HomeMy WebLinkAboutord2013-059 WHATCOM COUNTY COUNCIL AGENDA BILL NO. 2013-347
CLEARANCES Initial Date Date Received in Council Office Agenda Date Assigned to:
twh 10/14/13 10/22/13 Intro
Originator:
IC C I) // F D 11/12/13 Finance &
Division Head: V Council
Dept. Head: OCT 15 2013
Prosecutor ioki WHATCOM COUNTY
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Executive: 101145
TITLE OF DOCUME . Ordinance to amend the new jail project fund by adding budget authority in the amount of$6,093,491
for the purchase of jail site property,for a total project budget expenditure amount of$6,638,393.
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Requesting Council approval for additional budget authority in the new jail project fund for a total budget expenditure amount of
$6,638,393 to allow for the acquisition of jail site property. (See Executive Louws 10/14/13 memo to council referencing funding
adjustments to allow for property acquisitions).
COMMITTEE ACTION: COUNCIL ACTION:
11/12/2013: Forwarded to Council for approval 10/22/2013: Introduced
11/12/2013: Council Adopted 6-0, Kremen
absent Ord. 2013-059
Related County Contract#: Related File Numbers: Ordinance or Resolution Number:
Ord. 2013-059
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at: www.co.whatcom.wa.us/council.
SPONSORED BY: _Executive
PROPOSED BY: Executive
INTRODUCTION DATE: October 22, 2013
ORDINANCE NO. 2013-059
AMENDMENT No. 2 TO ORDINANCE No. 2013-003
ESTABLISHING A PROJECT FUND FOR THE NEW JAIL PROJECT
WHEREAS, the planning phase of the New Jail Project 2013-2014 budget was initially
adopted on January 29, 2013 with an expenditure amount of$444,902 for jail planning and a
revenue amount of$1,000,000 from a General Fund transfer, and
WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 2012-045 approved July 23,2013, added expenditure
authority of$100,000 for additional studies of the preferred jail site to the project based
budget, and
WHEREAS, the environmental impact statement and supplemental environmental
impact statement are complete, and
WHEREAS, it may be in the best interest of Whatcom County to purchase the
preferred jail site at the intersection of LaBounty Road and Sunset Avenue in Ferndale, and
WHEREAS, funding for the site acquisition will be provided by interfund transfers
from the Real Estate Excise Tax I Fund ($2,300,000), the Whatcom County Jail Fund
($2,700,000) and the General Fund ($1,093,491),
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Whatcom County Council, that
Ordinance No. 2013-003 establishing the project based budget for the New Jail Project 2013-
2014, as amended by Ordinance No. 2013-045, is hereby amended by adding an additional
amount of$6,093,491 of expenditure authority to the amended project budget amount of
$544,902 for a total project budget expenditure amount of$6,638,393.
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Dai .'Brdw'' I� r cil=Clerk Katy Kershner, Chair of the Council
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APPROVED A 'FO FORM: 1.1 pr ( Denied
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Chief Civil Deputy Prosecutor Ja k . xecutive
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