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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
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and awarded, enabling new cost-savings measures to be put into practice by field crews throughout the
organization.
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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.
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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.
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Mayor Pro Tem
ATTEST:
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City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading on the 3rd day of April, A.D. 2018.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Clerk