Date Adopted:  10/08/2020		             	  Working Instruction Number:
Revised Feb 10, 2022								    2020-01

CITY OF AURORA, COLORADO
VETERANS AFFAIRS COMMISSION
WORKING INSTRUCTION TEMPLATE

1.  Purpose: This is a required paragraph.  In 1-2 sentences explain what the Working Instruction does. 

2.  Definitions: This is an optional paragraph.  Use if appropriate.

3.  Requirement(s):  This is a required paragraph.  State the Working Instruction of the Commission. 

4.  Responsibilities:   This is an optional paragraph.   If there are several positions responsible for the procedures below, explain them in this paragraph. 

5.  Procedures:  This is an optional paragraph.   If there are procedures associated with the Working Instruction, outline them here.

FORMAT INSTRUCTIONS AND NOTES:

1.  “Date Adopted”: Left justified, bold
2.   Date:  not bold
3.  “Working Instruction Number”:  Right justified, bold
4.  Actual Working Instruction number:  appears under and left justified with “Working Instruction Number”.  Working Instruction numbers begin with the year adopted and then the sequence number of the Working Instruction.
5.  “CITY OF AURORA, COLORADO, VETERANS AFFAIRS COMMISSION”  center, bold, on separate lines, all caps 
6.  Title: Immediately under VETERANS AFFAIRS COMMISSION, center, bold, all caps. Then a space before the Purpose statement. 
7.  Purpose, Definitions, Working Instruction, Responsibilities, Procedures:  Number, bold, left justified, upper and lower case followed by a colon “:”. 
8.  Margins:  1 inch all four sides
9.  Font:  Arial 12
10.  Page number:  Bottom right corner in the Footer.  Arial 10
	a.  One-page policies do not include a page number
	b.  Attachments are numbered in order that they are addressed in the body of the Working Instruction. Number them in order starting with an “A”.  For example, the first attachment is “A1” and include the title.  This line is the first line on the page. One-page attachments do not include a page number.
11.  List attachments on the last page of the Working Instruction in order with number and title.

12.  Indent first subparagraph by 5 characters and number with lower case letters followed by a period.   For example:

	a.  XXXXX

13.  Indent second subparagraph by 10 characters and number with a numeric in parentheses and a period.  For example:

		(1).  

14.  Single space lines (no spacing before or after).
15.  Double space paragraphs.
16.  Single space between words.
17.  Double space between sentences.
18.  Double space between period after a number and the text that follows. 
19.  Wrap line text to be even with the sentence number.