Fort Collins City Council Meeting 3/21/23

Proclaiming March 2023 as Women's History Month

First Reading of Ordinance No. 042, 2023, Making Supplemental Appropriations from Lease Financing Proceeds and Appropriating Prior Year Reserves for the Purchase of Vacant Land at the Former Hughes Stadium Site.

A. First Reading of Ordinance No. 044, 2023, Amending Chapter 7 of the Code of the City of Fort Collins Relating to the Conduct of the City’s Regular Municipal Election. B. First Reading of Ordinance No. 045, 2023, Amending Chapter 7 of the Code of the City of Fort Collins Relating to Candidacy in a Municipal Election. C. First Reading of Ordinance No. 046, 2023, Amending Chapter 7 of the Code of the City of Fort Collins Relating to Financial Disclosure Requirements. The purpose of this item is to consider adopting changes to City Code required by the approval of Fort Collins voters to move the City’s regular municipal election from April to November in odd-numbered years. Specific changes proposed include: clarifying election administration provisions applying to City run elections and the applicability of State law to coordinated elections, establishing that regular municipal elections will be coordinated with the County unless the Council provides otherwise, adapting deadlines for filing for office to align with the requirements of the Uniform Election Code, and updating the timing for filing financial disclosures to align with the timing of regular municipal elections.