HomeMy WebLinkAbout152 - 12/05/2029 - APPROPRIATING PHILANTHROPIC REVENUE RECEIVED BY CITY GIVE FOR THE 9/11 MEMORIAL, PARK PLANNING AND DORDINANCE NO.152,2023
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING PHILANTHROPIC REVENUE RECEIVED BY CITY GIVE
FOR THE 9/11 MEMORIAL,PARK PLANNING AND DESIGN FOR THE
CONSTRUCTION OF THE 9/11 MEMORIAL AT SPRING PARK
WHEREAS,the City of Fort Collins and Poudre Fire Authority have collaborated to
construct a memorial to the events of September 11,2001,at Spring Creek Park,adjacent to Poudre
Fire Authority Station 3 (the “Memorial”);and
WHEREAS,the Memorial will serve as the permanent home for a Steel World Trade
Center I-beam;and
WHEREAS,the Memorial will honor firefighters,emergency medical technicians,law
enforcement officers,and nearly 3,000 others who lost their lives on September 11,2011;and
WHEREAS,the City has received in 2023 $19,870.70 in donations for the park planning
and design for the construction of the Memorial and in 2022 received a $5,000 donation for such
planning and design;and
WHEREAS,as acknowledged by Section 2.5 for the City’s Fiscal Management Policy 2 -
Revenue approved by City Council,the City Manager has adopted the City Give Financial
Governance Policy to provide for the responsible and efficient management of charitable donations
to the City (the “City Give Policy”);and
WHEREAS,Section 52.2.C.of the City Give Policy authorizes the City Give Director to
accept donations of $5,000 or less for the City service area the donor intends to benefit;and
WHEREAS,as so authorized,the City Give Director has accepted for the City the
donations to be appropriated in this Ordinance to be used solely as directed by each donor for the
park planning and design for the construction of the Memorial;and
WHEREAS,this appropriation benefits the public health,safety and welfare of the
residents of Fort Collins and serves the public purpose of facilitating the construction of a public
memorial to the tragic events of September 11,2001;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,does not exceed the current
estimate of actual and anticipated revenues and all other funds to be received during the fiscal year;
and
WHEREAS,Article V,Section 9 of the City Charter permits the City Council,upon the
recommendation of the City Manager,to make supplemental appropriations by ordinance at any
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time during the fiscal year of such funds for expenditure as may be available from reserves
accumulated in prior years,notwithstanding that such reserves were not previously appropriated;
and
WHEREAS,the City Manager has recommended the appropriation described in Section 3
of this Ordinance and determined that the amount of this appropriation is available and previously
unappropriated in the fund named in Section 3 and will not cause the total amount appropriated in
such fund to exceed the current estimate of actual and anticipated revenues to be received in that
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 from a federal,state or private grant or
donation,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 donation or the City’s expenditure of all funds received from such grant or donation;and
WHEREAS,the City Council wishes to designate the appropriations herein for various
City Give donations for the Memorial as appropriations that shall not lapse until the earlier of the
expiration of the donations or the City’s expenditure of all funds received from such or donations.
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 the prior year reserves in the Capital
Projects Fund the FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($5,000)private donation received by City Give
in 2022,to be expended for the park planning and design for the construction of the Memorial as
described in the Agenda Item Summary for this Ordinance.
Section 3.That there is hereby appropriated from the Capital Projects Fund
NINETEEN THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED SEVENTY AND 70/100 DOLLARS
($19,870.70)in private donations received by City Give in 2023,to be expended for the park
planning and design for the construction of the Memorial as described in the Agenda Item
Summary for this Ordinance.
Section 4.That these appropriations for the Memorial are hereby designated,as
authorized in Article V,Section 11 of the City Charter,as appropriations that shall not lapse at the
end of this fiscal year but continue until the earlier of the expiration of the donations or the City’s
expenditure of all funds received from such donations.
Introduced,considered favorably on first reading and ordered published this 21st day of
November,2023,and to be presented for final passage on
AEJEEST:
City
Passed and adopted
ATTEST:
of December,
City