HomeMy WebLinkAbout044 - 04/03/2018 - APPROPRIATING PRIOR YEAR RESERVES IN THE GENERAL FUND FOR WASTE REDUCTION AND DIVERSION PROJECTS APP ORDINANCE NO. 044, 2018
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING PRIOR YEAR RESERVES IN THE GENERAL
FUND FOR WASTE REDUCTION AND DIVERSION PROJECTS
APPROVED AS PART OF THE WASTE INNOVATION PROGRAM
WHEREAS, in 2010, the City created the Waste Innovation Program (the "WIP") fund
where funds for the program are held in a reserve account in the General Fund; and
WHEREAS, the funds are used to administer 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, an interdepartmental group of employees reviews proposals for incorporating
waste reduction, promoting recycling strategies, and awarding funds when requests are received
from participating City departments; and
WHEREAS, in 2018 to date five applications have been received (requesting $38,406 in
funding) for waste reduction/recycling projects, ranging from increasing waste receptors in parks
to a research-based pilot project to repurpose alum "flocculent', which is a by-product from the
Water Treatment plant; and
WHEREAS, staff proposals that are submitted to the Waste Innovation Program during the
remainder of 2018 will continue to be competitively reviewed and additional projects that are
approved will be eligible for funding from the Waste Innovation Program; 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
WHEREAS, the Financial Officer has determined that the appropriations as described
herein are available and previously unappropriated in the General Fund.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS as follows:
Section 1. That the City Council hereby makes and adopts the determinations and
findings contained in the recitals set forth above.
Section 2. That there is hereby appropriated for expenditure from prior year reserves
in the General Fund the sum ONE HUNDRED ELEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS ($111,000)
for waste reduction and diversion projects to be approved as part of the Waste Innovation Program.
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Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 20th day of
March, A.D. 2018, and to be presented for final passage on the 3rd day of April, A.D. 2018.
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