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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?
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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?
Have 5 minutes?
Have 10 minutes?
Have 20+ minutes?
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?
¿Tiene 5 minutos?
¿Tiene 10 minutos?
¿Tiene más de 20 minutos?
¿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.
Please consider funding, or seeking the funding, for continuous air quality monitoring, using Boulder AIR technology (bouldair.com). Boulder, Longmont and Broomfield have this; if they can do it, we can do it. It is badly needed to fill the gap in regulatory enforcement where the CDPHE has failed us. Thanks! Rick Casey
Lower taxes across the board.
Deep Equity teaches progressive ideology and is controversial among parents and taxpayers because it tells educators to “explicitly reject and resist any parents who disagree with it.” A Virginia teacher with an exemplary record was placed on administrative leave after questioning the school district’s equity training program. Shelly Norden, an English and journalism teacher in Fauquier County Public Schools, ran one of the top journalism programs in the state and won the Kettle Run High School’s 2016 “Teacher of the Year” award. But Norden says administrators target her for speaking out against an equity training program. “I’m not a rabble-rouser,” Norden, who is also a taxpayer in Fauquier County, told The Daily Wire in an interview. “But this wasn’t right, so I started speaking out against it.” The training program, called Deep Equity, was founded by Gary Howard, a white man who believes that white people “are collectively bound and unavoidably complicit in the arrangements of dominance that have systematically favored our racial group over others.”
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.
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.
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.
I'm all for Historic Preservation. It's a great way to protect our local sense of place and identity. And it gives property owners access to significant tax credits, grants, and zero interest loans. BUT, there are a lot of properties that simply don't qualify, yet tearing them down and landfilling them isn't a particularly environmentally sustainable solution. We need a program that encourages building reuse (especially of buildings constructed of old growth timber and other substantive materials that are irreplaceable) whether or not the building qualifies for historic preservation status. The City's preservation office has a great cost calculator that helps property owners understand the 50 year costs of rehabilitating older windows and improving their R value vs. replacing them with newer windows (that will have a shorter lifespan and will lead to more waste overall). But even preservationists rarely use this tool, let alone environmentalists. We need to be helping people make better choices when purchasing an older building and thinking through how to adapt it for a new use or expand it for additional space. The more we can retain the buildings we already have, not only does that help to retain sense of place and all that good stuff, but it also conserves resources that have already (long ago) been harvested, processed and installed, but it keeps a lot of new resources from having to be harvested, processed, hauled and installed (often from places as far away as China!) which would go a long way towards reducing the City's carbon footprint.
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.
Noting this has some Federal regulation, it's troublesome that so many neighborhoods were developed directly alongside train crossings. With added train noise only increasing (especially during Midnight-to-6am hours) and delays by the Federal Rail Authority, something needs to be done to alleviate these issues more quickly. This is especially true near Timberline & Vine, Timberline & College areas. I'd like to see increased budget put towards mirroring what surrounding communities like Timnath and Windsor provide residential areas with designated quiet zones for Trains or heavily prioritizing the implementation of overpasses at these crossings to alleviate the increasing noise pollution in residential areas that were approved by the city to be built by these tracks without any real strategy to lessen the impact of their proximity. Coupled with housing shortages and a vastly restricted housing market, most people are unable to be selective and are having little choice but to purchase/rent near these tracks due to lack of inventory. Thank you for your consideration of these ideas!
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.
Decrease the harmful effects of human activity on wilderness while raising money to sustain and conserve what we have.
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.
+ Collaborate with Larimer County to augment safety along Country Club Road - a primary path to Tavelli Elementary School.
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.
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.
We've done a great job of rallying around our local businesses during the pandemic. Let's learn from that and find ways to support our local businesses with vigor and encouragement going forward. Let's help our local business owners buy the buildings their businesses reside in. Let's recognize the extent to which they often pay more sales tax per acre than our big box stores. And let's take note of how embedded they are in our community in ways that the big box stores often only pay lip service to.
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.
I know that Historic Preservation is often considered under livable neighborhoods, but historic surveys really should be considered as an economic (and cultural) item. We need to be proactive in getting historic surveys completed so that when new property owners or developers are looking to purchase and alter a property, they know well in advance what codes they're going to come up against. Not having these historic surveys done in advance adds a layer of confusion, lag-time, and uncertainty to our development process. When the varied group of developers, preservationists, DDA members, and real estate lawyers got together to revisit the historic preservation code, the one thing everyone agreed 100% on is that we absolutely must be getting these historic surveys done in advance of development pressure. But doing these surveys thoroughly and accurately takes time and funding. Please fund historic surveys!
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.
The City should not put the money into the General Fund.
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?!!!!
Air quality/climate change
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.
Creating community compost piles, educating residents on best practices, and allowing residents to freely access the compost would both reduce waste and improve the environment.
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.
Budget Director
Phone | 970-416-2439 |
lpollack@fcgov.com |
Phone | 9704162738 |
aresseguie@fcgov.com |