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HomeMy WebLinkAbout081 - 07/19/2016 - APPROPRIATING PRIOR YEAR RESERVES IN THE GENERAL FUND FOR 2016 PROJECTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE 2020 CLI ORDINANCE NO. 081, 2016 OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS ' APPROPRIATING PRIOR YEAR RESERVES IN THE GENERAL FUND FOR 2016 PROJECTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE 2020 CLIMATE ACTION PLAN (CAP) STRATEGIC PLAN WHEREAS, on March 3, 2015, City Council adopted Resolution 2015-030, updating community greenhouse gas goals and targets to be achieved by 2020, 2030, and 2050; and WHEREAS, staff has developed an implementation plan based on the accelerated goals of the Climate Action Plan ("CAP") and has identified several initiatives for immediate action and investment based on guidance provided by the City Council; and WHEREAS, on April 19, 2016, -City Council adopted Ordinance No. 046, 2016, appropriating funds toward four projects identified for immediate action and investment (1) Building energy Disclosure and Scoring, (2) CAP Program Support, (3) CAP Pilot Project/Innovation Fund, and (4) Biomass Burner Feasibility Study; and WHEREAS, 'two additional projects have been identified for immediate action and investment: (1) Solar Incentives and Rebates, and (2) Municipal Green Waste (Composting) Sites; and WHEREAS, appropriated, but unexpended and unencumbered, funds are available in 2016 from the Solar Purchase Power Program (SP3) and the Community Shared Solar program in the Light and Power fund to support the Solar Incentives and Rebates Program; and WHEREAS, staff is requesting $85,000 for the Municipal Green Waste (Composting) Site Initiative, including compost-turning equipment of$51,000 and other-expenses, outlined in the Draft 2020 Climate Action Plan (CAP) Strategic Plan, from funds accumulated during 2015 and prior years in the Waste Innovation Program account in the City's General Fund; and WHEREAS, the Municipal Green Waste (Composting) Site will enable municipal composting for organic landscape debris through a small-scale (100 tons/year) composting facility at the Hoffman Mill Road Crushing Facility, including site grading at the Hoffman Mill Road Crushing Facility, purchase of compost-turning equipment, and ongoing composting operations and management by the Streets Department; and WHEREAS, composting capability will increase landfill waste diversion by City departments that generate organic debris from municipal maintenance activities, including Parks, Streets, Forestry, Natural Areas, Stormwater, and Light and Power; and 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 _1_ WHEREAS, the WIP 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, a team of interdepartmental employees (the "WIP Team") acts as a liaison for incorporating waste reduction, promoting recycling strategies, and awarding WIP funds when requests are received from participating City departments; and WHEREAS, the WIP Team voted unanimously to recommend the funding request for the Municipal Green Waste (Composting) Site Initiative; and WHEREAS, the City has implemented certain energy efficiency programs identified in the 2020 Climate Action Plan (CAP) Strategic Plan ("Energy Efficiency Programs"), and has operated these programs using funds appropriated in the Light and Power Fund; and WHEREAS, the funds appropriated for the Energy Efficiency Programs for 2016 have been fully committed, preventing new participation in those Programs until such time as additional funds have been made available; and WHEREAS, Council desires to continue new participation in and ongoing implementation of the Energy Efficiency Programs as soon as practicable; 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 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 prior year reserves in the General Fund the sum of EIGHTY-FIVE THOUSAND ($85,000) for expenditure in the General Fund for the City of Fort Collins for the Municipal Green Waste (Composting) Site Initiative as part of the Waste Innovation Program. Section 3. That there is hereby appropriated from prior year reserves in the General Fund the sum of ONE MILLION FOUR HUNDRED SIXTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($1,460,000) for expenditure in the General Fund for Energy Efficiency Programs as described in the CAP Strategic Plan. -2- Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 21st day of June, A.D. 2016, and to be presented for final passage on the 19th day of July, A.D. 2016. �FORTC U o .......... DMayorl; ATTEST: W w , City Clerk . Passed and adopted on final reading on the 19th day of July, A.D. 2016. aE : Mayor ATTEST: OLoik City Clerk -3-