HomeMy WebLinkAbout054 - 05/02/2017 - APPROPRIATING PRIOR YEAR RESERVES IN THE GENERAL FUND FOR WASTE REDUCTION AND DIVERSION PROJECTS APP (2)ORDINANCE NO. 054, 2017
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 revenues collected 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 2017 to date four applications have been received (requesting $59,250 in
funding) for waste reduction/recycling projects, ranging from the purchase of soils
screening/recovery equipment to sanitizing systems that kill bed-bugs, which may be present in
mattresses and couches that are "dumped" on City rights-of-way, thereby enabling some of these
articles of furniture to be put back into use; and
WHEREAS, staff proposals that are submitted to the Waste Innovation Program during
the remainder of 2017 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, City staff have 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 FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($150,000) 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 18th day of
April, A.D. 2017, and to be presented for final passage on the 2nd day of May, A.D. 2017.
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Passed and adopted on final reading on the 2nd day of May, A.D. 2017.
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