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AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY August 18, 2015
City Council
STAFF
Katie Stieber, Recreation Supervisor
SUBJECT
First Reading of Ordinance No. 091, 2015, Appropriating Unanticipated Grant Revenue into the Recreation
Fund for the Aging Mastery Program at the Fort Collins Senior Center.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The purpose of this item is to appropriate grant funds in the amount of $7,500 received from the National
Council on Aging to support a yearlong Aging Mastery Program at the Fort Collins Senior Center. The Aging
Mastery Program has been designed by the National Council on Aging and empowers older adults to make
and maintain small but impactful changes in their behaviors. The Program consists of two components, the
Aging Mastery Academy and AMP Clubs, both of which will be planned and programmed at the Fort Collins
Senior Center.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading.
BACKGROUND / DISCUSSION
The Aging Mastery Program (AMP) is a behavior change incentive program for aging well. Central to the AMP
philosophy is the belief that modest lifestyle changes can produce big results and that people can be
empowered and supported to cultivate health and longevity. Equally important, the program encourages
mastery skill development, sustainable behaviors across many dimensions that will lead to improved health,
stronger financial security, and overall well-being. Each level of mastery is based on consistency and duration,
allowing participants to set individual goals. Another key element of the program is the reward system,
designed to both motivate and encourage ongoing participation.
This program is in a pilot phase and the Fort Collins Senior Center has been chosen as one of eight grant
recipients to implement for one year. Aging Mastery is an outcome based program that will utilize checklists,
course outlines, assessments and evaluations to look at the value of the program itself as well as benefits that
seniors are gaining throughout the program. The goal is to create a self-sustaining program, after the grant
funding runs out, to continue the program into 2016-2017 and on.
CITY FINANCIAL IMPACTS
$7,500 will be awarded to the City’s Recreation Department through a grant by the National Council on Aging
in 2015. This money in turn will be appropriated through the Recreation Fund to fund all AMP presenters,
equipment and supplies, any staff time directly related to implementation, marketing costs, and program
rewards to participants.
PUBLIC OUTREACH
Staff will advertise the program in the Recreator magazine, public service announcements, and marketing
avenues available through our partners, Columbine Health System and University of Colorado Health.
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ORDINANCE NO. 091, 2015
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED GRANT REVENUE
INTO THE RECREATION FUND FOR THE AGING MASTERY PROGRAM
AT THE FORT COLLINS SENIOR CENTER
WHEREAS, the Recreation Department has received a grant from the National Council
on Aging for $7,500 to support a year-long Aging Mastery Program at the Fort Collins Senior
Center; and
WHEREAS, the Aging Mastery Program (the “Program”) has been designed by the
National Council on Aging and empowers older adults to make and maintain small but impactful
changes in their behaviors; and
WHEREAS, the Program consists of two components, the Aging Mastery Academy and
AMP Clubs, both of which will be planned and programmed at the Fort Collins Senior Center;
and
WHEREAS, the Program encourages mastery skill development, sustainable behaviors
across many dimensions that will lead to improved health, stronger financial security, and overall
well-being; and
WHEREAS, Article V, Section 9, of the Charter of the City of Fort Collins 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 have determined that the appropriation of the grant revenue as
described herein will not cause the total amount appropriated in the Recreation Fund to exceed
the current estimate of actual and anticipated revenues to be received in that fund during the
fiscal year.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
FORT COLLINS that there is hereby appropriated for expenditure from unanticipated grant
revenue in the Recreation Fund the sum of SEVEN THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS
($7,500) to support a year-long Aging Mastery Program at the Fort Collins Senior Center.
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Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 18th day of
August, A.D. 2015, and to be presented for final passage on the 1st day of September, A.D.
2015.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading on the 1st day of September, A.D. 2015.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Clerk