HomeMy WebLinkAbout004 - 02/06/2024 - AUTHORIZING TRANSFERS OF APPROPRIATIONS AND APPROPRIATING RELATED FUNDS FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICORDINANCE NO.004,2024
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
AUTHORIZING TRANSFERS OF APPROPRIATIONS AND
APPROPRIATING RELATED FUNDS FOR THE
ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES RADON PROGRAM
A.The City has been awarded a Colorado Department of Public Health and
Environment grant in the amount of $9,000 for the Environmental Services Radon
Program (the “Program”).
B.The grant will be used to support radon testing and mitigation programs.
C.The grant requires $6,000 in matching funds from the City,which have been
appropriated and are available in the General Fund for this purpose.
D.Radon is a priority indoor air quality pollutant in Fort Collins and is the
leading cause of lung cancer in non-smokers.
E.Radon tests show that sixty-five percent of homes in Fort Collins test higher
than the Environmental Protection Agency’s defined “action levels”for mitigating radon
gas.
F.The Program provides education and outreach to raise awareness of the
health risks and provides low-cost radon test kits to residents.
G.This appropriation benefits public health,safety,and welfare of the citizens
of Fort Collins and serves a public purpose by helping to raise awareness about radon in
Fort Collins homes.
H.Article V,Section 9 of the City Charter permits the City Council,upon
recommendation of the City Manager,to make a supplemental appropriation by ordinance
at any time during the fiscal year,provided that the total amount of such supplemental
appropriation,in combination with all previous appropriations for that fiscal year,do not
exceed the current estimate of actual and anticipated revenues and all other funds to be
received during the fiscal year.
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 this Fund during this fiscal year.
J.Article V,Section 10 of the City Charter authorizes the City Council,upon
recommendation by the City Manager,to transfer by ordinance any unexpended and
unencumbered appropriated amount or portion thereof from one fund or capital project to
another fund or capital project,provided that the purpose for which the transferred funds
are to be expended remains unchanged,the purpose for which the funds were initially
appropriated no longer exists,or the proposed transfer is from a fund or capital project in
which the amount appropriated exceeds the amount needed to accomplish the purpose
specified in the appropriation ordinance.
K.The City Manager has recommended the transfer of $6,000 from the
Environmental Services operating budget in the General Fund to the Environmental
Services Radon Program in the General Fund and determined that the purpose for which
the transferred funds are to be expended remains unchanged.
L.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 donation or the City’s expenditure of all funds received from such grant
or donation.
M.The City Council wishes to designate the appropriation herein for the
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment grant 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.
In light of the foregoing recitals,which the Council hereby makes and adopts as
determinations and findings,BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
FORT COLLINS as follows:
Section 1.There is hereby appropriated from new revenue or other funds in the
General Fund the sum of NINE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($9,000)to be expended in the
General Fund for the Environmental Services Radon Program.
Section 2.The unexpended and unencumbered appropriated amount of SIX
THOUSAND DOLLARS ($6,000)is authorized for transfer from the Environmental
Services operating budget in the General Fund to the Environmental Services Radon
Program in the General Fund.
Section 3.The appropriation herein for the Colorado Department of Public
Health and Environment grant is hereby designated,as authorized in Article V.Section
11 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 on January 16,2024,and
approved on second reading for final passage an February 6,2024.
Interim City Clerk
Effective Date:February 16,2024
Approving Attorney:Ted Hewitt
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