HomeMy WebLinkAbout165 - 12/19/2023 - APPROPRIATING PRIOR YEAR RESERVES AND NEW PHILANTHROPIC REVENUE RECEIVED THROUGH CITY GIVE FOR VARIOORDINANCE NO.165,2023
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING PRIOR YEAR RESERVES AND NEW PHILANTHROPIC
REVENUE RECEIVED THROUGH CITY GIVE FOR VARIOUS PROGRAMS
AND SERVICES AS DESIGNATED BY THE DONORS
WHEREAS,the City received in 2022 one donation of $150 and in 2023 ten individual
donations totaling $11,819 to be used for various City programs and services,which donations are
each $5,000 or less;and
WHEREAS,the donors have directed these donations to be used solely by the City for
certain designated uses;and
WHEREAS,as acknowledged by Section 2.5 of 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 intended by the donor to be benefited
and Section 52.2.D.of the City Give Policy similarly authorizes the City Manager to accept
donations of more than $5,000 up to $100,000;and
WHEREAS,as so authorized,the City Give Director and City Manager have accepted for
the benefited City service areas,as applicable,the donations to be appropriated in this Ordinance
to be used solely as directed by each donor;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,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
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,the City Manager has recommended the appropriations described in Sections
2 and 3 of this Ordinance and determined that the amount of each of these appropriations is
available and previously unappropriated from the funds named in Sections 2 and 3 and will not
cause the total amount appropriated in each such fund to exceed the current estimate of actual and
anticipated revenues to be received in those funds 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 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 appropriation herein for various City
Give donations as an appropriation that shall lapse at the end of this fiscal year;and.
WHEREAS,these appropriations will serve the public purpose of providing additional
revenue to each of the benefited service areas to aid them in accomplishing the public purposes for
which each service area is established thereby benefiting the public’s health,safety and welfare.
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 following funds these amounts
of philanthropic revenue held in prior year reserves to be expended as designated by the donors:
Recreation Fund I $150
Section 3.That there is hereby appropriated from the following funds these amounts
of philanthropic revenue received in 2023 to be expended as designated by the donors:
Cultural Services and Facilities Fund $1,500
General Fund $5,500
Transportation Services Fund $4,000
GolfFund $819
Section 4.That the appropriations herein for various City Give donations are hereby
designated,as authorized in Article V,Section 11 of the City Charter,as appropriations that shall
lapse at the end of this fiscal year.
Introduced,considered favorably on first reading,and ordered published this 5th day of
December,2023,and to be presented for final passage on the 1
ATFEST:
City Clerk1 ~
Passed and adopted on final
AflEST:
City Clerk