HomeMy WebLinkAbout093 - 09/06/2022 - MAKING SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS IN THE GENERAL FUND FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES AIR QUALITY PRORDINANCE NO. 093, 2022
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
MAKING SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS IN THE GENERAL FUND FOR THE
ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES AIR QUALITY PROGRAM FROM THE
US ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY GRANT
WHEREAS, the City of Fort Collins has been awarded a grant in the amount of $108,200
(the "Grant") by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) associated with the American
Rescue Plan Act to support local monitoring of national air quality standard (NAAQS) pollutants
in and near communities with environmental justice concerns who face disproportionate exposure
to such pollutants and resulting health risks, as well as increased vulnerability to COVID-19; and
VX] IEREAS, the City Manager or their designee is authorized under City Code Section I-
22 to execute an agreement between the City and the EPA required in connection with the award
of the Grant; and
WHEREAS the Grant will fund the purchase of new air quality monitoring equipment
("Equipment") to be installed in a new criteria pollutant monitoring site ("Site") to supplement the
two existing regulatory ozone monitors currently operated by the City's Environmental Services
Air Quality Program; and
WHEREAS, while no matching funds are required under the Grant, installation of the Site
in which the Equipment will be located will be completed using appropriated funds made available
under the 2022 enhancements to the City's Air Quality Monitoring budget (BFO Offer 48.15); and
WHEREAS, the purchase and installation of the Equipment and the Site directly supports
Council Priority # 17, Improved Air Quality, protects the health, safety and welfare of Fort Collins'
residents and is in the best interest the City and its residents; and
WHEREAS, this appropriation benefits public health, safety and welfare of the residents
of Fort Collins and serves the public purpose of improving air quality for City residents; and
WHEREAS, Article V, Section 9 of the City Charter permits the City Council, upon
recommendation of the City Manager, to make supplemental appropriations by ordinance at any
time during the fiscal year, provided that 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 and all other funds to be received during the fiscal year;
and
WHEREAS, the City Manager has recommended the appropriation described herein and
determined that this appropriation is available and previously unappropriated from the General
Fund and will not cause the total amount appropriated in the General Fund to exceed the current
estimate of actual and anticipated revenues and all other funds to be received in that Fund during
this fiscal year; and
WHEREAS, Article V, Section 11 of the City Charter authorizes the City Council to
designate in the ordinance when appropriating funds for a federal, state or private grant, that such
appropriation shall not lapse at the end of the fiscal year in which the appropriation is made, but
continue until the earlier of the expiration of the federal, state or private grant or the City's
expenditure of all funds received from such grant; and
WHEREAS, the City Council wishes to designate the appropriation herein from the US
Environmental Protection Agency Grant for the Environmental Services Air Quality Program as
an appropriation that shall not lapse until the earlier of the expiration of the grant or the City's
expenditure of all funds received from such grant.
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 from new revenue or other funds in the
General Fund the sum of ONE HUNDRED EIGHT THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS
($108,200) for the Environmental Services Indoor Air Quality Program.
Section 3. That the appropriation herein for the US Environmental Protection Agency
Grant for the Environmental Services Air Quality Program is hereby designated, as authorized in
Article V, Section I 1 of the City Charter, as an appropriation that shall not lapse at the end of this
fiscal year but continue until the earlier of the expiration of the grant or the City's expenditure of
all funds received from such grant.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading
August, A.D. 2022, and to be presentefinal passage]
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Passed and adopted on final reading this 6th
ATTEST:
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