HomeMy WebLinkAbout077 - 06/18/2013 - APPROPRIATING PRIOR YEAR RESERVES IN THE GENERAL FUND FOR WASTE REDUCTION AND DIVERSION PROJECTS APP ORDINANCE NO. 077, 2013
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
APPROPRIATING PRIOR YEAR RESERVES IN THE GENERAL FUND
FOR WASTE REDUCTION AND DIVERSION PROJECTS APPROVED
BY 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 to pay
for projects that improve the City's ability to divert waste from municipal activities from being
disposed of in the Larimer County Landfill; and
WHEREAS, the funds are used to administer grants that allow City departments to initiate
new waste diversion and recycling projects with emphasis on departments that have larger quantities
of waste that is self-hauled to the Larimer County Landfill; and
WHEREAS, an interdepartmental group of employees participate as liaisons for
incorporating waste reduction into Citypractices,promoting recycling strategies,and awarding WIP
funds when requests are received from participating City departments; and
WHEREAS, the group has approved one major project for 2013 by the Water Utilities
Stormwater Division ("Utilities") including the processing of waste materials into a variety of soil
and structural fill products; and
WHEREAS, the project will reduce Utilities' landfill usage from about 11,000 cubic yards
per year down to approximately 5,000 cubic yards per year; and
WHEREAS, other waste reduction and diversion projects are ready for review for possible
WIP funding; 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.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS that there is hereby appropriated for expenditure from prior year reserves in the General
Fund the sum of ONE HUNDRED THIRTY FIVE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED SIXTY
DOLLARS($135,560)for waste reduction and diversion projects approved bythe Waste Innovation
Program.
Introduced,considered favorably on first reading,and ordered published this 4th day of June,
A.D. 2013, and to be presented for final passage on the 18th day of June, A.D. 2013.
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Passed and adopted on final reading on the 18th day of June, A.D. 2013!
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