Joint Letter on Draft 1041 Regulations
Posted on November 8th, 2022 Dear Mayor Arndt and City Council members: The undersigned environmental organizations, with members who reside, recreate, and otherwise utilize developed and undeveloped lands and resources within the City of Fort…
FCSG Statement on Ordinance 135-2022 Establishing the IQAP as an Ongoing Program
Statement posted on October 31, 2022 At the adoption of Time-Of-Day pricing for electricity in 2018, Fort Collins Utilities also implemented a pilot program called the Income-Qualified Assistance Program (IQAP). The purpose of this program…
FCSG Statement on Resolution 2022-108 Adopting an Interim Greenhouse Gas Reduction Goal
Statement updated on October 25, 2022 The Fort Collins Sustainability Group (FCSG) appreciates the fact that City Council will be considering an interim greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal on October 25th. We support the goal…
FCSG Statement on the Fort Collins 2023-2023 Recommended Budget
Posted on September 30th, 2022 The Fort Collins Sustainability Group (FCSG) has reviewed both the Fort Collins 2023-2024 Recommended Budget and the staff memorandum dated September 8th, 2022 analyzing the impact of the Recommended Budget…
FCSG Statement on Resolution 2022-094 Adopting an Interim Greenhouse Gas Reduction Goal
Statement updated on August 29, 2022 The Fort Collins Sustainability Group (FCSG) wishes to thank City Council for asking City staff to bring an interim greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal forward for Council’s consideration on…
Follow-up Letter to Fort Collins City Council on the Need for an Interim GHG Pollution Reduction Goal Resolution
Dear Mayor Arndt and Councilmembers Gutowsky, Pignataro, Canonico, Peel, Ohlson, and Francis – We know that you heard the 29 people who asked you during the public comment section of the council meeting on June…
FCSG Position Statement on Interim GHG Pollution Reduction Goal for the City of Fort Collins
The Fort Collins Sustainability Group (FCSG) began advocating for the City’s 2030 goal of 80% greenhouse gas (GHG) community pollution reductions compared to 2005 levels back in 2009. That goal was approved by City Council…
FCSG Statement on Our Climate Future and Sustainable Funding Plan Work Session Items
Posted on April 10, 2022 The Fort Collins Sustainability Group (FCSG) has reviewed the “Our Climate Future” and “Sustainable Funding Plan” work session items that City Council will address on Tuesday, 4/12. We are pleased…
FCSG Statement on Proposed 2022 Fort Collins Building Codes
Updated on March 8, 2022 The FCSG appreciates City Council’s support for adopting the 2021 ICC code with local amendments on first reading on February 15th. We believe that two additional amendments would both help…
Letter to City Council on Building Performance Standards
The Fort Collins Sustainability Group is appreciative of the City of Fort Collins’ Building Energy and Water Scoring Program (benchmarking), in which owners of commercial buildings greater than 5,000 square feet have been measuring and reporting their…