HomeMy WebLinkAbout163 - 12/03/2013 - APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED GRANT REVENUE IN THE GENERAL FUND FOR THE NATURAL RESOURCES RADON PROGRA ORDINANCE NO. 163, 2013
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED GRANT REVENUE IN THE
GENERAL FUND FOR THE NATURAL RESOURCES RADON PROGRAM
AND AUTHORIZING THE TRANSFER OF MATCHING FUNDS
PREVIOUSLY APPROPRIATED IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES
OPERATING BUDGET
WHEREAS, the Fort Collins Environmental Services Radon Program (the "Program") is
part of the City's indoor air quality initiative; and
WHEREAS, the Program is guided by the City's Air Quality Plan and has a policy goal
of educating and encouraging residents to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution; and
WHEREAS, the Program currently includes aggressive education; a voluntary radon
testing program, and a mandatory radon mitigation in new construction; and
WHEREAS, in addition, City Code Section 12-111 requires the distribution of radon
information to all residential home-buyers at point-of-sale; and
WHEREAS, the City has received a grant from the Colorado Department of Public
Health and Environment ("CDPHE") in the amount of$4,973 to support programming to lower
the lung-cancer risk of Fort Collins residents through radon activities identified in two 2013 City
Budget offers: Air Quality Improvement and the Radon Mitigation Behavioral Study; and
WHEREAS, the CDPHE grant requires $4,973 of matching funds, which have been
included in the 2013 Environmental Services budget and are available for transfer to the
Program; and
WHEREAS, Article V, Section 9, of the City Charter permits the City Council to make
supplemental appropriations by ordinance at any time during the fiscal year, provided the total
amount of such supplemental appropriations, in combination with all previous appropriations for
that fiscal year, does not exceed the current estimate of actual and anticipated revenues to be
received during the fiscal year; and
WHEREAS, City staff has determined that the appropriation of the CDHE grant funds as
described herein will not cause the total amount appropriated in the General Fund to exceed the
current estimate of actual and anticipated revenues to be received in that fund during the fiscal
year; and
WHEREAS, Article V, Section 10, of the City Charter authorizes the City Council to
transfer by ordinance any unexpected and unencumbered amount or portion thereof from one
project to another project, provided the purpose for which the transferred funds are to be
expended remains unchanged.
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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
FORT COLLINS as follows:
Section 1. That there is hereby appropriated from unanticipated grant revenue in the
General Fund the sum of FOUR THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED SEVENTY THREE
DOLLARS ($4,973) for expenditure in the General Fund for the Environmental Services Radon
Program.
Section 2. That the unexpended appropriated amount of FOUR THOUSAND NINE
HUNDRED SEVENTY THREE DOLLARS ($4,973) is hereby authorized for transfer from the
2013 Natural Resources operating budget in the General Fund to the Environmental Services
Radon Program, in fulfillment of CDPHE grant requirements, and appropriated herein.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 19th day of
November, A.D. 2013, and to be presented for final passage on the 3rd day of December, A.D.
2013.
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Passed and adopted on final reading on the 3rd day of December, A.D. 2013.
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