HomeMy WebLinkAbout005 - 02/06/2024 - AUTHORIZING TRANSFERS OF APPROPRIATIONS AND APPROPRIATING RELATED FUNDS FOR THE TIMBERLINE RECYCLINGORDINANCE NO.005,2024
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
AUTHORIZING TRANSFERS OF APPROPRIATIONS AND
APPROPRIATING RELATED FUNDS FOR THE
TIMBERLINE RECYCLING CENTER INFRASTRUCTURE
AND EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENTS
A.The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (“CDPHE”)
administers the Front Range Waste Diversion grant program,which is available to
communities on Colorado’s Front Range to support recycling and composting.
B.CDPHE has awarded the City of Fort Collins a Front Range Waste
Diversion grant of $294,853,in reimbursement funding,with a City match of $28,393,to
support the City’s Timberline Recycling Center (the “Grant”).The City will use the Grant
to procure and install:a new cardboard compactor;three new roll-off bins;an internet
fiber connection;security cameras;an equipment storage shed;a battery storage
container;new platforms for accessing recycling containers;and accessibility
improvements to the recycling containers.
C.The City Council supports the goals of the Grant including to improve the
capacity of the Timberline Recycling Center,and through this Ordinance seeks to
appropriate sufficient funds to reach those goals as detailed in the City’s agreement with
CDPHE,which has been executed by the City Manager on behalf of the City.
D.All of the funds appropriated in this Ordinance for the Project are ineligible
for use in the APP Program due to restrictions placed on them by the Front Range Waste
Diversion grant program.
E.The funds being transferred from the Capital Projects Fund to the Grants
Business Unit in the General Fund are ineligible for use in the APP Program due to
previously being used for the contribution in a prior appropriation.
F.This appropriation benefits the public health,safety and welfare of the
residents of Fort Collins and serves the public purpose of improving public recycling
facilities.
G.Article V,Section 9 of the City Charter permits the City Council,upon
recommendation of the City Manager,to make a supplemental appropriation by ordinance
at any time during the fiscal year,provided that the total amount of such supplemental
appropriation,in combination with all previous appropriations for that fiscal year,do not
exceed the current estimate of actual and anticipated revenues and all other funds to be
received during the fiscal year.
H.The City Manager has recommended the appropriation described herein
and determined that this appropriation is available and previously unappropriated from
the General Fund and will not cause the total amount appropriated in the General Fund
to exceed the current estimate of actual and anticipated revenues and all other funds to
be received in this Fund during this fiscal year.
I.Article V,Section 10 of the City Charter authorizes the City Council,upon
recommendation by the City Manager,to transfer by ordinance any unexpended and
unencumbered appropriated amount or portion thereof from one fund or capital project to
another fund or capital project,provided that the purpose for which the transferred funds
are to be expended remains unchanged,the purpose for which the funds were initially
appropriated no longer exists,or the proposed transfer is from a fund or capital project in
which the amount appropriated exceeds the amount needed to accomplish the purpose
specified in the appropriation ordinance.
J.The City Manager has recommended the transfer of $28,393 from the
Integrated Recycling Facility project in the Capital Projects Fund to the General Fund and
determined that the purpose for which the transferred funds are to be expended remains
unchanged.
K.Article V,Section 11 of the City Charter authorizes the City Council to
designate in the ordinance when appropriating funds for a federal,state or private grant,
that such appropriation shall not lapse at the end of the fiscal year in which the
appropriation is made,but continue until the earlier of the expiration of the federal,state
or private grant or donation or the City’s expenditure of all funds received from such grant
or donation.
L.The City Council wishes to designate the appropriation herein for the Front
Range Waste Diversion grant as an appropriation that shall not lapse until the earlier of
the expiration of the grant or the City’s expenditure of all funds received from such grant.
In light of the foregoing recitals,which the Council hereby makes and adopts as
determinations and findings,BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
FORT COLLINS as follows:
Section 1.There is hereby appropriated from new revenue or other funds in the
General Fund the sum of TWO HUNDRED NINETY-FOUR THOUSAND EIGHT
HUNDRED FIFTY-THREE DOLLARS ($294,853)to be expended in the General Fund
for the Timberline Recycling Center Infrastructure and Efficiency Improvements.
Section 2.The unexpended and unencumbered appropriated amount of
TWENTY-EIGHT THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED NINETY-THREE DOLLARS
($28,393)is authorized for transfer from the Integrated Recycling Facility project in the
Capital Projects Fund to the Timberline Recycling Center Infrastructure and Efficiency
Improvements project in the General Fund and appropriated therein to be expended for
improvements at the Timberline Recycling Center.
Section 3.The appropriation herein for the Front Range Waste Diversion grant
is hereby designated,as authorized in Article V,Section 11 of the City Charter,as an
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appropriation that shall not lapse at the end of this fiscal year but continue until the earlier
of the expiration of the grant or the City’s expenditure of all funds received from such
grant.
Introduced,considered favorably on first reading on January 16,2024,and
approved on second reading for final passage on February 6,2024.
Interim City Clerk
Effective Date:February 16,2024
Approving Attorney:Ted Hewitt
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