HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 02/07/2017 - SECOND READING OF ORDINANCE NO. 007, 2017. APPROPRAgenda Item 3
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AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY February 7, 2017
City Council
STAFF
Mary Pat Aardrup, Environmental Planner
SUBJECT
Second Reading of Ordinance No. 007, 2017. Appropriating Unanticipated Grant Revenue in the General Fund
for the Encore Fellowship Program.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This Ordinance, unanimously adopted on First Reading on January 17, 2017, appropriates $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.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on Second Reading.
ATTACHMENTS
1. First Reading Agenda Item Summary, January 17, 2017 (w/o attachments) (PDF)
2. Ordinance No. 007, 2017 (PDF)
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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
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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)
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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.
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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.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading on the 7th day of February, A.D. 2017.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Clerk