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MEMORANDUM
DATE: July 15, 2021
TO: Mayor and City Councilmembers
FROM: Darin Atteberry, City Manager
CC: Teresa Roche, Chief Human Resources Officer
RE: Recommendation for Additional City Holidays
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The intent of this memo is to provide an update on increasing the number of City
holidays following a recent Council priorities discussion. The attached memorandum
explains the rationale behind this change and provides supporting market research
findings. I plan to implement this change if I do not receive any feedback to the contrary
from any of you by next Friday.
Human Resources
215 N. Mason Street
Fort Collins, CO 80522
970.221.6535
Date: July 5, 2021
To: Darin Atteberry, City Manager
From: Teresa Roche, Chief Human Resources Officer
CC: Kelly DiMartino, Deputy City Manager
Kyle Stannert, Deputy City Manager
Travis Storin, Chief Financial Officer
Tyler Marr, Interim Information and Employees Services Director
Re: Proposed Holiday Schedule 2021 and 2022
The intention of this memo is to ask for your approval to add one additional paid City holiday in 2021 and
another paid City holiday in 2022.
In 2019, twenty organizations were surveyed, including thirteen cities and three counties and additional large
employers in the Fort Collins area (CSU, PFA, PRPA, and PSD) along the Front Range to examine the common
practice for paid holidays in municipalities and related organizations.
Findings:
x The median number of annual paid holidays offered to employees is 11.
x 80% of those surveyed designate the Friday after Thanksgiving as a paid holiday. City and County of
Denver and Westminster do not—Denver has César Chávez Day in March and an eleventh floating
holiday, and Westminster has a four/ten schedule.
x Eleven organizations offer floating holidays to provide options to employees.
x The City of Fort Collins was the only municipality that offered nine holidays.
Decisions to Date and Recommendation:
x In the early fall of 2019 and 2020, we announced that the Day after Thanksgiving would be a paid
holiday, and the plan was to announce this as an ongoing paid holiday in 2021. We also decided we
would add an eleventh as a floating holiday allowing our employees to choose a date with personal
meaning in their lives.
x With Juneteenth now designated as a Federal holiday, the recommendation is to make this our
eleventh paid City holiday, beginning in 2022 and announcing it this year. As we have a policy that
employees who work on a holiday per schedule or choice are allowed to use that earned day during
the calendar year, we are still providing the option for people to take a different day of meaning.
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