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HomeMy WebLinkAbout084 - 12/24/1970 - APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF $147,525 OUT OF SURPLUS IN THE GENERAL FUND AND THE SUM OF $22,300 OUT OF S ORDINANCE NO. 7, 1970) BEING AN ORDINANCE APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF47,525.00 OUT OF SURPLUS IN THE GENERAL FUND AND THE SUM OF $22,300.00 OUT OF SURPLUS IN THE EQUIPMENT FUND TO BE EXPENDED IN THE FISCAL. YEAR 1970 AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY WHEREAS, it has been necessary to make certain expenditures for the proper operation of the City government during the year 1970 for which funds were not budgeted; and WHEREAS, Section 15 of Article V of the City Charter provides that at the expiration of eight (8) months of the budget year or thereafter within the budget year, if the actual revenue realized exceeds the budget estimates, the Council may, by ordinance, appropriate the excess to any purpose recommended by the City Manager for expenditure during the budget year; and WHEREAS, the actual revenue realized by the City exceeds the budget estimates in amounts more than the amounts required to be appropriatedby this ordinance out of the General Fund and out of the Equipment Fund; and WHEREAS, the City Manager has recommended that the sum of $147,525.00 be appropriated out of the General Fund to meet the following expenditures in the several departments of the City as follows: Finance $ 4,500.00 City Attorney 425.00 Municipal Court 5,850.00 Police Department 69,650.00 Fire Department 4,300.00 Sanitary Land Fill 700.00 Engineering 5,200.00 Streets 1,400.00 Traffic and Street Lights 3,500.00 Parks 13,000.00 Recreation 3,900.00 Museum 500.00 Swimming Pool 4,500.00 Grandview Cemetery 2,600.00 Roselawn Cemetery 500.00 Transfer to Capital Improvements 27,000.00 and WHEREAS, the City Manager has further recommended that there be appropriated out of the Equipment Fund for equipment that has been purchased the sum of $22,300.00. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS: Section 1. .That there is hereby appropriated to be expended in the fiscal year 1970 the respective sums of $147,525.00 and $22,300.00. Section 2. Said sums are hereby appropriated out of surplus, respectively, in the General Fund and in the Equipment Fund, which said sums so appropriated shall be expended as hereinabove provided. Section 3. In the opinion of the City Council an emergency exists for the actual preservation of the public peace, health, safety and property in that it is necessary to appropriate said funds and to make .said expenditures during the fiscal year 1970; and this ordinance shall take effect upon its passage under and by virtue of the authority contained in Sections 6 and 7 of Article II of the Charter of the City of Fort Collins. Introduced, read at length and adopted by the unanimous vote of all members of the City of Fort Collins City Council at a regular meeting h id this 24th day of December, A. D. 1970. ATTEST: . / %�• Q 1 Ma o titi � �� City Clerk