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Council considers moving unclaimed tourism dollars to outdoor-recreation grant management
Summary
Council debated reallocating unspent LARP (tourism) awards — including a possibly forfeited $75,000 award and $45,000 freed in 2026 — into the outdoor-recreation bucket to support PPORA’s management of a $2.5M state grant; some members sought to preserve arts-and-culture allocations and requested the LARP committee’s recommendation be followed.
Colorado Springs — Council members discussed a proposal to move unallocated or forfeited tourism awards (LARP funds) from the arts-and-culture sector into outdoor recreation to help PPORA manage a new $2.5 million state grant for regional outdoor recreation (Ring the Peak).
President Carriverson said one 2025 award for $75,000 remains unexecuted because the grantee had not cleared a prior city invoice; if the invoice is not paid by the end of the week, that $75,000 would be available for reallocation. Separately, members identified $30,000 and $15,000 in 2026 arts-and-culture funds that could be reallocated because the applicant either withdrew or was not compliant in the LARP process, producing a potential additional $45,000.
Carriverson proposed using the funds to add up to $75,000 to the outdoor-recreation bucket to support PPORA’s administrative capacity to implement the $2.5M grant. Some council members raised process and transparency concerns: Councilman Donaldson asked whether the normal LARP protocol (reassigning funds within the same sector or awarding to the next-ranked application) should apply rather than shifting money between sector buckets.
Administration staff said the LARP process typically keeps unclaimed funds in a sector to be awarded by that sector’s rubric, but because council had not yet adopted the 2026 appropriation, council could direct bucket-level changes prior to appropriation. Several councilmembers asked for the LARP memo and committee materials to be circulated to the full council; others said moving funds between buckets was not unusual and had precedent in prior committee actions.
Next steps: administration will circulate the LARP memo and updated spreadsheet and, if council wants a reallocation after the Friday invoice deadline, prepare an agenda action. Council left the option open to move the 2025 $75,000 if not claimed and to move $45,000 in 2026 arts-and-culture funds to outdoor recreation as a contingency, with LARP committee review and formal appropriation procedures to follow.
