Tag: budget
FCSG Statement on Proposed 2021 City Budget and Follow-up Letter
The FCSG sent the statement below to City Council on October 7th. Council ended up not cutting the Air Quality or Climate Action Program budgets, and we sent the follow-up letter to council on November…
FCSG Statement on Proposed Biennial Budget and CAP
Posted on November 5, 2018 The Fort Collins Sustainability Group (FCSG) has been following the budgeting process closely since the City Manager’s Recommended Biennial Budget was released in late August. We are pleased to see…
Trump Budget Emphasizes Wrong Threats
Published in the Fort Collins Coloradoan on April 7, 2017 In the daily barrage of absurdities emanating from the Trump administration, the larger ones easily get lost among the smaller ones. Two examples of the…
FCSG Statement on 2017-18 Biennial Budget
Update posted on October 30, 2016 The Fort Collins Sustainability Group (FCSG) is pleased to see that a new budget offer for a 365-day-per-year transit service has been added to the City Manager’s original Recommended…
FCSG Statement on the Appropriation of General Fund Reserves for CAP Programs
Statement updated on July 24, 2016 On June 21st, City Council voted unanimously (5-0, with Gino Campana and Ray Martinez absent) on first reading to spend $1.545 Million from prior year reserves in the General…
FCSG Statement on Proposed Funding Delay for Energy Efficiency Programs
Statement updated on June 24, 2016 On June 7th, we learned that the Fort Collins Climate Action Plan (CAP) Executive Team planned to recommend against providing the additional funding needed to continue the City’s business…
FCSG Statement on Mid-Cycle Budget Offers for CAP Implementation
Statement updated on May 24, 2015 The Fort Collins Sustainability Group (FCSG) has been tracking City Council’s Six Month Agenda Planning Calendar closely since the April elections, and was pleased to see recently that Climate…
FCSG Statement on Climate Action Plan and On-Bill Financing
At its work session on October 28th, the Fort Collins City Council considered two items likely to have a significant impact on community-wide greenhouse gas emissions for years to come. The first item addressed strategies…
FCSG Statement on LED Street Lights and Vision for a Fossil-Free Future Budget Offers
Statement updated on October 21, 2014 The Fort Collins Sustainability Group (FCSG) strongly supports budget offers EH 61.1: LED Streetlight Replacement Program and EH 47.15: Community Engagement in a Vision for A Fossil-Free Future. We…
Fort Collins Should Reduce Carbon Footprint
Originally appeared in the Fort Collins Coloradoan on October 15, 2014 The Fort Collins Sustainability Group (FCSG) is a community group whose mission is to “develop and advocate a vision and strategy for becoming a…