HomeMy WebLinkAbout176 - 12/07/1999 - APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED REVENUE IN THE BENEFITS FUND TO COVER MEDICAL INSURANCE CLAIMS AND OTHER ORDINANCE NO. 176, 1999
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED REVENUE IN THE BENEFITS FUND
TO COVER MEDICAL INSURANCE CLAIMS AND OTHER EXPENSES
WHEREAS,the City of Fort Collins, through the Benefits Fund, provides employees with
a full flexible benefit package including choices in insurance plans for health, life, vision, dental,
long-term disability,and accidental death and dismemberment insurance;health care and dependent
care reimbursement accounts; employee assistance program: and other benefits; and
WHEREAS, the City is self-insured for employee health care benefits, collecting revenues
associated with providing medical insurance to employees and budgets for the payment of all
medical insurance claims, including administration costs for claims processing; and
WHEREAS,for 1999,Benefits Fund expenditures are projected to exceed the appropriations
budgeted by $250,000, and revenues collected are projected to exceed estimated revenue by
$350,000; and
WHEREAS, staff is recommending that an additional $250,000 be appropriated from
unanticipated revenue in the Benefits Fund to be used to cover the additional expenditures projected
through year-end; and
WHEREAS, Article V, Section 9, of the Charter of the City of Fort Collins(the "Charter")
permits the City Council to make supplemental appropriations by ordinance at any time during the
fiscal year,provided that the total amount of such appropriations, in combination with all previous
appropriations for that fiscal year,do not exceed the then current estimate of actual and anticipated
revenues to be received during the fiscal year; and
WHEREAS, it is the desire of City Council to appropriate the sum of $250,000 from
unanticipated revenue in the Benefits Fund to be used to cover the additional expenditures projected
through year-end 1999.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS that there is hereby appropriated for expenditure from unanticipated revenue in the
Benefits Fund, the sum of TWO HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($250,000),
representing Benefits Fund revenue received,in excess of projections,to be used to cover additional
expenditures projected through year-end 1999.
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Mayor
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City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading this 7th day of December. A.D. 1999.
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City Clerk