HomeMy WebLinkAbout081 - 07/03/2018 - REAPPROPRIATING FUNDS PREVIOUSLY APPROPRIATED IN 2017 BUT NOT EXPENDED AND NOT ENCUMBERED IN 2017, A ORDINANCE NO. 081, 2018
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
REAPPROPRIATING FUNDS PREVIOUSLY APPROPRIATED IN 2017
BUT NOT EXPENDED AND NOT ENCUMBERED IN 2017, APPROPRIATING
PRIOR YEAR RESERVES IN THE GENERAL FUND AND APPROPRIATING
UNANTICIPATED REVENUE IN THE GENERAL FUND FOR
THE FORT COLLINS POLICE SERVICES COMBINED REGIONAL INFORMATION
SYSTEMS PROJECT
WHEREAS, since 2003, Fort Collins Police Services ("FCPS") and the Larimer County
Sheriff's Office ("Sheriff's Office") have cooperated in utilizing a public safety software system
for computer aided dispatch, a records management system, and mobile applications, known as
the Consolidated Regional Information Systems Project("CRISP") which has been relied upon by
other public safety agencies in Larimer County; and
WHEREAS, the current software system needs replacement, and the City of Loveland has
joined FCPS and the Sheriff's Office as a CRISP partner in procuring a new software solution
(collectively, the "Partners"); and
WHEREAS, the Partners intend to enter into an intergovernmental agreement for the
purchase of a software solution from Tritech Software Systems, whereby the Partners will share
equally in the costs of the system, subject to limited exceptions for agency-specific components;
and
WHEREAS, as the purchasing agent for the system,the City of Fort Collins will be entitled
to reimbursement from the Partners, and will receive monetary contributions to offset costs from
Poudre Fire Authority,Wellington Fire Department, Poudre Valley Health Care, Inc. d/b/a Poudre
Valley Hospital, and the Larimer Emergency Telephone Authority in the estimated amount of
$1,690,000; and
WHEREAS, Article V, Section 11 of the City Charter requires that all appropriations
unexpended or unencumbered at the end of the fiscal year lapse to the applicable general or special
fund, except that appropriations for capital projects and federal or state grants do not lapse until
the completion of the capital project or until the expiration of the federal or state grant; and
WHEREAS, Article V, Section 9 of the City Charter permits the City Council to
appropriate 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, City staff.have determined that the amounts to be appropriated as described
herein are available and currently unappropriated; and
WHEREAS, it is in the best interests of the City and its residents to re-appropriate funds
for the expenditures below, in furtherance of these expenditures authorized in 2017 for which such
appropriated funds were not expended and not encumbered during 2017.
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WHEREAS, Article V, Section 9, of the City Charter 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, 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 to be received in that fund during any fiscal year; and
WHEREAS, this appropriation benefits public health, safety and welfare of the citizens of
Fort Collins and serves the public purpose of procuring'a software solution that will aid in the
efficient provision of public safety services throughout the City.
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.
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Section 2. That there is hereby appropriated for expenditure from prior year reserves
in the General Fund the sum of THREE MILLION FOUR HUNDRED THIRTY THOUSAND
DOLLARS ($3030,000) for the Fort Collins CRISP Project.
Section 3. That there is hereby appropriated for expenditure from unanticipated
revenue in the General Fund the sum of ONE MILLION SIX HUNDRED NINETY THOUSAND
DOLLARS ($1,690,000) for the Fort Collins CRISP Project.
Section 4. That there is hereby appropriated for expenditure from prior year reserves
in the General Fund the sum of TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY-EIGHT THOUSAND DOLLARS
($288,000) for the Fort Collins;CRISP Project.
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Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 19th day of
June, A.D. 2018, and to be presented for final passa e r ul , A.D. 2018.
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Passed and adopted on final reading on the 3rd day of July, A.D. 2018.
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