HomeMy WebLinkAbout116 - 07/07/1998 - APPROPRIATING PRIOR YEAR SAVINGS REALIZED FROM INCREASED PRODUCTIVITY AND OPERATING EFFICIENCIES ORDINANCE NO. 116, 1998
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING PRIOR YEAR SAVINGS REALIZED FROM
INCREASED PRODUCTIVITY AND OPERATING EFFICIENCIES
WHEREAS,Article V, Section 9 of the Charter of the City of Fort Collins 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, in 1992, the City Council adopted the Service Productivity Incentive Policy
which allows managers to save unspent annual appropriations that result from increases in
productivity and use the savings in subsequent years upon approval of the Council; and
WHEREAS,service programs had savings at the end of 1997 which resulted from operating
efficiencies and increases in productivity; and
WHEREAS, the City's Financial and Management Policies require as a condition for
expenditure of productivity savings that annual General Fund revenue collections must be equal to
or exceed projected budget revenue; and
WHEREAS, 1997 General Fund revenue collections exceeded the 1997 projected budget
revenue; and
WHEREAS,the 1997 savings has been separately accounted for in a General Fund reserve
designated for Productivity Savings; and
WHEREAS, some of the service programs are now requesting the use of their savings for
items which will improve their delivery of service; and
WHEREAS,the City Manager has reviewed the requests for use of savings and recommends
Council approval of the same.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS that there is hereby appropriated for expenditure from productivity savings prior year
reserves in the General Fund the total sum of ONE MILLION EIGHTY-NINE THOUSAND THREE
HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS ($1,089,325) to be allocated as follows:
City Attorney $ 8,930
City Manager 39,630
Information Technology 192,740
Neighborhood Resources 10,042
Facilities 15,600
Finance 649,807
Cultural, Library & Recreational Services-Admin. 1,755
Library 26,234
Parks Planning & Development 15,883
Forestry & Landscaping 1,130
CPES Administration 23,000
Advance Planning 4,302
Building & Zoning 31,272
Current Planning 5,000
Development Tracking System 64,000
Total $1,089,325
Introduced, considered favorable on first reading, and ordered published this 16th day of
June, A.D. 1998, and to be presented for final passage on the 7th day of July, A.D. 1998.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading this 7th day of July, A.D. 1998.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk