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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 11/16/2010 - RESOLUTION 2010-070 ADOPTING THE CITY'S 2011 LEGIS DATE: November 16, 2010 AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY STAFF: Tess Heffernan FORT COLLINSCOUNCIL Resolution 2010-070 Adopting the City's 2011 Legislative Policy Agenda. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Each year the Legislative Review Committee develops a legislative agenda to assist in the analysis of pending legislation. The Legislative Policy Agenda is used as a guide by Councilmembers and staff to determine positions on pending legislation and as a general reference for state legislators and congressional delegation. BACKGROUND / DISCUSSION The Legislative Policy Agenda includes policies on issues that affect the quality of life and governance of the community. It is used as a guide by Council and staff to determine positions on pending legislation, and as a general reference for state legislators and congressional delegation. The 2011 Agenda was developed with input from City staff and review by the Legislative Review Committee. It contains policy statements on a wide variety of topics that cover the following areas: • Affordable Housing • Air Quality • Cable Television Franchise • Climate and Environmental Protection • Cultural Services • Finance, Investments and Privatization • Fire Protection • Hazardous Materials Management • Home Rule • Human Resources • Natural Areas and Open Lands • Parks and Recreation • Planning and Land Use • Public Safety • Recycling and Solid Waste • Risk Management • Sovereign and Governmental Immunity • Transportation • Utility Services: Energy, Water Supply and Quality The proposed 2011 Legislative Policy Agenda is attached to the Resolution as Exhibit A. FINANCIAL / ECONOMIC IMPACTS The Legislative Policy Agenda contains a number of policies that speak to economic impacts. The Finance section (page 7)contains several statements that address the need to protect the City's revenue base. It also calls for support for legislation"that promotes sustainable economic development." Other policies that support sound fiscal practices are imbedded throughout the document. November 16, 2010 -2- ITEM 19 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS Several sections of the Legislative Policy Agenda directly address environmental impacts and support for legislation that will help the City forward its environmental goals. These include statements under the headings of Air Quality (page 4), Climate and Environmental Protection (page 6), Natural Areas and Open Lands (page 10), Recycling and Solid Waste (page 13), Energy(page 16) and Water Supply and Quality (page 17). STAFF RECOMMENDATION Staff recommends adoption of the Resolution. BOARD / COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION The Legislative Review Committee has reviewed and approved the draft 2011 Legislative Policy Agenda. RESOLUTION 2010-070 OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS ADOPTING THE CITY'S 2011 LEGISLATIVE POLICY AGENDA WHEREAS, state and federal legislation may impact the citizens of Fort Collins, affecting their quality of life; and WHEREAS, such state and federal legislation may also influence the operations of municipal governments, including the City; and WHEREAS, the City has an interest in providing input on proposed legislation; and WHEREAS, Councilmembers and staff are asked to state the City's policy position on legislation; and WHEREAS, members of the Legislative Review Committee desire to be more effective in their reaction to state and federal legislation. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS as follows: Section 1. That the policy statements contained in the attached 2011 Legislative Policy Agenda accurately reflect the City's policies on these issues. Section 2. That the City Council hereby adopts the 2011 Legislative Policy Agenda attached hereto as Exhibit "A'.' and incorporated herein by this reference. Passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the Council of the City of Fort Collins this 16th day of November, A.D. 2010. Mayor ATTEST: Chief Deputy City Clerk EXHIBIT A City of Fort Collins LEGISLATIVE POLICY AGENDA 2011 Adopted November 16, 2010 TABLE OF CONTENTS TOPIC PAGE INTRODUCTION 3 FORT COLLINS LEGISLATIVE REVIEW COMMITTEE 3 LEGISLATIVE POLICY STATEMENTS 4 AFFORDABLE HOUSING 4 AIR QUALITY 4 CABLE TELEVISION FRANCHISE 5 CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 6 CULTURAL SERVICES 6 FINANCE 7 INVESTMENTS 7 PRIVATIZATION 8 FIRE PROTECTION 8 HAZARDOUS MATERIALS MANAGEMENT 9 HOME RULE 9 HUMAN RESOURCES 10 NATURAL AREAS AND OPEN LANDS 10 PARKS AND RECREATION 1 1 PLANNING AND LAND USE 11 PUBLIC SAFETY 12 RECYCLING AND SOLID WASTE 13 RISK MANAGEMENT 14 SOVEREIGN AND GOVERNMENTAL IMMUNITY 14 TRANSPORTATION 15 UTILITY SERVICES 16 ENERGY 16 WATER SUPPLY AND QUALITY 17 CITY LEGISLATIVE STAFF 18 2 INTRODUCTION Fort Collins is a community of 137,000 residents located at the foot of the Rocky Mountains along Colorado's Front Range. Incorporated in 1873, the City has grown to become the commercial, educational and cultural hub of northern Colorado. The City adopted a home rule charter in 1954 and operates under a Council-Manager form of government. The 2011 City of Fort Collins Legislative Policy Agenda identifies issues of importance to the City of Fort Collins. The Agenda expresses policies and positions on issues that affect the quality of life and the governance of our community. We offer this Agenda to our Legislators as a guideline when considering legislation that impacts Fort Collins. We encourage Legislators to contact Fort Collins City Council Members and our Legislative Policy Manager should they have any questions regarding our policy positions. CITY OF FORT COLLINS LEGISLATIVE REVIEW COMMITTEE The Legislative Review Committee (LRC) is a representative group of Council members that reviews and reacts to proposed legislation on behalf of City Council and the City. In taking a position on particular bills, the LRC interprets and applies the various policies that are included in the Legislative Policy Agenda. If a bill is governed by two or more competing policies, then the LRC may decide how to balance those policies in taking a position. If a bill falls outside of the Legislative Policy Agenda, the LRC refers the bill to the full Council for consideration before a position is taken on behalf of the City. Council Members presently serving on the Legislative Review Committee are: • Mayor Doug Hutchinson, Chair • Mayor Pro Tern Kelly Ohlson • Council Member Lisa Poppaw Staff liaisons support the LRC by contributing expertise in various areas of municipal service. The City works closely with the Colorado Municipal.League on many legislative items. 3 LEGISLATIVE POLICY STATEMENTS AFFORDABLE HOUSING The City of Fort Collins supports policy and funding mechanisms that help the City develop and maintain affordable housing for our community's lowest income families. Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements: 1. Support legislation that maintains or enhances current levels of funding for affordable housing throughout Colorado. 2. Oppose legislation that limits local ability to regulate, manage or generate alternative sources of funding for affordable housing, including public-private partnerships. 3. Support legislation that protects the rights of low-income and/or disabled residents in tenant-landlord disputes, especially as it relates to safety issues. AIR QUALITY The City's Air Quality Plan establishes a strong overall goal to "continually improve Fort Collins air quality as the city grows." Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements: 1. Support legislation and regulations adopting programs and policies that improve public health and air quality. 2. Support legislation that maintains or increases the stringency of air quality standards. 3. Oppose legislation that restricts local government authority to improve air quality beyond minimum State or Federal requirements. 4. Support legislation that promotes regional improvement of air quality, recognizing that air pollution does not follow jurisdictional boundaries. 5. Support legislation to assure that Federal, State and County agencies have adequate authority and resources (funding and personnel) to enforce air quality regulations. 6. Support legislation that removes barriers and promotes voluntary actions to reduce air pollution. 4 7. Support legislation and regulations that reduce vehicle emissions by: Using the price mechanisms of the free market to shift citizen and business travel behavior toward actions that reduce vehicle emissions and vehicle miles of travel, including removing hidden cost subsidies to motor vehicle users Employing economic incentives and disincentives and other market approaches - Encouraging behavior changes, such as limiting unnecessary idling of vehicles 8. Support legislation and regulations that provide authority for local governments to implement vehicle emissions reductions programs. 9. Support legislation and regulations that make tailpipe emissions and fuel economy standards more stringent for all vehicles. 10. Support programs and policies that promote advanced low emission vehicle technology; and encourage or promote alternative fuels such as biodiesel, cellulosic ethanol, hydrogen and compressed natural gas. 11. Support legislation and regulations that reduce residential wood smoke emissions in order to achieve compliance with air quality standards. 12. Support legislation that helps to reduce fossil fuel consumption in the transportation and building sector. CABLE TELEVISION FRANCHISE The City of Fort Collins encourages a competitive, open market for cable services in order to ensure the public has access to a variety of cable television programming at the lowest cost possible. Therefore, the City supports the following policy statement: 1. Support legislation that maintains and enhances local franchising authority. This helps ensure local governments' ability to negotiate, in the public interest, for cable channel space, institutional networks and public education and government programming. 5 CLINTIATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION The City of Fort Collins encourages local, state and national efforts to protect and enhance our environment. Additionally, the City has a policy goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 20%below 2005 levels by 2020 and 80%below 2005 levels by 2050. Therefore the City supports the following policy statements: 1. Support legislation and regulation that reduce Fort Collins' vulnerability to climate change impacts. 2. Support legislation that establishes reduction targets for greenhouse gas emissions. 3. Support legislation that establishes market-based mechanisms to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including providing incentives to business and citizens to reduce emissions and for green building and sustainable design. 4. Support legislation and regulations to promote pollution prevention. 5. Support the Colorado self-audit law. CULTURAL SERVICES The City recognizes that art and culture are vitally important to the quality of life in our community and is committed to providing the citizens of Fort Collins with excellent cultural services. Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements: 1. Support funding for cultural services for the education, entertainment and enrichment of the community. 2. Support legislation that facilitates the creation, performance and presentation of the arts. 3. Support legislation that protects and preserves our cultural heritage. 6 FINANCE As a municipality, the City of Fort Collins faces many complex financial issues. Strong fiscal planning, prudent debt management and preservation of the City's revenue base are vital in maintaining and improving the City's financial health. Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements: 1. Support legislation that maintains or expands municipal authority to establish alternative funding mechanisms, including financing tools such as public improvement fees (PIF) and certificates of participation (COP). 2. Support tax increment financing as a tool to support Downtown Development Authorities and Urban Renewal Authorities, taking into consideration the land use impacts of such legislation(e.g., sprawl) and the compelling interests and concerns of other taxing entities. 3. Support legislation that promotes sustainable economic development. 4. Support increased funding and budgetary autonomy for Colorado State University and Front Range Community College. 5. Support legislation promoting the equitable treatment of sales and use taxes to residents and corporations residing or doing business in Colorado. The City strongly recommends that taxes be as broad-based as possible and that exemptions be limited. 6. Support federal legislation that recognizes the importance of sales and use tax to local, self-collecting municipalities and equitably distributes sales tax collections on e-commerce transactions. 7. Oppose legislation that reduces the City's revenue base (sales,use and property tax). INVESTMENTS The Fort Collins City Council has adopted investment polices to be used by the City. The policies are reviewed and update periodically to ensure the safety and quality of the portfolio to maintain liquidity and to maximize portfolio earnings. Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements: 1. Support legislation designed to protect, without unnecessarily restricting, the investments of government entities. 7 2. Support legislation that provides for adequate transparency of the City's investment activity. 3. Oppose any legislation that would require municipalities to participate in investments that do not meet the objectives set forth in the City's policies. 4. Oppose restrictions on the City's ability to adopt its own investment policies. PRIVATIZATION The City of Fort Collins utilizes outside contracts for procurement of many goods and services. This practice of privatization provides citizens with a balance of quality and cost efficiency. Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements: 1. Support legislation enabling provision of services through private enterprise in a manner that fosters cost effective, sustainable, quality services. 2. Support local control of the awarding of contracts and the accountability of local officials for those actions 3. Oppose mandates that increase the complexity and cost of services without improving those services. RRE PROTECTION The Fort Collins City Council recognizes the critical importance of maintaining a safe environment and.protecting the lives and property of the citizens of Fort Collins from fire. Therefore the City supports the following policy statements: 1. Support legislation adopting a State fire code, the code of choice being the 2006 International Fire Code, and allow municipalities to impose more restrictive standards. 2. Oppose legislation that limits local enforcement of the International Fire Code as adopted with local amendments, or imposes inspection requirements or prevents collection of permit or inspection fees as required by the local jurisdiction. 3. Support legislation that requires the installation of fire protection systems in structures to enhance life safety and property protection when appropriate. 8 4. Support legislation that strengthens the City's ability to prohibit the use and sale of fireworks and that allows counties and fire districts to prohibit and otherwise control fireworks. 5. Support legislation that promotes fire safety, education and prevention with the goal of reducing injury, loss of life and property damage. HAZARDOUS MATERIALS MANAGEMENT It is an important concern of the City to safeguard Fort Collins' health and environmental safety by reducing risks from the unauthorized release of hazardous materials or hazardous waste. Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements: 1. Support legislation that allows the City to continue controlling risks from hazardous materials use, storage and transportation through the Uniform Building and Fire Codes and related local amendments. 2. Oppose legislation that restricts the City's ability to adopt local regulations for hazardous materials, including review and approval of the location of facilities that use or store hazardous materials or hazardous waste. 3. Support legislation that strengthens the enforcement of hazardous materials regulations. 4. Support legislation strengthening the diversion of hazardous waste from landfills. HOME RULE The City of Fort Collins is a home rule municipality under Article XX of the Colorado Constitution, which grants home rule municipalities "full right of self-government in local and municipal matters." Home rule authority affords the citizens of Fort Collins greater access to government and increased opportunity for participation and contribution to the decision making process. Home rule is of utmost importance to the City of Fort Collins: The City recognizes, however, that there are particular areas in which insistence on local control may be untimely or unwise. Therefore, proposed legislation must be reviewed on a case-by-case basis to determine when it is in the City's best interest to assert home rule authority and when the City should support statewide intervention. For example, the City must be free to regulate local activities that primarily impact the area within the City's boundaries, such as the speed of local traffic or the effects of particular land use developments. On the other hand, the cumulative effect of these and other activities has substantial 9 statewide ramifications which may call for statewide regulation, so that, for example, state regulation may be needed to effectively manage overall growth and development in the state, traffic congestion in major transportation corridors and environmental quality. Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements: 1. Support legislative efforts to strengthen home rule authority of municipal governments. 2. Oppose legislation that requires State or Federal intervention in matters of local concern and which unnecessarily or adversely affect the City's ability to manage pursuant to its home rule authority. HumAN RESOURCES The City of Fort Collins is committed to the safety and well-being of its employees. The City works diligently to be an efficient and responsible steward of tax dollars while ensuring that employees receive fair and competitive compensation and benefits.The City believes that its citizens, through their elected representatives on City Council, are in the best position to determine appropriate City employee compensation, benefits, and policies. Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements: 1. Oppose legislation that creates unnecessary burdens on or limits the City's ability to decide employment issues, including collective bargaining, arbitration, compensation, benefits and leaves. 2. Support legislation that expands the City's ability to offer health, welfare and wellness services for employees. 3. Oppose legislation that reduces current state funding for police officer death and disability benefits. 4. Oppose legislation that would permit employees with defined contribution plans to return to defined benefit plans if there is a cost to local government. NATURAL AREAS AND OPEN LANDS The City has a vigorous program to protect natural areas and other important open lands within Fort Collins, within our Community Growth Management Area, and regionally. The City works in partnership with other communities, Larimer County, private land trusts, Great Outdoors Colorado, community groups, and state and federal agencies to achieve community and regional conservation goals. 10 Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements: 1. Support legislation that maintains or enhances tax incentives for voluntary land conservation by private landowners. 2. Oppose legislation that reduces the effectiveness of existing protection for wetlands, wildlife habitats, and other sensitive natural areas. 3. Support additional funding for land conservation programs. 4. Support legislation protecting the Cache la Poudre River. PARKS AND RECREATION The City is committed to providing the community with excellent parks and recreation services and facilities. Our citizens enjoy a better quality of life, improved health, less crime and a.greater sense of community because of our quality parks and recreation programs. Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements: 1. Support legislation that maintains or enhances funding for parks, trails, forestry, horticulture and recreation services and facilities. 2. Support use of Great Outdoors Colorado and other sources for full funding of municipal government projects, with maximum local discretion regarding local needs and priorities. 3. Support legislation that enhances the City's ability to provide quality parks and recreation services and facilities for its citizens. PLANNING AND LAND USE Effective local land use planning and land development regulation contributes to the quality of life enjoyed primarily by Fort Collins residents, yet shared regionally within Larimer County. State legislation can influence local governments' ability to develop and implement land use plans for their communities. Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements: 1. Support legislation that requires regional cooperation in land use and transportation planning, and legislation that fosters sustainable development, without unduly constraining the City's home rule powers. ti 2. Support legislation that prohibits the annexation of land that is located within the boundaries of a Growth Management Area that was legally established by an intergovernmental agreement between a municipality and a county by any municipality not a party to the agreement. 3. Oppose legislation that would extend the definition of a compensable taking and/or the definition of vested property rights beyond the provisions of existing law. 4. Oppose legislation that would limit local government authority to impose development impact fees. PUBLIC SAFETY The Fort Collins City Council recognizes the critical importance of maintaining public order, providing a safe environment, and protecting the lives and property of the citizens of Fort Collins. Therefore,the City supports the following policy statements: 1. Support legislation that has the potential to reduce incidents of violence in the community, especially through the development of treatment and intervention programs for youth. 2. Support legislation and funding that provides greater protection to victims of crime. 3. Support legislation that maintains or enhances the City's right to use camera enforcement of traffic laws, reduces,operational restrictions on the use of camera enforcement, and increases the fines associated with violations. 4. Support legislation establishing protocols and funding for shared, statewide emergency response communications. 5. Support legislation that regulates medical marijuana manufacture, distribution and dispensaries. 6. Oppose programs that have the potential to compromise officer safety. 7. Support legislation that formally legitimizes the field of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) by establishing minimum training criteria and professional mediator certification. 12 8. Support legislation that regulates the use of cell phones by a motorist while operating a vehicle. 9. Oppose legislation that decreases funding for treatment of mental illness and substance abuse disorders. 10. Support legislation that maintains or enhances a statewide database of concealed weapons permits. RECYCLING AND SOLID WASTE The City of Fort Collins endorses a multi-pronged approach to waste minimization that includes recycling, re-use, composting and source reduction. Additionally, the City has adopted a goal of diverting 50% of the community's waste stream from landfill disposal. Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements: 1. Support legislation that clarifies and broadens the regulatory authority of local government to ensure the efficient management of recyclable material and solid waste. 2. Support legislation that encourages integrated waste management planning and implementation, including but not limited to creation of a State waste diversion goal. 3. Support legislation that provides incentives and funding for programs that promote waste reduction, reuse and recycling and development of related infrastructure. 4. Support legislation that enables "buy recycled" or"environmentally preferable purchasing"policies for government agency procurement. 5. Support legislation that continues or increases funding for programs to collect and monitor data on trash volumes, rates of diversion from landfill disposal and economic impacts of recycling. 6. Support legislation to require greater producer responsibility, such as "take back" regulations that assist consumers to appropriately recycle electronic equipment (e- waste.) 7. Support legislation that establishes a deposit fee on beverage containers and that would be used to pay for recycling programs. 13 RISK MANAGEMENT The City of Fort Collins recognizes the dual purpose of the workers' compensation system—providing benefits promptly to injured employees in a cost-effective manner and minimizing costly litigation. Council also recognizes that the City's self-insurance program is a cost efficient method to insure workers' compensation and that government intervention or taxation can negatively impact the City. Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements: 1. Support legislation that improves administrative efficiency of the Division of Workers' Compensation. 2. Oppose legislation that increases insurance premium costs to employers. 3. Oppose legislation that would add administrative burdens or taxes to self- insurance programs. 4. Oppose legislation that would promote claim litigation. 5. Oppose legislation that restricts the City's ability to manage workers' compensation claims, such as removing existing off-sets to workers' compensation benefits or limiting the City's ability to designate treating physicians. 6. Oppose legislation that presumptively expands workers compensation coverage to illnesses or injuries that are not work related. SOVEREIGN AND GOVERNMENTAL IMMUNITY The Fort Collins City Council recognizes that the complexity and diversity of City operations and services required to meet the needs of the citizens of Fort Collins may expose the City and its officers and employees to liability for damage and injury. The Council further recognizes that City officers and employees must be confident that they have the City's support in the lawful and proper performance of their assigned duties and responsibilities. Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements: 1. Support legislation that protects the interests of municipalities and their officers and employees in the lawful and proper performance of their duties and responsibilities. 2. Support legislation that discourages baseless and frivolous claims and demands made against municipalities, their officers and employees. 14 3. Oppose legislation that expands or increases municipal liability, or, conversely, further limits municipal immunity. TRANSPORTATION The City actively promotes the safety and ease of traveling to, from and throughout the community using a variety of modes of transportation. Additionally, the City's policy is to encourage the use of alternative transportation whenever appropriate. Therefore, the City supports the following policies: 1. Support legislation that facilitates cooperative programs among government agencies in order to help the City meet its basic transportation needs, including transit, street, highway, road and bridge construction and maintenance, and safe corridors for bicyclists and pedestrians. 2. Maintain and increase elected representatives' support for earmark funding for the balance of the Mason Corridor Small Starts project in 2011. 3. Oppose legislation that seeks to reduce the present allocation formula of 60% state, 22% counties, and 18%municipalities for Highway User Tax Fund (HUTF) or any appropriations from the State using the same formula. 4. Support exploration and analysis of alternative methods of funding transportation infrastructure needs. 5. Support reauthorization of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) by Congress. 6. Support legislation to fund analysis and implementation of inter- and intra-regional transit linkages, including future commuter rail connectivity. 7. Support legislation that facilitates regional planning for various modes of transportation with the goal of providing practical solutions to reduce reliance on single occupant vehicles. 8. Support efforts to encourage flexibility in federal funding and regulations in order to better meet the needs of small to medium size communities. 9. Support preservation of the federal guaranteed levels of funding for transportation, and allocation of all federal motor fuel taxes and other federal transportation trust funds for their intended transportation purposes. 15 10. Support legislation broadening the definition of the gasoline tax to a"fuel tax" that encompasses other fuel options as they become more prevalent. 11. Support legislation that limits the ability of railroad trains to block street and highway grade crossings for unreasonable periods. 12. Support legislation that facilitates the implementation of railroad quiet zones in municipalities and that reduces current train horn decibel and duration requirements. UTILITY SERVICES It is critical that the City operate its electric distribution, drinking water, stormwater and wastewater services in a financially sound, reliable, safe and environmentally acceptable manner. Like other municipal utilities across the country, Fort Collins is faced with many new and evolving challenges associated with changes in the industry, the age and security of its infrastructure and the necessity of managing a changing workforce. Therefore, the City supports the following policy statements: ENERGY 1. Support legislation that recognizes the importance of infrastructure security while minimizing restriction to the Utility's ability to manage security as an integral part of the system. 2. Support programs that provide assistance to local government, and that encourage and allow for local design and implementation of greenhouse gas reduction strategies. 3. Support legislation that establishes uniform standards for the reduction of carbon emissions. 4. Support legislation that encourages and funds energy efficiency and conservation while all•owing local design and implementation of the programs. 5. Support legislation and regulations that provide incentives to encourage renewable energy production, including wind power, and provide for"State Implementation Plan" credits for renewable energy(excluding residential wood burning and corn- based ethanol) and energy efficiency. 6. Oppose legislation that attempts to prevent or inhibit provision of municipal electric service in newly annexed areas. 16 WATER SUPPLY AND QUALITY 1. Support legislation that maintains or expands the authority delegated to the State to administer federally mandated water, stormwater and wastewater environmental regulatory programs (primacy). 2. Support water quality legislation that results in reasonable water quality control regulations that are cost effective and can show identifiable benefits. 3. Support legislation that enables local development of watershed protection. 4. Support legislation that provides the City the flexibility to enhance in-stream flows to preserve or improve the natural environment of the stream while protecting the integrity of Colorado's appropriation doctrine and City water supply. 5. Support legislation that recognizes the importance of infrastructure security while minimizing restriction to the Utility's ability to manage security as an integral part of the system. 6. Support adequate funding of mandated programs. 17 CITY OF FORT COLLINS LEGISLATIVE STAFF ;Legislative Review Committee Name District/Title Email Mayor Doug Hutchinson At large dutchinson@fcgov.com Mayor Pro Tern Kelly Ohlson District 5 kohlson@fcgov.com Councilmember Lisa Poppaw District 2 1poppaw@fcgov.com Darin Atteberry City Manager datteberry@fcgov.com Wendy Williams Assistant City Manager wwilliams@fcgov.com Steve Roy City Attorney sroy@fcgov.com Tess Heffernan Legislative Policy Manager theffeman@fcgov.com Legislative Staff-Liaison"Members v ; w,iP: J4.^s Topic Area Name Email Affordable Housing Julie Brewen jbrewen@fcgov.com Air Quality Lucinda Smith lsmith@fcgov.com Cable Television Franchise Carson Hamlin chamlin@fcgov.com Climate and Environmental Protection John Stokes jstokes@fcgov.com Natural Areas and Open Lands City Clerk Rita Harris rharris@fcgov.com Cultural Services J.R. Schnelzer jrschnelzer@fcgov.com Parks and Recreation Energy Patty Bigner pbigner@fcgov.com Water Supply and Quality Finance John Voss jvoss@fcgov.com Fire Protection Kevin Wilson kwilson@pfafireprevention.org Hazardous Materials Management Human Resources Janet Miller jmiller@fcgov.com Legal Carrie Daggett cdaggett@fcgov.com Neighborhood and Building Services Mike Gebo mgebo@fcgov.com Planning and Land Use Timothy Wilder twilder@fcgov.com Public Safety Rita Davis rdavis@fcgov.com Recycling and Solid Waste Susie Gordon sgordon@fcgov.com Risk Management Lance Murray lmurray@fcgov.com Transportation Mark Jackson mjackson@fcgov.com 18