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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 200, 2025-1- ORDINANCE NO. 200, 2025 OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS AMENDING THE CODE OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS TO RENAME THE CULTURAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT AS THE ARTS AND CULTURE DEPARTMENT AND RENAME THE CULTURAL SERVICES AND FACILITIES FUND AS THE ARTS AND CULTURE FUND A. The City’s Cultural Services Department exists within the City’s Community Services Service Area. The City seeks to rename the Cultural Services Department as the Arts and Culture Department to better reflect the work and mission of the Department. Amendments to the Code of the City of Fort Collins are required to effectuate this name change. Additionally, the new name of the Department will be used on the City’s new website, which will go live on December 10, 2025. B. The Cultural Services and Facilities Fund holds City funds to expend on cultural services and related facilities. To align with the name of the Arts and Culture Department, City staff has recommended renaming the Cultural Services and Facilities Fund as the Arts and Culture Fund. 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. Section 2-143 of the Code of the City of Fort Collins, as amended by Ordinance No. 091, 2025, and effective April 1, 2026, is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 2-143. - Arts and Culture Board . . . (b) The Board shall have the following functions: (1) To assist, advise and make recommendations to the Director of the Arts and Culture Department and City Council on arts and culture matters and regarding opportunities to promote awareness, understanding, advocacy, and appreciation for the value of arts and culture in the community. This may include providing assistance, advice and recommendations regarding the following programs, facilities and plans: . . . -2- (4) To review proposals for funding from the Cultural Development and Programming Account and the Tourism Programming Account, as requested by the Director of the Arts and Culture Department; (5) To advise and make recommendations to the Arts and Culture Department and the City Council regarding works of art funded by or donated to the Art in Public Places program, as required in Chapter 23, Article XII of the City Code, and following the established and published Art in Public Places Guidelines, as defined in Section 23-302. Section 2. Section 2-145 of the Code of the City of Fort Collins is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 2-145. Cultural Resources Board. (a) The City shall have a Cultural Resources Board, hereafter referred to in this Section as the "Board." The Board shall consist of seven (7) members. (b) The Board shall have the following functions: (1) To advise and make recommendations to the Director the Arts and Culture Department and the City Council as to rules, regulations, policies, administrative and budgetary matters pertaining to the Arts and Culture Department's programs, services and facilities and any other cultural facility constructed or operated by the City; (2) To review proposals for funding from the Cultural Development and Programming Account and the Tourism Programming Account, fol lowing established and published guidelines, and to submit recommendations regarding such proposals to the City Council to be approved by the City Council by resolution; (3) To advise and make recommendations to the City Manager regarding any proposed revisions to the guidelines used by the Cultural Resources Board to make the funding recommendations referred to in Paragraph (2) above; and (4) To assist, advise and make recommendations to the Director of the Arts and Culture Department and the City Council on arts and culture related matters and regarding opportunities to promote awareness, understanding, and appreciation for, the value of cultural resources in the community. (c) All terms of members of the Board shall terminate April 1, 2026. Section 3. Section 2-145 of the Code of the City of Fort Collins will be repealed in its entirety on April 1, 2026, pursuant to Section 4 of Ordinance No. 091, 2025, of the City of Fort Collins. Nothing in this Ordinance is intended to impact such repeal. -3- Section 4. Section 8-76 of the Code of the City of Fort Collins is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 8-76. Arts and Culture fund. There is hereby created a fund to account for arts and cultural activities known as the Arts and Culture Fund. Revenues for the fund shall include user fees and receipts for cultural activities as well as operating transfers from other funds. Expenditures shall be made for approved purposes in connection with the arts, cultural services and related facilities of the City. Section 5. Section 23-303(c) of the Code of the City of Fort Collins is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 23-303. Accounting methods. . . . (c) Contributions to APP for each Utility will be kept and spent in such Utility's own fund, with the exception of maintenance, administration, repair and display costs. Each Utility fund will pay its share of maintenance, administration, repair and display costs annually to the APP program cost center in the Arts and Culture Fund. Monies credited to such Utility funds for APP shall be expended only for the acquisition or lease of works of art that provide a betterment to such utility or that are otherwise determined by the City Council to be for a specific utility purpose that is beneficial to the rate payers of such Utility. Section 6. Section 23-307 of the Code of the City of Fort Collins is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 23-307. Administration. The Director of the Arts and Culture Department shall administer the provisions of this Article in a manner consistent with the APP Guidelines. The guidelines shall provide for the selection of works of art; the placement and presentation of works of art; the maintenance, repair and care of works of art; the payment for works of art; the acceptance of donations of works of art; and such other matters as the Director deems necessary and appropriate. -4- Introduced, considered favorably on first reading on December 2, 2025, and approved on second reading for final passage on December 16, 2025. ______________________________ Mayor ATTEST: ______________________________ City Clerk Effective Date: December 26, 2025 Approving Attorney: Ted Hewitt Exhibit: None