HomeMy WebLinkAbout109 - 09/05/2023 - MAKING A SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION FROM THE COLORADO DIVISION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE OF UNANTICIPATEDORDINANCE NO.109,2023
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
MAKING A SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION FROM THE
COLORADO DIVISION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE OF UNANTICIPATED GRANT
REVENUE FOR VARIOUS RESTORATIVE JUSTICE SERVICES PROGRAMS
WHEREAS,Restorative Justice Services (“RJS”)is a division within the Neighborhood
Services department that operates three programs:RESTORE for shoplifting offenses,and the
Restorative Justice Conferencing Program and the Reflect Program for all other offenses;and
WHEREAS,RJS programs hold young offenders accountable by helping understand how
family,friends,victims,and the community are harmed by their actions,and seek to hold offenders
accountable for the harm they caused,to help them make better decisions in the future;and
WHEREAS,since its inception,Restorative Justice Services has provided restorative
justice alternatives to more than 3,200 young people who have committed chargeable offenses in
our community;and
WHEREAS,Restorative Justice Services has been partially grant-funded since its
inception in 2000,and the City has accepted grant funds on an annual basis from the Colorado
Division of Criminal Justice (DCJ)to support Restorative Justice Services programs;and
WHEREAS,a grant in the amount of $57,356 has been awarded to Restorative Justice
Services from DCJ’s Juvenile Diversion fund for the continued operation of Restorative Justice
Services;and
WHEREAS,the grant period is from July 1,2023,to June 30,2024,and no local match
from the City is required;and
WHEREAS,this grant helps fund Restorative Justice Services programs to assist youth
referred to the program from the 8th Judicial District Attorney’s Office;and
WHEREAS,this appropriation benefits the public health,safety and welfare of the
residents of Fort Collins and serves the public purpose of providing restorative justice alternatives
to youth in an effort to reduce recidivism and build a safer and healthier community;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 General
Fund and will not cause the total amount appropriated in the General 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 or donation;and
WHEREAS,the City Council wishes to designate the appropriation herein from the
Colorado Division of Criminal Justice 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
General Fund the sum of FIFTY-SEVEN THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED FIFTY-SIX
DOLLARS ($57,356)to be expended in the General Fund for various Restorative Justice
Programs.
Section 3.That the appropriation herein from the Colorado Division of Criminal
Justice 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 15th day of
August,2023,and to be presented for final passage on the 5th day of September,2023.
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City Clerk
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