HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 11/19/2013 - FIRST READING OF ORDINANCE NO. 163, 2013, APPROPRAgenda Item 5
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AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY November 19, 2013
City Council
STAFF
Brian Woodruff, Environmental Planner
SUBJECT
First Reading of Ordinance No. 163, 2013, Appropriating Unanticipated Grant Revenue in the General
Fund for the Environmental Services Radon Program and Authorizing the Transfer of Matching Funds
Previously Appropriated in the Environmental Services Operating Budget.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The purpose of this item is to appropriate $4,973 awarded to the City by the Colorado Department of
Public Health and Environment, to transfer a matching amount of $4,973 from the 2013 General Fund,
and to combine these in the Environmental Services Radon Program account. The Radon Program
carries out radon risk-reduction activities as identified in the current City Budget.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading.
BACKGROUND / DISCUSSION
This Ordinance appropriates $4,973 of unanticipated grant revenues in the General Fund. The Colorado
Department of Public Health and Environment granted these funds to the City for a program to encourage
radon testing and mitigation through media advertising and low-cost test kit sales. The grant directly
supports radon activities identified in the City budget offer, “Air Quality Improvement.” The grant requires
a local match of $4,973. Matching funds for the program will be transferred from the 2013 Environmental
Services operating budget. Grant and matching funds would be combined in a new Environmental
Services Radon Program account.
FINANCIAL / ECONOMIC IMPACT
City resources would be increased by $4,973. Required matching funds have already been appropriated
in the 2013 General Fund.
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
These funds will be used to lower the lung-cancer risk of Fort Collins residents that have elevated home
radon levels.
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ORDINANCE NO. 163, 2013
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED GRANT REVENUE IN THE
GENERAL FUND FOR THE NATURAL RESOURCES RADON PROGRAM
AND AUTHORIZING THE TRANSFER OF MATCHING FUNDS
PREVIOUSLY APPROPRIATED IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES
OPERATING BUDGET
WHEREAS, the Fort Collins Environmental Services Radon Program (the "Program") is
part of the City’s indoor air quality initiative; and
WHEREAS, the Program is guided by the City’s Air Quality Plan and has a policy goal
of educating and encouraging residents to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution; and
WHEREAS, the Program currently includes aggressive education, a voluntary radon
testing program, and a mandatory radon mitigation in new construction; and
WHEREAS, in addition, City Code Section 12-111 requires the distribution of radon
information to all residential home-buyers at point-of-sale; and
WHEREAS, the City has received a grant from the Colorado Department of Public
Health and Environment (“CDPHE”) in the amount of $4,973 to support programming to lower
the lung-cancer risk of Fort Collins residents through radon activities identified in two 2013 City
Budget offers: Air Quality Improvement and the Radon Mitigation Behavioral Study; and
WHEREAS, the CDPHE grant requires $4,973 of matching funds, which have been
included in the 2013 Environmental Services budget and are available for transfer to the
Program; and
WHEREAS, Article V, Section 9, of the City Charter permits the City Council to make
supplemental appropriations by ordinance at any time during the fiscal year, provided the total
amount of such supplemental appropriations, in combination with all previous appropriations for
that fiscal year, does not exceed the current estimate of actual and anticipated revenues to be
received during the fiscal year; and
WHEREAS, City staff has determined that the appropriation of the CDHE grant funds as
described herein will not cause the total amount appropriated in the General Fund to exceed the
current estimate of actual and anticipated revenues to be received in that fund during the fiscal
year; and
WHEREAS, Article V, Section 10, of the City Charter authorizes the City Council to
transfer by ordinance any unexpected and unencumbered amount or portion thereof from one
project to another project, provided the purpose for which the transferred funds are to be
expended remains unchanged.
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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
FORT COLLINS as follows:
Section 1. That there is hereby appropriated from unanticipated grant revenue in the
General Fund the sum of FOUR THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED SEVENTY THREE
DOLLARS ($4,973) for expenditure in the General Fund for the Environmental Services Radon
Program.
Section 2. That the unexpended appropriated amount of FOUR THOUSAND NINE
HUNDRED SEVENTY THREE DOLLARS ($4,973) is hereby authorized for transfer from the
2013 Natural Resources operating budget in the General Fund to the Environmental Services
Radon Program, in fulfillment of CDPHE grant requirements, and appropriated herein.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 19th day of
November, A.D. 2013, and to be presented for final passage on the 3rd day of December, A.D.
2013.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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Deputy City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading on the 3rd day of December, A.D. 2013.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Clerk
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