HomeMy WebLinkAbout044 - 04/02/2024 - Appropriating Prior Year Reserves Received By City Give for Fort Collins Police Services for the SafORDINANCE NO.044,2024
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING PRIOR YEAR RESERVES RECEIVED
BY CITY GIVE FOR FORT COLLINS POLICE SERVICES
FOR THE SAFE FUTURES INITIATIVE
A.Like many law enforcement agencies across the nation,Fort Collins Police
Services (“FCPS”)is adopting new industry practices for victim-centered services by
hiring civilian professionals for forensics,fraud,and criminal investigations.
B.Traditionally served by uniformed police officers,this new approach offers
a proactive,comprehensive victim-centered approach to public safety and leverages
candidates from accounting,criminal justice,and forensic disciplines,who desire to serve
their community.
C.The Fort Collins Safe Futures Fund is a designated charitable fund to
support the operational needs for innovative,victim-centered police services to address
the impact crime has on victims,their families,and witnesses;leverage technology-based
skilled investigative resources;assist in the identification of victims of human trafficking;
and prevent the sexual exploitation of the most vulnerable members of our community.
D.The purpose of this item is to request appropriation of $80,000.00 in
philanthropic revenue received by City Give for Fort Collins Police Services for the Safe
Futures Initiative.
E.The charitable support represents a range of generous local giving:$50,000
from one donor,and $30,000 from the second donor,with all gifts designated for the sole
purpose of the Safe Futures Initiative.
F.This appropriation benefits public health,safety and welfare of the citizens
of Fort Collins and serves a public purpose of protecting our most vulnerable population
of citizens by investigating crimes and holding perpetrators of those crimes accountable.
G.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.
H.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.
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
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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.
J.The City Council wishes to designate the appropriation herein for Safe
Futurers Initiative donation as an appropriation that shall not lapse until the earlier of the
expiration of the grant or donation or the City’s expenditure of all funds received from
such grant or donation.
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 as follows:
Section 1.There is hereby appropriated from prior year reserves in the General
Fund the sum of EIGHTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($80,000)to be expended in the
General Fund for the Safe Futures Initiative.
Section 2.The appropriation herein for The Safe Futures Initiative 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 donation or the City’s expenditure of all funds received from
such grant or donation.
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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ATTEST.
Chief Deputy City Clerk
Effective Date:April 12,2024
Approving Attorney:Dawn Downs