HomeMy WebLinkAbout043 - 04/02/2024 - Appropriating Prior Years Reserves Received in the General Fund By City Give for Fort Collins PoliceORDINANCE NO.043,2024
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING PRIOR YEAR RESERVES RECEIVED IN THE
GENERAL FUND BY CITY GIVE FOR FORT COLLINS POLICE
SERVICES FOR THE 2024 POLICE LEADERS’SUMMIT
A.Fort Collins Police Services is honored to host the inaugural Police
Leadership Summit in 2024 in a three-day event that will bring law enforcement leaders
together from across the country to cast a vision for the future of community policing.
B.Attendees at the Police Leadership Summit will represent municipalities,
federal law agencies,sheriffs,representatives from the Police Executive Research
Forum,and law enforcement experts who have administered Consent Decrees
(agreements between cities and Federal Government to fix areas of concern).
C.The Fort Collins-based summit will address topics such as community
policing,recruiting and retention,innovations in technology,the science behind crime
prevention,and homelessness response.
D.The Police Leadership Summit ensures a platform for shared best practices,
round table discussions,and for industry partners to showcase systems and tools vital for
effective and responsible policing in the 21st century.
E.City Give received two donations totaling $30,000 in philanthropic revenue
to be used for Fort Collins Police Services for the 2024 Police Leaders’Summit as
designated by the donors.
F.One donor gift was for $25,000 and the second gift was for $5,000.
G.The purpose of this item is to appropriate the $30,000 of supplemental
revenue to enhance the local investment in Fort Collins Police Services’national
leadership.
H.This appropriation benefits the public health,safety,and welfare of the
citizens of Fort Collins and serves the public purpose of collaborating with agencies
across the country to discuss and develop innovative ideas to support our police
department and enhance community safety;and
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 from such revenues and funds for expenditure as may
be available from reserves accumulated in prior years,notwithstanding that such reserves
were not previously appropriated.
J.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
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to exceed the current estimate of actual and anticipated revenues and all other funds to
be received in this Fund during this fiscal year.
In light of the foregoing recitals,which the Council hereby makes and adopts as
determinations and findings,BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
FORT COLLINS that there is hereby appropriated from prior year reserves in the General
Fund the sum of THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($30,000)to be expended in the
General Fund for the 2024 Police Leaders’Summit.
Introduced,considered favorably on first reading on March 19,2024,and approved
on second reading for final passage on April 2,2024
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Chief Deputy City Clerk
Effective Date:April 12,2024
Approving Attorney:Dawn Downs