2022 Budget
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Help Shape the City’s Budget
Throughout the summer and fall, there will be a variety of ways you can weigh in on your priorities for the community, as well as specific funding proposals. Even if you only have a few minutes, your input matters.
Have 1 minute?
- Bookmark this page to check back for new engagement opportunities
- Follow the City of Fort Collins on social media for the latest information throughout the budget process
Have 5 minutes?
- Click the “One Thing” tab below to tell us what’s most important to you
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Esta información está disponible en español a continuación.
Help Shape the City’s Budget
Throughout the summer and fall, there will be a variety of ways you can weigh in on your priorities for the community, as well as specific funding proposals. Even if you only have a few minutes, your input matters.
Have 1 minute?
- Bookmark this page to check back for new engagement opportunities
- Follow the City of Fort Collins on social media for the latest information throughout the budget process
Have 5 minutes?
- Click the “One Thing” tab below to tell us what’s most important to you
- Watch one of our Budget overview videos to learn more about the process
Have 10 minutes?
- Click the “Priorities” tab below to review the City’s strategic outcomes and let us know if the pandemic has shifted these priorities for you
- Click the “Submit Your Ideas” tab below to give us your funding suggestions within the City’s strategic outcomes
Have 20+ minutes?
- Click the “Outcome Surveys” tab below to dive deeper into each outcome area and share your funding ideas to help meet your community priorities.
Want to host this conversation with your organization, friends or other group? Check out the Budget Engagement Toolkit in the Document Library for materials you can use.
Prefer to have City staff meet with your group? Email aresseguie@fcgov.com to schedule.
Ayude a determinar el presupuesto de la Ciudad
Durante el verano y el otoño, habrá varias formas en las que puede opinar sobre sus prioridades para la comunidad, así como sus propuestas de financiamiento específicas. Incluso si solo tiene unos minutos, sus comentarios son importantes.
¿Tiene 1 minuto?
- Añada esta página a sus favoritos para volver a consultar nuevas oportunidades de participación
- Siga a la Ciudad de Fort Collins en las redes sociales para obtener la información más reciente durante el proceso presupuestario
¿Tiene 5 minutos?
- Haga clic en la pestaña “One Thing (Una cosa)” a continuación para decirnos qué es lo más importante para usted
- Vea uno de nuestros videos de información general sobre el presupuesto para obtener más información sobre el proceso
¿Tiene 10 minutos?
- Haga clic en la pestaña “Priorities (Prioridades)” a continuación para revisar los resultados estratégicos de la Ciudad y hacernos saber si la pandemia ha cambiado estas prioridades para usted
- Haga clic en la pestaña “Submit Your Ideas (Enviar sus ideas)” a continuación para darnos sus sugerencias de financiamiento dentro de los resultados estratégicos de la Ciudad
¿Tiene más de 20 minutos?
- Haga clic en la pestaña “Outcome Surveys (Encuestas de resultados)” a continuación para explorar más a fondo cada área de resultados y compartir sus ideas de financiamiento para ayudar a cumplir con las prioridades de su comunidad
¿Quiere hablar con su equipo, amigos, o cualquier otro grupo acerca de las ofertas presupuestarias? Consulte el Kit de herramientas de participación presupuestaria en la biblioteca de documentos para ver los materiales que puede utilizar.
¿Prefiere que el personal de la ciudad se reúna con su grupo? Envíe un correo electrónico a aresseguie@fcgov.com para programar una junta.
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over 2 years agoCLOSED: This ideas has concluded.e.mcallalmost 3 years agoNo funding for the racist 1619 Project and CRT. No funding tor "equity' in any form. No funding for anything labeled "sustainable".
Lower taxes across the board.
12 comments0lprescott720almost 3 years agoResources for the homeless, and police officer accountability towards civilians.
0 comment3grubsrofalmost 3 years agoPlease expand public transportation. The increase in population and traffic make it a necessity. The more convenient the more usage.
1 comment4cedelenalmost 3 years agoBetter support for homeless population
We need to find a way to stop criminalizing poverty and finding ways to help the homeless population live with dignity and independence. Perhaps a campground with bathroom facilities for those who don't want to live in public housing? They need more support to get jobs, get off the street (if they want to) and have the ability to make decisions for themselves.
1 comment2cowormmanalmost 3 years agofood security.
How much food can we produce for ourselves locally as a community in case of other unforeseen disruptions in supplies and transportation thereof. Nature as we've been reminded on multiple fronts as of recent, bats last.
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Neighborhood Livability & Social Health / Habitabilidad y salud social dentro de la comunidad
over 2 years agoCLOSED: This ideas has concluded.In the Neighborhood Livability & Social Health Outcome, what kinds of services would you like to see funded?
Like someone else’s idea? Click on the heart to help us see which ones have the most support.
En el Resultado Habitabilidad y salud social dentro de la comunidad, ¿qué tipos de servicios le gustaría que se financiaran?
¿Le gusta la idea de otra persona? Haga clic en el corazón para ayudarnos a ver cuáles tienen más apoyo.
FoCoNickover 2 years agoCreate zoning rules and set aside land for tiny home communities + tiny homes as ADUs for infill along primary transit corridors
1 comment0PeterMOneillover 2 years agoUnify our community by promoting the use of our common language, English, in all but emergency situations.
Save money and clarify communication by removing multilingual publications and meeting translation that only benefit a small minority while confusing and delaying everyone else. Instead, direct those in need to English learning resources or even fund English language instruction.
0 comment0Barefootmegover 2 years agoFind creative solutions that provide increased density throughout town, not just downtown and around CSU.
We've been getting a lot of large scale apartments added to downtown and around CSU, but it would be great to find ways to encourage smaller projects that increase density, but that are owned locally. Many of these large apartment builders are from outside of Fort Collins. Encouraging smaller scale projects that could be owned by individuals or smaller locally owned companies might give us more incremental growth that helps retain a sense of place and our "small town charm" while still adding the housing that we desperately need. We also need to be better integrating small commercial centers throughout our neighborhoods so that neighbors can walk to, and meet up at, the neighborhood cafe/brewpub/etc. Corner stores would enable folks to walk or bike to grab a gallon of milk. Northeast and Southeast Fort Collins are food desserts, as well as "hang out with the neighbors" desserts. Small commercial developments could help tremendously in these areas. And Midtown is soooo centrally located, and yet so sprawling. It really needs to share more of the burden of housing our residents. Those funky backyards with spaces that residents never use could become flag lots for tiny homes. We've got to stop letting motor vehicles determine how we build our City and instead put the power in the hands of local residents to incrementally and creatively add spaces for housing, small businesses, and community interaction.
0 comment0ccalmost 3 years agoCleaning up/reducing waste
The stream near and along Mason Trail is full of garbage and it often stinks. For many people in south FoCo this is a vital trail for recreation and connectivity because other surrounding roads are not very safe for bikers and walkers like Harmony, Shields, etc. would love to see it cleaner. Would also love a low cost city-wide composting plan to opt into for residents. Takoma Park, MD is a model of this and other clean/eco initiatives.
0 comment1plantalmost 3 years agoNeeds based assistance
Further resources for those in need of a home, short term financial assistance, a job or income
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Culture & Recreation / Cultura y recreación
over 2 years agoCLOSED: This ideas has concluded.In the Culture & Recreation Outcome, what kinds of services would you like to see funded?
Like someone else’s idea? Click on the heart to help us see which ones have the most support.
En el Resultado Cultura y recreación, ¿qué tipos de servicios le gustaría que se financiaran?
¿Le gusta la idea de otra persona? Haga clic en el corazón para ayudarnos a ver cuáles tienen más apoyo.
Kevin Krausealmost 3 years agoBreak down natural areas/parks/other dept silos to deliver outdoor recreation plan desired by citizens that includes more nearby trail miles
2 comments0FoCoNickover 2 years agoConnect North East Fort Collins to bike lane + sidewalk network
+ Collaborate with Larimer County to augment safety along Country Club Road - a primary path to Tavelli Elementary School.
0 comment0THSover 2 years agoPlant More Trees
I encourage City Council to increase the budget for the Forestry Department so more trees can be planted city-wide. The urban tree canopy contributes to our quality of life during the warmer months. Please consider offering the citizens a "treebate" program that provides a financial incentive for folks to plant trees on private property. This is done in Des Moines, IA apparently with great success.
0 comment1plantalmost 3 years agoEducation and licensing for wilderness access
Decrease the harmful effects of human activity on wilderness while raising money to sustain and conserve what we have.
0 comment1MSalmost 3 years agoClose the street in front of City Park Pool and add a drop-off area as recommended by City staff and the City Park Tomorrow Design Workshop
Why is there no 2022 Budget BFO offer to address major life/safety issues in City Park? Inasmuch as Council is ultimately responsible for protecting the health, safety, and welfare of the public, all improvements to City Park identified in the City Park Tomorrow Master Plan that address this fundamental responsibility should be funded before funding improvements that do not address life/safety concerns, to wit, the current $5M 2022 Budget BFO offer 41.3 City Park Train and Tennis & Pickleball Courts Improvements. At the October 22, 2019 City Council meeting, city staff made the following recommendation to Council regarding the phasing of projects identified in the City Park Tomorrow Master Plan - this recommendation was endorsed by 80% of the City Park Design Workshop participants and broadly supported by the community at large: "For a first phase project, staff recommends construction Project B [Pool drop-off and street closure]...This option was very popular among design workshop participants and community members and will improve pedestrian safety and connectivity for park and pool users." Council ultimately decided to fund another critical health, safety, and welfare improvement identified by staff, City Park Design Workshop participants, and community members: new restrooms. This project has been completed. Address the major life/safety issues in City Park before funding any other improvement projects.
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Economic Health / Salud económica
over 2 years agoCLOSED: This ideas has concluded.In the Economic Health Outcome, what kinds of services would you like to see funded?
Like someone else’s idea? Click on the heart to help us see which ones have the most support.
En el Resultado Salud económica, ¿qué tipos de servicios le gustaría que se financiaran?
¿Le gusta la idea de otra persona? Haga clic en el corazón para ayudarnos a ver cuáles tienen más apoyo.
Barefootmegover 2 years agoNoCo Market online
One of the neatest things that I saw develop during the pandemic was a Northern Colorado marketplace online where small businesses could post their information and residents could get a better sense of the locally owned businesses that they should be supporting. I would love to see Fort Collins spearhead a project that included Wellington, Laporte, Loveland, etc.; in association with all of the related Chambers of Commerce; that would create and manage a website through which local residents could find local shops selling whatever it is they're looking for. The website could give a brief description of what the shops carried with a link to their website or FB page. And it would be searchable... so if I was looking for locally made leather polish (which I know exists) I could find it through the website and either order online or drive to a local shop that sells the item I'm looking for. What a great way to support our local businesses. It would essentially be an online directory specific to us. I know things like Be Local have been tried, but they can't support themselves. But through support from the Municipalities and the Chambers, maybe we could make it happen. Franchises could be listed if they're locally owned, but no big box stores.
0 comment0Barefootmegover 2 years agoTell us how much of our tax money goes towards paying for parking that often sits vacant.
On our street, we have free parking that is cleaned, maintained, and in the winter sometimes cleared by the City. That's gotta be costing us something... but we think of it as free. It would be great to have a cost calculator so that we could look up how much that "free" parking is really costing us. That might help us, as residents, better decide if we want to keep that free parking, or if we'd rather have a parklet or other use for that space. It might also help us to recognize how much that parking is subsidized, and by looking on a map of where folks are living who have no "free" parking, we'll start to realize who the folks are who are subsidizing our ability to park in front of our house any time we want.
0 comment0Barefootmegover 2 years agoWe need "streetcar commercial districts"... even if our streetcar is no longer a city-wide form off transportation.
Not only should every resident live within walking or biking distance of a park, but they should also live within walking or biking distance of a gallon of milk. We need small, neighborhood level commercial areas where residents can gather together over coffee/tea/beer and get to know each other. We need places that are affordable for small business owners to get their start and they need to be easily accessible by walking, riding, or scootering for everyone, including moms with young kids on bikes. We can't just put our commercial centers along dangerous motorways. We need to be putting them at the smaller crossroads within our neighborhoods. And we seriously need to deal with the food desserts on the eastern edges of town.
0 comment0FoCoNickover 2 years agoPenalize conglomerates who hold commercial real estate vacant for longer than 2 years (esp. along College Ave).
2 comments0Draxxinusamalmost 3 years agoCreate a Light Rail plan that can easily connect Fort Collins to other Urban Centers
Create a plan for lightrail that can connect into Denver's infrastructure (or even Cheyenne) to help alleviate traffic issues, but also better connect people who might not be able to make a trip to Fort Collins very easily. (Or vice versa)
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Environmental Health / Salud ambiental
over 2 years agoCLOSED: This ideas has concluded.In the Environmental Health Outcome, what kinds of services would you like to see funded?
Like someone else’s idea? Click on the heart to help us see which ones have the most support.
En el Resultado Salud ambiental, ¿qué tipos de servicios le gustaría que se financiaran?
¿Le gusta la idea de otra persona? Haga clic en el corazón para ayudarnos a ver cuáles tienen más apoyo.
Jaypodover 2 years agoAir quality/climate change. Need to go beyond monitoring air quality. Need short and long term plan to combat these threats to life quality.
Air quality/climate change
0 comment1Draxxinusamalmost 3 years agoLeverage things like "Trash Tag" to help incentivize citizens to keep areas clean.
Create programs to get equipment (vests, grabbers etc) and community events to clean areas/neighborhoods of trash that accumulates in them. Prizes for garbage removal, events, food trucks etc. can help encourage people to participate in keeping their communities more clean.
1 comment1Tallon Nightwalkeralmost 3 years agoUse Northern Colorado Wildlife Center to improve habitats in the city
Save money on the other contractors, and pay the nonprofit Northern Colorado Wildlife Center to do the clean-ups like they already provide. Paying them would allow them to clean-up MORE city natural areas and it would keep the money going to local nonprofits instead of contractor companies.
0 comment4FoCoNickover 2 years agoNorth East Fort Collins cannot access XIP grant - please partner with ELCO + FCLWD + Northern Water to expand this program to homeowners.
0 comment0Barefootmegover 2 years agoRecycle or reuse buildings rather than throwing them away.
I know we theoretically have a City rule whereby older buildings are supposed to be recycled, rather than thrown away. But based on the number of unsorted building bits that I frequently seen hauled away in trash dumpsters every time an Old Town house is razed, I don't think there's much to that rule. We need to consider adding a deconstruction rule like they have in Oregon (Portland?) now. They've been using the rule for years now and even expanded it because it's working so well. It doesn't make sense to throw away perfectly good material into an already overflowing landfill only to replace those goods with all new resources that need to be harvested, processed, hauled and installed when we could just reuse what we already have. And reusing a building without demolition or deconstruction is even better in terms of energy savings. How can we call ourselves a sustainable community when we're throwing such perfectly good resources away and replacing them with things hauled all the way in from China?!!!!
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Safe Community / Comunidad segura
over 2 years agoCLOSED: This ideas has concluded.In the Safe Community Outcome, what kinds of services would you like to see funded?
Like someone else’s idea? Click on the heart to help us see which ones have the most support.
En el Resultado Comunidad segura, ¿qué tipos de servicios le gustaría que se financiaran?
¿Le gusta la idea de otra persona? Haga clic en el corazón para ayudarnos a ver cuáles tienen más apoyo.
Videos
- Explanation of the different kinds of budget requests. Explicación de los diferentes tipos de solicitudes presupuestarias.
- Overview of the City's two-year process to create the Strategic Plan and Biennial Budget.
- How does the City of Fort Collins decide to spend its money?
- ¿Cómo decide la Cuidad cuánto dinero gastar y en qué?
- Neighborhood Livability & Social Health, Environmental Health Foro sobre el presupuesto nº 1: Habitabilidad y salud social dentro de la comunidad y Salud ambiental Hay subtítulos en español disponibles
- Safe Community and Transportation & Mobility
- Comunidad segura y Transporte y movilidad
- Economic Health, Culture & Recreation, and High Performing Government
- Salud económica, Cultura y recreación, y Un gobierno de alto rendimiento
- Online forum with community partner organizations reviewing engagement opportunities for the 2022 Budget and other City projects.
FAQs
- What is the City's budget about? / ¿De qué se trata el presupuesto de la Ciudad?
- How are budget decisions made? / ¿Cómo se toman las decisiones con respecto al presupuesto?
- What are the City's Key Outcome Areas? / ¿Cuáles son las Áreas de resultados clave de la Ciudad?
- What is Budgeting for Outcomes? / ¿Qué es el Presupuesto por Resultados?
- Why do we do Budgeting for Outcomes? / ¿Por qué hacemos el Presupuesto por Resultados?
- What's Different About the 2022 Budget? / ¿Qué tiene de diferente el Presupuesto de 2022?
Key Dates
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March → May 2021
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May → July 2021
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September 01 2021
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September → November 2021
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September 14 2021
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September 21 2021
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September 28 2021
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October 05 2021
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October 12 2021
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November 02 2021
Who's Listening
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Budget Director
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Phone 9704162738 Email aresseguie@fcgov.com