HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 197, 2025-1-
ORDINANCE NO. 197, 2025
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED PHILANTHROPIC
REVENUE RECEIVED THROUGH CITY GIVE
A. The City has received generous donations in 2025 through its City Give
program, both large and modest, as philanthropic gifts to the public and the City programs
and activities to serve the community.
B. The appropriation of these funds benefits the public health, safety, and
welfare of the residents of Fort Collins and serves the public purpose of supporting
programs or capital expenses throughout the City, including, but not limited to, cultural
services, golf, forestry, and youth sports.
C. Article V, Section 9 of the City Charter permits the City Council, upon
recommendation of the City Manager, to make a supplemental appropriation by ordinance
at any time during the fiscal year, provided that the total amount of such supplemental
appropriation, in combination with all previous appropriations for that fiscal year, do not
exceed the current estimate of actual and anticipated revenues and all other funds to be
received during the fiscal year.
D. The City Manager has recommended the appropriations described in
Section 1 of this Ordinance and determined that the amount of each of these
appropriations are available and previously unappropriated from the respective funds
named in Section 1 will not cause the total amount appropriated in each such fund to
exceed the current estimate of actual and anticipated revenues to be received in those
funds during this fiscal year.
E. Article V, Section 11 of the City Charter authorizes the City Council to
designate in the ordinance when appropriating funds, a federal, state or private grant 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 expiratio n of the donation or the
City’s expenditure of all funds received from such donation.
F. The City Council wishes to designate the appropriation in the Light and
Power Fund, which is for the Payment Assistance Fund, and the appropriation in the Golf
Fund, which is for the Youth Golf Scholarship Fund, as appropriations that shall not lapse
until the earlier of the expiration of the donation or the City’s expenditure of all funds
received from such 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 the following funds these amounts
of philanthropic revenue received in 2025 to be expended as designated by the donors in
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support of the various City programs and services as described in the Agenda Item
Summary.
Cultural Services Fund $ 696.00
General Fund $ 16,000.00
Recreation Fund $ 892.67
Golf Fund $ 7,160.00
Light & Power Fund $ 275.00
Section 2. The appropriations in Section 1 in the Light and Power Fund, which
is for the Payment Assistance Fund, and the Golf Fund, which is for the Youth Golf
Scholarship Fund, are hereby designated, as authorized in Article V, Section 11 of the
City Charter, as appropriations that shall not lapse at the end of this fiscal year but until
the earlier of the expiration of the donation or the City’s expenditure of all funds received
from such donation.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading on December 2, 2025, and
approved on second reading for final passage on December 16, 2025.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Clerk
Effective Date: December 26, 2025
Approving Attorney: Dianne Criswell
Exhibit: None