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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 01/17/2017 - FIRST READING OF ORDINANCE NO. 007, 2017. APPROPRIAgenda Item 5 Item # 5 Page 1 AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY January 17, 2017 City Council STAFF Mary Pat Aardrup, Environmental Planner SUBJECT First Reading of Ordinance No. 007, 2017. Appropriating Unanticipated Grant Revenue in the General Fund for the Encore Fellowship Program. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The purpose of this item is to appropriate $25,000 of unanticipated grant revenues to the General Fund from the Encore Fellowship Program to the City of Fort Collins. Encore implements an innovative social purpose workplace initiative designed to utilize experienced and talented corporate employees in the non-profit sector. The Encore Fellowship Program will provide the City with 1,000 hours of paid hourly staff time in 2017 to support the City’s Indoor Air Quality initiatives, including the Healthy Homes program. Indoor air quality is one of the four “High Priority” pollutants as identified in the City’s 2011 Air Quality Plan. STAFF RECOMMENDATION Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading. BACKGROUND / DISCUSSION Encore is an innovative social purpose workplace initiative. It is designed to utilize experienced and talented corporate employees in the non-profit sector. The Encore Fellowship program will provide the City with 1,000 hours of paid hourly staff time in 2017 to support the City’s Indoor Air Quality initiatives, including the Healthy Homes program. Tony Fourcroy will be joining the Environmental Services Department (“ESD”) through the Encore Fellowship program. As a part of his early retirement package, Intel committed $25,000 to the Encore Fellowship Program to fund the grant for this 1,000 hour commitment. Mr. Fourcroy’s salary will be $25.00 per hour as an hourly employee of the City. Mr. Fourcroy is a Microprocessor Design Engineer and worked at Intel from 2005- present. This is the first Encore Fellow employed by the City of Fort Collins. Mr. Tony Fourcroy will be assisting ESD with:  the Healthy Homes Program database management,  development of the Do It Yourself assessment and,  Healthy Homes program evaluation. Encore sees aging as a solution. Those individuals in and beyond midlife represent a powerful source of talent with the accumulated skills, experience and wisdom of our aging workforce. Encore embraces this population by harnessing these skills and partnering with a corporation to provide additional resources to the communities in which they reside. This grant provides funding for an additional part-time person for the indoor air quality programs in 2017. The Encore Fellowship Program provides an important opportunity to the City to add capacity to support indoor Agenda Item 5 Item # 5 Page 2 air quality programs. CITY FINANCIAL IMPACTS The City benefits by a $25,000 grant which supports this initiative. No matching funds are required. The City will provide office space and equipment for this hourly position. ATTACHMENTS 1. Encore Grant Agreement (PDF) ATTACHMENT 1 -1- ORDINANCE NO. 007, 2017 OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED GRANT REVENUE IN THE GENERAL FUND FOR THE ENCORE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM WHEREAS, the City has been awarded a grant from the Encore Fellowship Program (“Encore”) operated by Civic Ventures, a California nonprofit corporation, dba Encore.org in the amount of $25,000 to utilize experienced and talented corporate employees in the non-profit sector; and WHEREAS, the Encore grant funds will be used to employ an individual for 1,000 hours to assist with the City’s existing indoor air quality programs, specifically the Healthy Homes Program and program evaluation and development of the Do It Yourself program assessment; and WHEREAS, the grant requires no matching funds; 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 that 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 Encore Fellowship Program 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 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS as follows: Section 1. That the City Council hereby makes and adopts the determinations and findings contained in the recitals set forth above. Section 2. That there is hereby appropriated from unanticipated grant revenue in the General Fund the sum of TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($25,000) for expenditure in the General Fund for air quality programs. -2- Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 17th day of January, A.D. 2017, and to be presented for final passage on the 7th day of February, A.D. 2017. __________________________________ Mayor ATTEST: _______________________________ City Clerk Passed and adopted on final reading on the 7th day of February, A.D. 2017. __________________________________ Mayor ATTEST: _______________________________ City Clerk