HomeMy WebLinkAbout126 - 10/20/2015 - APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED GRANT REVENUE INTO THE STORM DRAINAGE FUND FOR THE FLOOD WARNING SYSTEM ORDINANCE NO. 126, 2015
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED GRANT REVENUE
INTO THE STORM DRAINAGE FUND FOR THE
FLOOD WARNING SYSTEM ENHANCEMENTS PROJECT
WHEREAS, in 2014, the State of Colorado Department of Homeland Security—Office of
Emergency Management (DHSEM) announced that the Federal Emergency Management
Agency (FEMA) was providing funding for flood mitigation activities and infrastructure to
Colorado to distribute to communities subjected to flooding in the September 2013 flood event;
and
WHEREAS, the City submitted a grant proposal of $142,900 (full project .amount
including City matching funds) to this Hazard Mitigation Grant Program for Flood Warning
System (FWS) enhancements, including new data management software, new communications
hardware (at its radio repeater site at both its base stations), and for the installations of new gage,
sensor and telemetry infrastructure at three new gaging sites (the "Project"); and
WHEREAS, in response to the above proposal, the Storm Drainage Fund has received a
grant from DHSEM with the grant funding to be reimbursed by FEMA in the amount of
$107,175 (75%) and from DHSEM in the amouni of$17,862 (12.5%) to be used for the Project;
and
WHEREAS, this Ordinance appropriates the grant funding of$125,037; and
WHEREAS, the City's matching funds of $17,863 (12.5%) will come from existing
appropriations; and
WHEREAS, Article V, Section 9, of the Charter of the City of Fort Collins permits the
City Council to make supplemental appropriations by ordinance at any time during the fiscal
year, provided that the total amount of such supplemental appropriations, in combination with all
previous appropriations for that fiscal year, does not exceed the current estimate of actual and
anticipated revenues to be received during the fiscal year; and
WHEREAS, City staff have determined that the appropriation of the revenue as described
herein will not cause the total amount appropriated in the Storm Drainage Fund to exceed the
current estimate of actual and anticipated revenues to be received in that fund during any fiscal
year.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
FORT COLLINS that there is hereby appropriated for expenditure from unanticipated grant
revenue in the Storm Drainage Fund the sum of ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE
THOUSAND THIRTY-SEVEN DOLLARS ($125,037) for the Project.
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Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 6th day of
October, A.D. 2015, and to be presented for final passage on the 20th day of October, A.D. 2015.
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Mayor
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City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading on the 20th day of October, A.D. 2015.
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