previously existing General Fund appropriation; and
WHEREAS, in January the City would pay the fee for the three reserved bed spaces for
2018, which will be $129,210; and
WHEREAS, Article V, Section 9 of the City Charter permits the City Council to
appropriate by ordinance at any time during the fiscal year such funds for expenditure as may be
available from reserves accumulated in prior years, notwithstanding-that such reserves were not
previously appropriated; and
WHEREAS, City staff has determined that the appropriations as described herein are
available-and previously unappropriated in the General Fund.
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 prior year reserves in the General
Fund the sum of THIRTY NINE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED SIXTY DOLLARS
39,560) for Jail Services.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 6th day of
June, A.D. 2017, and to be presented for final passage on the 5th day of July, A.D. 2017.
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Passed and adopted on final reading on the 5th day of July, A.D. 2017.
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