HomeMy WebLinkAbout050 - 04/15/2014 - APPROPRIATING PRIOR YEAR RESERVES IN THE GENERAL FUND FOR WASTE REDUCTION AND DIVERSION PROJECTS TO ORDINANCE NO. 050, 2014
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING PRIOR YEAR RESERVES IN THE GENERAL FUND
FOR WASTE REDUCTION AND DIVERSION PROJECTS TO BE APPROVED
THROUGH THE WASTE INNOVATION PROGRAM
WHEREAS, in 2010, the City created the Waste Innovation Program (the "WIP") to
offer 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, WIP Funds are held in a General Fund Reserve account until awarded; and
WHEREAS, employees on an interdepartmental team administer the WIP funds and act
as liaisons for incorporating waste reduction and promoting recycling strategies when requests
are received from participating City departments; and
WHEREAS, multiple waste reduction and diversion projects have been submitted to the
WIP team for review for funding in 2014; 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 I
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
FORT COLLINS that there is hereby appropriated for expenditure from prior year reserves in
the General Fund the sum of EIGHTEEN THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED NINETY FOUR
DOLLARS ($18,794) for waste reduction and diversion projects to be approved and
administered through the Waste Innovation Program.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 1st day of
April, A.D. 2014, and to be presented for final passage on the 15th day of April, A.D. 2014.
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Passed and adopted on final reading on the 15th day of April, A.D. 2014.
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