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Home My WebLink AboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 04/03/2018 - SECOND READING OF ORDINANCE NO. 044, 2018, APPROPRAgenda Item 3 Item # 3 Page 1 AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY April 3, 2018 City Council STAFF Wendy Bricher, Financial Coordinator Susie Gordon, Environmental Program Manager Judy Schmidt, Legal SUBJECT Second Reading of Ordinance No. 044, 2018, Appropriating Prior Year Reserves in the General Fund for Waste Reduction and Diversion Projects Approved as Part of the Waste Innovation Program. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This Ordinance, unanimously adopted on Frist Reading on March 20, 2018, appropriates $111,000 accumulated during 2017 in the Waste Innovation Fund account into the City’s General Fund account to approve projects to develop new organizational processes that enable City departments to divert more waste material from landfill disposal. STAFF RECOMMENDATION Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on Second Reading. ATTACHMENTS 1. First Reading Agenda Item Summary, March 20, 2018 (w/o attachments) (PDF) 2. Ordinance No. 044, 2018 (PDF) Agenda Item 8 Item # 8 Page 1 AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY March 20, 2018 City Council STAFF Wendy Bricher, Financial Coordinator Susie Gordon, Environmental Program Manager Judy Schmidt, Legal SUBJECT First Reading of Ordinance No. 044, 2018, Appropriating Prior Year Reserves in the General Fund for Waste Reduction and Diversion Projects Approved as Part of the Waste Innovation Program. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The purpose of this item is to move $111,000 accumulated during 2017 in the Waste Innovation Fund account into the City’s General Fund account for approved projects to develop new organizational processes that enable departments to divert more waste material from landfill disposal. STAFF RECOMMENDATION Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading. BACKGROUND / DISCUSSION The City Manager created a fund in 2010 to pay for new projects that improve the City’s organizational ability to divert waste generated by municipal activities from being disposed in the Larimer County landfill. Discarded material and trash that City crews self-haul to the landfill is charged only 35 cents per cubic yard by Larimer County Solid Waste Department, which is passed through in payment to the state for landfill regulatory management and monitoring programs. The balance of the regular “tipping fee” at the landfill ($6.05 per cubic yard) is placed in the City’s Waste Innovation Program (WIP) fund. WIP revenues are received from 15 City departments that self-haul various types of waste the landfill in truckloads. An interdepartmental group of employees participates in reviewing proposals that are received from departments. Members of this group are also “waste reduction champions” throughout the organization and communicate with crews about how to best apply Best Management Practices in City operations. During 2018, five applications have been received (requesting $38,406 in funding) for waste reduction/recycling projects, ranging from increasing waste receptors in parks to a research-based pilot project to repurpose alum “flocculent”, which is a by-product from the Water Treatment plant. During the remainder of the year, additional projects that are proposed will also be eligible for funding from the Waste Innovation Program. CITY FINANCIAL IMPACTS The appropriation will make $111,000 available for emerging City organization waste reduction projects. The 2018 expenditures include $38,406 to fund five projects that were submitted in Q1 for approval. Staff proposals that are submitted to the Waste Innovation Program during Q2-Q4 will continue to be competitively reviewed ATTACHMENT 1 COPY Agenda Item 8 Item # 8 Page 2 and awarded, enabling new cost-savings measures to be put into practice by field crews throughout the organization. ATTACHMENT 1 COPY -1- ORDINANCE NO. 044, 2018 OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS APPROPRIATING PRIOR YEAR RESERVES IN THE GENERAL FUND FOR WASTE REDUCTION AND DIVERSION PROJECTS APPROVED AS PART OF THE WASTE INNOVATION PROGRAM WHEREAS, in 2010, the City created the Waste Innovation Program (the “WIP”) fund where funds for the program are held in a reserve account in the General Fund; and WHEREAS, the funds are used to administer grants that allow City departments to initiate new waste diversion and recycling projects with special attention to departments that have larger quantities of waste that is self-hauled to the Larimer County Landfill; and WHEREAS, an interdepartmental group of employees reviews proposals for incorporating waste reduction, promoting recycling strategies, and awarding funds when requests are received from participating City departments; and WHEREAS, in 2018 to date five applications have been received (requesting $38,406 in funding) for waste reduction/recycling projects, ranging from increasing waste receptors in parks to a research-based pilot project to repurpose alum “flocculent”, which is a by-product from the Water Treatment plant; and WHEREAS, staff proposals that are submitted to the Waste Innovation Program during the remainder of 2018 will continue to be competitively reviewed and additional projects that are approved will be eligible for funding from the Waste Innovation Program; 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; and WHEREAS, the Financial Officer has determined that the appropriations as described herein are available and previously unappropriated in the General Fund. 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 for expenditure from prior year reserves in the General Fund the sum ONE HUNDRED ELEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS ($111,000) for waste reduction and diversion projects to be approved as part of the Waste Innovation Program. -2- Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 20th day of March, A.D. 2018, and to be presented for final passage on the 3rd day of April, A.D. 2018. __________________________________ Mayor Pro Tem ATTEST: _______________________________ City Clerk Passed and adopted on final reading on the 3rd day of April, A.D. 2018. __________________________________ Mayor ATTEST: _______________________________ City Clerk