HomeMy WebLinkAbout046 - 03/21/2017 - APPROPRIATING PRIOR YEAR RESERVES IN THE KEEP FORT COLLINS GREAT FUND FOR THE POLICE CAMPUS WEST SUB (2)ORDINANCE NO. 046, 2017
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING PRIOR YEAR RESERVES IN
THE KEEP FORT COLLINS GREAT FUND FOR THE POLICE CAMPUS WEST
SUBSTATION BUILD-OUT
WHEREAS, the City is negotiating to lease space for a new police substation in the
Campus West area; and
WHEREAS, the Campus West substation reflects a Council priority to establish a
police/community substation in the Campus West area and Police Services is partnering with
Neighborhood Services, Code Compliance, Colorado State University (CSU) Off Campus Life,
CSU Student Affairs, CSU Police Department and the City/CSU Community Liaison to rotate
staff to the office and offer a broad range of services and visibility to students, renters, long term
residents, and businesses in the area; and
WHEREAS, the office will provide a more permanent police, City, and CSU
collaborative presence, impact crime, address quality of life issues such as loud parties,' and
provide more direct customer service; and
WHEREAS, at inception it was anticipated that market timing would dictate that a lease
would be signed before the end of the 2016 fiscal year, with lease payments beginning in 2017
and initial build-out costs paid with 2016 funding; and
WHEREAS, funding for ongoing lease payments, utilities, and other operating expenses
was approved in the 2017-2018 budget; and
WHEREAS, delays during the budget process and higher than expected build-out
estimates did not allow funding for the initial build-out to be appropriated in 2016, as a lease was
not yet finalized; and
WHEREAS, an agreement with the landlord has been finalized in principle for build-out
costs (subject to finalizing a lease agreement) totaling approximately$218,750; and
WHEREAS, this Ordinance would authorize and appropriate funding of$218,750 for the
Campus West Substation build-out from the KFCG Police Reserves account; and
WHEREAS, Article V, Section 9, of the City Charter permits the City Council to make
supplemental appropriations by ordinance at any time during the fiscal year, provided that the
total amount of such supplemental appropriations, in combination with all previous
appropriations for that fiscal year, does not exceed the current estimate of actual and anticipated
revenues to be received during the fiscal year; 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
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available from reserves accumulated in prior years, notwithstanding that such'reserves were not
previously appropriated; and
WHEREAS, City staff have determined that the appropriations as described herein are
available and previously unappropriated in the Keep Fort Collins Great 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 Keep Fort
Collins Great Fund the sum of TWO HUNDRED EIGHTEEN THOUSAND SEVEN
HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS ($218,750) for expenditure in the Keep Fort Collins Great Fund
for the Fort Collins Police Services Campus West Substation build-out.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 7th day of
March, A.D. 2017, and to be presented for final passage on the 2lst day of March, A.D. 2017.
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Passed and adopted on final reading on the 21st day of March, A.D. 2017.
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