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AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY March 3, 2015
City Council
STAFF
Tracy Ochsner, Assistant Operations Services Director
SUBJECT
Second Reading of Ordinance No. 017, 2015, Appropriating Unanticipated Grant Revenue and Prior Year
Reserves in the Equipment Fund for Electric Vehicle Charging Stations and Natural Gas Vehicles.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This Ordinance, unanimously adopted on First Reading on February 17, 2015, appropriates $67,920 and
$12,177 in grant funds plus the local match of $16,950 and $2,435 into the Equipment fund for the purchase of
two Natural Gas dump trucks and three Fleet vehicle charging stations.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on Second Reading.
ATTACHMENTS
1. First Reading Agenda Item Summary, February 17, 2015 (PDF)
2. Ordinance No. 017, 2015 (PDF)
Agenda Item 4
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AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY February 17, 2015
City Council
STAFF
Tracy Ochsner, Assistant Operations Services Director
SUBJECT
First Reading of Ordinance No. 017, 2015, Appropriating Unanticipated Grant Revenue and Prior Year
Reserves in the Equipment Fund for Electric Vehicle Charging Stations and Natural Gas Vehicles.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The purpose of this item is to appropriate $67,920 and $12,177 in grant funds plus the local match of $16,950
and $2,435 into the Equipment fund for the purchase of two Natural Gas dump trucks and three Fleet vehicle
charging stations.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading.
BACKGROUND / DISCUSSION
The City of Fort Collins currently has seven plug-in electric sedans, with plans to purchase additional vehicles
in the future. In order to expand the fleet, it is necessary to install additional charging stations at City facilities.
The City received a "Charge Ahead Colorado" grant of $12,177 from the State of Colorado to install three
stations at various City facilities to be used for Fleet vehicle charging. This grant requires a 20% local match.
The City has one compressed natural gas dump truck and has received a grant of $67,920 through the
Regional Air Quality Council for the incremental cost for two additional compressed natural gas dump trucks to
be used by Water Utilities. This grant is funded by the "ALT Fuels Colorado" program and also requires a
local match of $16,950.
CITY FINANCIAL IMPACTS
The vehicle charging stations grant requires a local match of $2,435 and the compressed natural gas trucks
grant requires a local match of $16,950.
City staff anticipates the charging stations will save 2,333 gallons of gasoline per year, while the natural gas
trucks will save 3,981 bio-diesel gallons per year. Combined, this is will reduce the production of greenhouse
gases by 25.7 tons annually.
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ORDINANCE NO. 017, 2015
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED GRANT REVENUE AND PRIOR YEAR
RESERVES IN THE EQUIPMENT FUND FOR ELECTRIC
VEHICLE CHARGING STATIONS AND NATURAL GAS VEHICLES
WHEREAS, the City has been awarded a “Charge Ahead Colorado” grant from the State
of Colorado in the amount of $12,177 to install three electric vehicle charging stations at City
Facilities; and
WHEREAS, the “Charge Ahead Colorado” grant requires a 20% local match in the
amount of $2,435, which will come from Equipment Fund prior year reserves; and
WHEREAS, the City has also received a grant through the Regional Air Quality Council
funded by the “ALT Fuels Colorado” program in the amount of $67,920 for the purchase of two
Natural Gas dump trucks to be used by the Water Utility; and
WHEREAS, the “ALT Fuels Colorado” grant requires a local match in the amount of
$16,950, which will come from Equipment Fund prior year reserves; 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 grant funds described
herein will not cause the total amount appropriated in the Capital Projects Fund to exceed the
current estimate of actual and anticipated revenues to be received during the fiscal year; 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 as follows:
Section 1. That there is hereby appropriated for expenditure from unanticipated grant
revenue in the Equipment Fund the sum of EIGHTY THOUSAND NINETY-SEVEN
DOLLARS ($80,097) for expenditure in the Equipment Fund for the purchase of two natural gas
dump trucks and three fleet vehicle charging stations.
Section 2. That there is hereby appropriated for expenditure from prior year reserves
in the Equipment Fund the sum of NINETEEN THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED EIGHTY-
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FIVE DOLLARS ($19,385) for expenditure in the Equipment Fund for the purchase of two
natural gas dump trucks and three fleet vehicle charging stations.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 17th day of
February, A.D. 2015, and to be presented for final passage on the 3rd day of March, A.D. 2015.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading on the 3rd day of March, A.D. 2015.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Clerk