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Agenda Bill Master Report
File Number: AB2020-119
File ID: AB2020-119 Version: 1 Status: Adopted
File Created: 02/27/2020 Entered by: MCaldwel@co.whatcom.wa.us
Department: Finance Division File Type: Ordinance
Assigned to: Council Finance and Administrative Services Committee Final Action: 03/24/2020
Agenda Date: 03/24/2020 Enactment #: ORD 2020-010
Primary Contact Email: mcaldwel@co.whatcom.wa.us
TITLE FOR AGENDA ITEM:
Ordinance establishing the Swift Creek Capital Projects Fund and establishing a project based budget
for Swift Creek Capital Projects
SUMMARY STATEMENT OR LEGAL NOTICE LANGUAGE:
Request establishes the Swift Creek Capital Projects Fund and requests a project based budget to fund
Swift Creek sediment management capital projects in the amount of $5,217,159.
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE FILE
Date: Acting Body:
Action:
Sent To:
03/10/2020 Council INTRODUCED Council Finance and
Administrative Services
Committee
Aye: 6 Browne, Buchanan, Byrd, Donovan, Frazey, and Elenbaas
Nay: 0
Absent: 1 Kershner
03/24/2020 Council ADOPTED
Aye: 7 Browne, Buchanan, Byrd, Donovan, Frazey, Elenbaas, and Kershner
Nay: 0
Absent: 0
Attachments: Staff Memo, Proposed Ordinance
Whatcom County Page 1 Printed on 312712020
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PROPOSED BY: Public Works
INTRODUCTION DATE: 03/10/2020
ORDINANCE NO. 2020-010
ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING THE SWIFT CREEK CAPITAL PROJECTS FUND AND
ESTABLISHING A PROJECT BASED BUDGET FOR SWIFT CREEK CAPITAL PROJECTS
WHEREAS, Swift Creek, due to the Sumas Mountain landslide, transports large
amounts of sediment containing naturally -occurring asbestos (NOA) and metals which poses
flooding and health hazards to the surrounding community and environment; and
WHEREAS, the Washington State Legislature awarded Whatcom County an
appropriation totaling $6.4 million for the Sumas Mountain/Swift Creek Sediment
Management Project to be distributed by the Department of Ecology (Ecology); and
WHEREAS, the Washington State Legislature has identified $10.7 million of projected
costs to be allocated in future biennia; and
WHEREAS, Ecology and Whatcom County have entered into a no -match grant
agreement that will advance allotments of the state appropriation to the County; and
WHEREAS, $1,182,841 of the state appropriation has been spent on preliminary
engineering and maintenance; and
WHEREAS, in December of 2019, Ecology and Whatcom County entered into a
Consent Decree which lays out the scope of work and overall schedule for this ongoing, multi-
year project; and
WHEREAS, Section 6.80 of the Whatcom County Home Rule Charter allows for project
-based capital budget appropriation ordinances that lapse when the project has been
completed or abandoned or when no expenditure or encumbrance has been made for three
(3) years; and
WHEREAS, this is a multi -year capital project requiring budget approval,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Whatcom County Council that a project
based budget fund is hereby established effective March 25th 2020, titled "Swift Creek Capital
Projects Fund"
BE IF FURTHER ORDAINED, that the fund is approved with an initial project budget
of $5,217,159, as presented in attached Exhibit A.
ADOPTED thj�,2AJI�,,day of March , 2020.
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Dane,Brown;�av#5' ierk of the Council
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APPROVED AS TO FORM:
arisZtoph`e�ruinn
Senior Deputy Prosecuting Attorney
Civil Division
WHATCOM COUNTY COUNCIL
WHATCOM COUNTY, WASHINGTON
Barry Buchanan,
Chair of the Council
WHATCOM COUNTY EXECUTIVE
WHATCOM COUNTY, WASHINGTON
( ) Approved ( ) Denied
Satpal Si gh Sidhu
County Executive
Date Signed: zo at)