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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 07/19/2016 - RESOLUTION 2016-056 RECOGNIZING AND SUPPORTING THEAgenda Item 14 Item # 14 Page 1 AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY July 19, 2016 City Council STAFF Sharon Thomas, CDBG/HOME Program Administrator SUBJECT Resolution 2016-056 Recognizing and Supporting the City's Culture and Health in Order to Join the Healthy Eating and Active Living Cities & Towns Campaign and Fulfill the Requirements for the Kaiser Permanente Walk & Wheel Colorado Grant Awarded to the City in 2014. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The purpose of this item is to consider a resolution in support of the City’s culture of health. The City’s FCMoves Department was awarded a Kaiser Permanente Walk & Wheel grant to fund bicycle safety education and outreach, Open Streets events, bicycle and pedestrian data collection, an update to and printing of the Fort Collins bicycle map, and the development of the Fort Collins Bike Share Business Plan. Joining the HEAL Cities & Towns Campaign of LiveWell Colorado by adopting this resolution fulfills Kaiser’s expectations for grant recipients. STAFF RECOMMENDATION Staff recommends adoption of the Resolution. BACKGROUND / DISCUSSION LiveWell Colorado is a nonprofit organization committed to preventing and reducing obesity in Colorado by promoting healthy eating and active living. LiveWell Colorado aims to provide every Coloradan with access to healthy foods and opportunities for physical activity. LiveWell Colorado was established in 2009 through funding through the Colorado Health Foundation and Kaiser Permanente, and in partnership with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. A partnership between LiveWell Colorado and the Colorado Municipal League, the Healthy Eating and Active Living (HEAL) Cities & Towns Campaign is funded through a grant from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease and Pulmonary Disease Grant Program and supported by Kaiser Permanente. HEAL Campaign provides training and technical assistance to help cities improve access to physical activity and healthy food. Once the resolution is formally adopted Fort Collins becomes a member of the Campaign. There are currently 41 Colorado communities participating in the HEAL Campaign. Out of four categories - Eager, Active, Fit and Elite - eight communities are designated as “Fit” and one is designated as “Elite”. Based upon programs and policies in support of healthy eating and active living activities that are already in place, Fort Collins will enter into the Campaign at the” Fit” level. While communities may independently join the Campaign, Fort Collins will be joining as a result of receiving the 2014 Kaiser Permanente Walk & Wheel Grant. Adoption of the HEAL Campaign resolution fulfills Kaiser’s expectations for grant recipients. As a member of the Campaign the City will receive the following benefits:  Technical assistance on healthy eating and active living initiatives  Access to free webinars and trainings Agenda Item 14 Item # 14 Page 2  Recognition at Colorado Municipal League events  Recognition on the HEAL Cities & Towns website  Participation at the annual HEAL Cities & Towns Campaign Summit For more information about LiveWell Colorado and the HEAL Cities & Towns Campaign visit the website at livewellcolorado.org . ATTACHMENTS 1. HEAL campaign brochure (PDF) HEAL CITIES & TOWNS CAMPAIGN AN INITIATIVE OF LIVEWELL COLORADO AND THE COLORADO MUNICIPAL LEAGUE BRING and active living TO YOUR COMMUNITY healthy eating ATTACHMENT 1 HEADED IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION The HEAL (Healthy Eating Active Living) Cities & Towns Campaign of Colorado is a partnership between LiveWell Colorado and the Colorado Municipal League (CML). The campaign provides training and technical assistance to help city officials adopt policies that improve access to physical activity and healthy food. At LiveWell Colorado, we know that supporting healthy choices is essential to addressing the obesity epidemic among Colorado’s children and adults. We’re confident we can make great headway by partnering with municipal officials to make this happen. THE INTERSECTION OF QUALITY & LIFE As a civic leader, you can and do make meaningful differences in people’s lives. One way to effect change is by developing and implementing policies that help residents take steps toward healthier, more active living. Our HEAL Cities & Towns Campaign makes it all so easy. First, joining is free. And second, our knowledgeable, helpful staff provides assistance in crafting these policies, sharing the workload. Choose your goals, and together we can help lift the quality of your residents’ lives. GET MOVING ON A SMART INVESTMENT Healthier communities lead to healthier people — the same people who work for your local businesses or as municipal employees. So, it makes bottom-line sense to become a HEAL City or Town. It helps prevent and reduce obesity and related conditions, cut down on lost productivity and curb health care costs. Better yet, your healthy city makes the top of the list when business leaders and residents are deciding where to relocate. Joining the Campaign is a smart, long-term investment. JUST THE MOMENTUM YOU NEED Joining the Campaign is free and easy. Our staff assists in drafting a resolution, which outlines the focus of your policy area(s). Once the resolution is formally adopted, your town becomes a member of the Campaign. You then have access to our free support and training, helping turn your policy goals into reality. PUT YOUR CITY OR TOWN ON THE MAP THE FACTS • Fifty-eight percent of adults and nearly a quarter of children in Colorado are overweight or obese.i • The current adult obesity rate of 20.9 percent, which makes us the “leanest” state today, would have made us the “fattest” state in 1995.ii • Colorado spent $1.637 billion treating diseases and conditions related to obesity in 2009.iii • If Colorado’s adult obesity rate returned to 1996 levels, Colorado employers and employees could save an estimated $228.9 million annually in health care costs.iv What makes a city or town healthy? It’s about more than nice views, clean surroundings and a busy economy. Healthy cities offer environments that give residents plenty of opportunities to be physically active and eat healthy foods. Bike lanes, recreation centers, farmers’ markets — these are the kind of 21st century resources that make towns vital and attractive to both home buyers and businesses. People want to work and live in a place that makes it easy to live well. JOIN THE HEAL CITIES & TOWNS CAMPAIGN LIVEWELLCOLORADO.ORG/HEALCAMPAIGN i Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2010. ii The 2012 Colorado Health Report Card, The Colorado Health Foundation, 2013; Obesity Trends, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2012. iii Trogdon, J.G., Finkelstein, E.A. Feagan, C.W., Cohen, ONWARD TO BETTER LIVING ACTIVE COMMUNITY HEALTHY FOOD ACCESS HEALTHY WORKPLACE • Technical assistance on policy work • Branding components including use of Campaign logo • Media relations assistance • Recognition at CML regional meetings and various CML events • Plaque to display in your municipal building • Recognition in quarterly newsletter Eager Cities & Towns join the Campaign by adopting a HEAL Cities & Towns Campaign Resolution, expressing the intent to work with us on at least one HEAL policy area. Active Cities & Towns are municipalities that already have at least one HEAL policy on their books before joining the Campaign. They join our Campaign by submitting this policy as well as adopting a resolution expressing the intent to work with us on additional HEAL policies. Eager Cities & Towns become Active by adopting a second HEAL policy. Fit Cities & Towns are those that have adopted a policy in each of our three outlined policy areas after joining the Campaign. Elite Cities & Towns have adopted the three policies described in our Fit category plus two additional policies, bringing the total to five policies. Policies concerning land use, planning, zoning, infrastructure develop- ment, etc. Policies regarding farmers’ markets, urban agriculture, ways to attract healthy food vendors and more Policies that increase opportunities for physical activity and healthy eating for municipal employees EAGER ACTIVE FIT ELITE BENEFITS SELECT CAMPAIGN CAMPAIGN POLICY AREAS CAMPAIGN LEVELS Our goal is to help you build a super healthy city. But we also recognize that each town moves at its own pace. That’s why we’ve developed four graduated categories of HEAL Cities & Towns. As you work with us to achieve each new level, we offer additional rec- ognition through the use of the HEAL logo for your website, press releases and more. We provide the resources, expertise and inspiration, and you sustain the momentum to reach the highest level of healthy eating and active living for your city. TAKE THE HIGH ROAD TO HEALTH The HEAL Cities & Towns Campaign is free. With technical assistance from our experts, it’s time efficient. You also gain the satisfaction of helping your fellow residents improve their health. Plus, by boosting the overall appeal of your city or town in the eyes of prospective new businesses and residents, it’s a smart economic development move. Why not get started today? Join your colleagues all across Colorado in the HEAL Cities & Towns Campaign. Contact Julie George, HEAL Cities & Towns Campaign Director, at juliegeorge@livewellcolorado.org or 720.353.4120 x217 Visit LiveWellColorado.org/HEALCampaign for more details. Aurora LIVEWELL COLORADO IS A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION COMMITTED TO REDUCING OBESITY IN COLORADO BY PROMOTING HEALTHY EATING AND ACTIVE LIVING. A HEALTHY PARTNERSHIP A partnership between LiveWell Colorado and the Colorado Municipal League, the HEAL Cities & Towns Campaign is funded through a grant from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease and Pulmonary Disease Grant Program and supported by Kaiser Permanente. ABOUT COLORADO MUNICIPAL LEAGUE (CML) The Colorado Municipal League (CML) is a nonprofit, nonpar- tisan organization that has served and represented Colorado’s cities and towns since 1923. Currently, 265 of Colorado’s 271 municipalities are members of CML and benefit from advocacy, information and training services. CML’s mission is twofold: to represent cities and towns collectively in matters before the state and federal government, and to provide a wide range of information services to assist municipal officials in managing their governments. ABOUT LIVEWELL COLORADO LiveWell Colorado is a nonprofit organization committed to preventing and reducing obesity in Colorado by promoting healthy eating and active living. Working in partner- ship with obesity prevention efforts across the state, LiveWell Colorado aims to provide every Coloradan with access to healthy foods and opportunities for physical activity in the places they live, work, learn and play. LiveWell Colorado was established in 2009 through generous funding by its strategic partners and funders, the Colorado Health Foundation and Kaiser Permanente, and in partnership with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. BEHIND THE MOVEMENT ©2013 COPYRIGHT LIVEWELL COLORADO. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ADVISORY COMMITTEE The 10-member Advisory Committee provides valuable leadership, feedback and guidance to the Campaign. The Committee lends the Campaign the mu- nicipal insider’s view and champions the role of municipalities in promoting HEAL. CHARLES BAYLEY* Mayor Pro Tem, Bennett, CO MIKE BRAATEN Deputy City Manager, Littleton, CO RENÉ BULLOCK Mayor Pro Tem, Commerce City, CO PAMELA GOULD Council Member, Golden, CO SHANE HALE City Manager, Cortez, CO NIKKI KNOEBEL Mayor, Oak Creek, CO JAN MARTIN* Council Member, Colorado Springs, CO NICOLE NICOLETTA Council Member, Manitou Springs, CO VICKY QUINLIN Council Member, Brush, CO HEIDI WILLIAMS Mayor, Thornton, CO *Colorado Municipal League executive board member CONTACT US TODAY TO BECOME A HEAL CITY OR TOWN. Julie George, HEAL Cities & Towns Campaign Director 720.353.4120 x217 • juliegeorge@livewellcolorado.org LiveWellColorado.org/HEALCampaign LiveWellColo livewellco livewellco LiveWellColorado Last updated February 2014 -1- RESOLUTION 2016-056 OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS RECOGNIZING AND SUPPORTING THE CITY’S CULTURE OF HEALTH IN ORDER TO JOIN THE HEALTHY EATING AND ACTIVE LIVING CITIES & TOWNS CAMPAIGN AND FULFILL THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE KAISER PERMANENTE WALK & WHEEL COLORADO GRANT AWARDED TO THE CITY IN 2014 WHEREAS, LiveWell Colorado is a nonprofit organization committed to preventing and reducing obesity in the state by promoting healthy eating and active living in the places we live, work, learn and play; and WHEREAS, in 2012 the Colorado Municipal League entered into a memorandum of understanding with LiveWell Colorado to work collaboratively on the Healthy Eating and Active Living (HEAL) Cities & Towns Campaign (the “Campaign”); and WHEREAS, the Campaign is funded by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and Kaiser Permanente (“Kaiser”), and aims to reduce and prevent obesity by engaging municipal leaders to champion healthy eating and active living in their communities through adoption of policy and promotion opportunities for residents and municipal employees; and WHEREAS, in 2014 Kaiser awarded the City a Walk & Wheel Colorado Grant to fund bicycle and pedestrian education and outreach (the “Grant”); and WHEREAS, although the Grant agreement does not mention the Campaign, Kaiser’s funding application guidelines stated that funded communities must be enrolled in or enroll in the Campaign with the first year of being funded by adopting a resolution in support of healthy communities that includes a commitment to adopt at least one policy in support of healthy eating and active living; and WHEREAS, City staff wishes to fulfill this requirement and is recommending that the Council approve this Resolution and join the Campaign; and WHEREAS, Fort Collins was ranked #1 for the Let’s Move! Cities, Towns and Counties initiative in 2014 and has been asked to participate in the Let’s Move! Cities, Towns and Counties All-Stars initiative; and WHEREAS, the City of Fort Collins maintains 875 acres of parks (including six community parks and 42 neighborhood parks), 41,000 acres of natural areas, 110 miles of off- street hiking/biking trails, three golf courses, a racquet center, three swimming pools, and an ice rink; and WHEREAS, in 2013 Fort Collins was designated a Platinum-level Bicycle Friendly Community by the League of American Bicyclists - one of only five communities in the country to reach this level; and -2- WHEREAS, in 2016, the City of Fort Collins was designated a Platinum-level Bicycle Friendly Business - one of only two Platinum businesses in Colorado; and WHEREAS, the City of Fort Collins was identified as a Health Links-Certified Healthy Business Leader in 2016 for its promotion of workplace wellness; and WHEREAS, Fort Collins demonstrates ongoing support of active transportation through the development, adoption, and ongoing funding and implementation of cutting-edge multi- modal transit including the 2014 Bicycle Master Plan, 2011 Pedestrian Plan, Trails Master Plan, rapid transit bus service, regular bus service and 170 miles of on-street bike lanes; and WHEREAS, Fort Collins residents have a long-standing commitment to community health, supporting tax measures to fund community priorities; and WHEREAS, Fort Collins has been a leader in tobacco policy, systems and environmental changes, and in 2015 expanded a smoke-free policy to all City buildings, grounds, parks, trails, natural areas, the Downtown area and City-sponsored events; and WHEREAS, Fort Collins has a long history of addressing community health needs through citizen engagement and collaboration with other local governments, health care providers and public health practitioners; and WHEREAS, while individual lifestyle changes are necessary, individual effort alone will not ensure a healthy community: societal and environmental changes are necessary to support individual efforts to make healthy choices easier for all who live, work, learn and play in the Fort Collins community; and WHEREAS, by joining the Campaign the City will receive the following benefits:  Free technical assistance on healthy eating and active living initiatives;  Access to free webinars and trainings;  Public relations and marketing resources;  Recognition at Colorado Municipal League events;  Recognition on the Campaign website; and  Participation in the annual HEAL Cities & Towns Campaign Summit. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED 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 the City Council hereby recognizes health and wellness as a critical component to the well-being of adults, children and families in Fort Collins, and to that end adopts this Resolution directing the City Manager to take such actions as may be necessary or appropriate to enroll the City in the HEAL Cities & Towns Campaign. -3- Section 3. That as part of its commitment to not only maintain but to strengthen the culture of health in Fort Collins, the City, its staff and collaborative partners will be intentional in developing an active community and supporting opportunities for healthy food access, and the City intends to continue setting an example for other businesses by maintaining a leading workplace wellness program. Passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the Council of the City of Fort Collins this 19th day of July, A.D. 2016. _________________________________ Mayor ATTEST: _____________________________ City Clerk Bennett Brush Buena Vista Commerce City Cortez Denver Frederick Lamar Leadville Littleton Manitou Springs Milliken Oak Creek Salida Steamboat Thornton MUNICIPALITIES THAT JOINED IN 2013: J.W. (2012). State- and Payer Specific Estimates of Annual Medical Expenditures Attributable to Obesity, Obesity, 10, 214-220. iv Keeping Colorado Competitive: Roadmap to a Healthier, More Productive Workforce (Supplement to the 2012 Colorado Health Report Card), The Colorado Health Foundation, 2013.