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AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY May 20, 2014
City Council
STAFF
Dan Weinheimer, Policy & Project Manager
SUBJECT
Second Reading of Ordinance No. 073, 2014, Appropriating Prior Year Reserves in the General Fund to Fund
the Fort Collins West Nile Virus Management Program for the 2014 Season.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Ordinance No. 73,2014, unanimously adopted on First Reading on May 6, 2014, changes the funding sources
for the West Nile Virus Management Program. The Ordinance appropriates $131,492 in General Fund
reserves and removes all Natural Areas Fund dollars allocated to the West Nile Virus Management Program.
This action will not reduce the overall program budget. The fund allocation change was requested to better
align the program’s public health purpose and citywide impact with the source of operating dollars.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on Second Reading.
ATTACHMENTS
1. Ordinance No. 073, 2014 (PDF)
ORDINANCE NO. 073, 2014
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING PRIOR YEAR RESERVES IN THE GENERAL FUND TO
FUND THE FORT COLLINS WEST NILE VIRUS
MANAGEMENT PROGRAM FOR THE 2014 SEASON
WHEREAS, the Fort Collins’ West Nile Virus Management Program (the “Program”)
emphasizes education and public information, source reduction on public and private property,
and larval management ahead of a pesticide application; and
WHEREAS, larval management is a proven mosquito management approach that is
currently conducted within the City’s limits and a boundary extending outside of the City limits;
and
WHEREAS, this Program focuses on public health and, therefore, shall be primarily
funded from General and Enterprise funds; and
WHEREAS, funding for the Program in the 2013-2014 biennial budget has been
allocated from the General Fund (39.4%), Utilities Storm Water Fund (6.1%), and Natural Areas
Fund (54.5%); and
WHEREAS, the Natural Areas Department has committed to contribute approximately
$131,492 to the Program in 2014; and
WHEREAS, staff is requesting an appropriation in the amount of $131,492 from prior
year reserves in the General Fund to be applied to the Program in lieu of the anticipated funding
contribution from the Natural Areas Fund for 2014; and
WHEREAS, Article V, Section 9, of the City Charter permits the City Council to
appropriate by ordinance at any time during the fiscal year such funds for expenditure as may be
available from reserves accumulated in prior years, notwithstanding that such reserves were not
previously appropriated.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
FORT COLLINS that there is hereby appropriated for expenditure from reserves in the General
Fund the sum of ONE HUNDRED THIRTY ONE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED NINETY
TWO DOLLARS ($131,492) to fund the City’s West Nile Virus Management Program in 2014
as provided herein.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 6th day of
May, A.D. 2014, and to be presented for final passage on the 20th day of May, A.D. 2014.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading on the 20th day of May, A.D. 2014.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Clerk