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Agenda Bill Master Report
File Number: AB2022-012
File ID: AB2022-012 Version: 1 Status: Adopted
File Created: 12/29/2021 Entered by: MCaldwel@co.whatcom.wa.us
Department: Finance Division File Type: Ordinance
Assigned to: Council Finance and Administrative Services Committee Final Action: 01/25/2022
Agenda Date: 01/25/2022 Enactment#: ORD 2022-003
Primary Contact Email: mcaldwel@co.whatcom.wa.us
TITLE FOR AGENDA ITEM:
Ordinance establishing the Geneva Bioretention Pilot Project Fund and establishing a project based
budget for the Geneva Bioretention Pilot Project
SUMMARY STATEMENT OR LEGAL NOTICE LANGUAGE:
Request establishes the Geneva Bioretention Pilot Project Fund and requests a project based budget in
the total amount of $1,489,250.
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE FILE
Date: Acting Body:
Action:
Sent To:
01/11/2022 Council
INTRODUCED Council Finance and
Administrative Services
Committee
Aye:
7
Elenbaas, Frazey, Galloway, Kershner, Buchanan, Byrd, and Donovan
Nay:
0
Absent:
0
01/25/2022 Council Finance and Administrative
RECOMMENDED FOR
Services Committee
ADOPTION
Aye:
3
Byrd, Frazey, and Kershner
Nay:
0
Absent:
0
01/25/2022 Council ADOPTED
Aye: 7 Buchanan, Byrd, Donovan, Elenbaas, Frazey, Galloway, and Kershner
Nay: 0
Whatcom County Page 1 Printed on 112612022
Agenda Bill Master Report Continued (AB2022-012)
Absent: 0
Attachments: Staff memo, Proposed Ordinance, Proposed Ordinance - Exhibit A, Project request
Whatcom County Page 2 Printed on 1/26/2022
1 PROPOSED BY: Public Works/Executive
2 INTRODUCTION DATE: 01/11/22
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5 ORDINANCE NO. 2022-003
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8 ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING THE GENEVA BIORETENTION PILOT PROJECT
9 FUND AND ESTABLISHING A PROJECT BASED BUDGET FOR THE GENEVA
10 BIORETENTION PILOT PROJECT FUND
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13 WHEREAS, the Geneva Bioretention Pilot Project is listed as item number
14 three on the 2022-2027 Six -Year Water Resources Improvement Program for the
15 Lake Whatcom watershed with anticipated total cost of $1,489,250, and
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18 WHEREAS, this project will improve water quality in Lake Whatcom through
19 installation of a bioretention facility, utilizing a newly -developed High Performance
20 Bioretention Soil Mix to provide treatment for total suspended solids, dissolved
21 copper, dissolved zinc, and total phosphorus, and
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24 WHEREAS, funding for this project will be provided by a Water Quality
25 Combined Financial Assistance Agreement titled 'High -Performance Bioretention
26 Pilot to Improve Regional Water Quality," with the Washington State Department of
27 Ecology in the amount of $971,250, and by local funding in the amount of $250,000
28 from Real Estate Excise Tax II funds and $268,000 from Lake Whatcom Stormwater
29 Utility funds (including 15% contingency), and
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32 WHEREAS, Section 6.80 of the Whatcom County Home Rule Charter allows
33 for project -based capital budget appropriation ordinances that lapse when the
34 project has been completed or abandoned or when no expenditure or encumbrance
35 has been made for three (3) years,
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38 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Whatcom County Council that
39 a new fund is hereby established, effective immediately, titled Geneva Bioretention
40 Pilot Project Fund. This fund shall be used to account for the revenues and
41 expenditures of the improvement project described above, and
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BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED by the Whatcom County Council that the
Geneva Bioretention Pilot Project Fund is approved as described in Exhibit A with a
project budget of 1,489,250.
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D�I�'3StjtjE.2sth day of January, 2022.
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Dana Brpvn Davis;_=Clerk of the Council
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Approved by email/CQuinn/M Caldwell
Christopher Quinn
Senior Deputy Prosecuting
Attorney - Civil Division
WHATCOM COUNTY COUNCIL
WHCO C NTY, WASHINGTON
T dd Donova , Ch he Council
( ) Approved ( ) Denied
Date Signed: i -�I/aa,
Exhibit A
Geneva Bioretention Pilot Project
Expenditures
Object
Description
6110
Wages
6290
Applied Benefits
6630
Professional Services
6699
Other Services Interfund
7199
Other Misc. Interfund
7380
Other Improvements
Amount
$ 64,000
$ 47,000
$ 341,000
$ 33,000
$ 3,000
$ 807,000
Subtotal $ 1,295,000
7199 Contingency (15%) $ 194,250
Total PBB $ 1,489,250
Revenues'
Object Description Amount
8301.324 Operation Transfer In - REET II $ 250,000
8301.132 Operation Transfer In - LWSU $ 268,000
4334.0311 CZM-FCCAP Grant $ 971,250
Total Revenue $ 1,489,250