HomeMy WebLinkAbout040 - 04/02/2024 - Making a Supplemental Appropriation in the General Fund of Grant Funds from the Colorado DepartmentORDINANCE NO.040,2024
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
MAKING A SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION IN THE
GENERAL FUND OF GRANT FUNDS FROM THE COLORADO
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT AND
APPROPRIATING PRIOR YEAR RESERVES IN THE WATER
FUND TO SUPPORT TRANSITIONING CITY FOSSIL FUEL
VEHICLES TO CLEAN ENERGY VEHICLES
A.The City’s Operation Services Department applied for,and has been
awarded,a $910,000 Clean Fleet Enterprise Grant from the Colorado Department of
Public Health and Environment (the “Grant”).
B.The City can request the Grant funds through February 14,2029,as
reimbursement for a portion of the cost of purchasing clean energy vehicles.The vehicles
the City intends to purchase include one electric street sweeper,five electric light duty
pickups,and four renewable natural gas dump trucks at a total estimated cost of
$2,010,000.
C.The City would cover the remaining $1.1 million of the purchase price for
the vehicles from existing 2024 appropriated funds in the General Fund,Light and Power
Fund,Water Fund,and Stormwater Fund,plus $96,504 to be appropriated from Water
Fund reserves,based on which departments would be using the vehicles.
D.These appropriations benefit the public health,safety and welfare of the
residents of Fort Collins and serve the public purpose of reducing greenhouse gas
emissions to achieve maximum air quality benefits for the people of Fort Collins and
Colorado.
E.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.
F.Article V,Section 9 of the City Charter also permits the City Council,upon
the recommendation of the City Manager,to make supplemental appropriations 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.
S.The City Manager has recommended the appropriations described herein
and determined that these appropriations are available and previously unappropriated
from the General Fund and the Water Fund and will not cause the total amount
appropriated in either Fund,as applicable,to exceed the current estimate of actual and
anticipated revenues and all other funds to be received in these Funds during this fiscal
year.
H.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.
The City Council wishes to designate the appropriation herein from the
Clean Fleet Vehicle and Technology (“CFVT”)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 HUNDRED TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS ($910,000)to
be expended in the General Fund for the purchase of clean energy vehicles.
Section 2.There is hereby appropriated from prior year reserves in the Water
Fund the sum of NINETY-SIX THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED FOUR DOLLARS ($96,504)
to be expended in the Water Fund for the purchase of a clean energy vehicle.
Section 3.The appropriation herein for the CFVT 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 March 19,2024,and approved
on second reading for final passage on April 2,2024.
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Chief Deputy
Effective Date:April 12,2024
Approving Attorney:Ingrid Decker
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City Clerk