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Agenda Bill Master Report
File Number: AB2023-270
File ID: AB2023-270 Version: 1 Status: Adopted
File Created: 04/02/2023 Entered by: MCaldwel@co.whatcom.wa.us
Department: Finance Division File Type: Ordinance
Assigned to: Council Finance and Administrative Services Committee Final Action: 04/25/2023
Agenda Date: 04/25/2023 Enactment #: ORD 2023-026
Primary Contact Email: atan(cico.whatcom.wa.us
TITLE FOR AGENDA ITEM:
Ordinance amending the 2023 Whatcom County Budget, request no. 6, in the amount of $6,245,264
SUMMARY STATEMENT OR LEGAL NOTICE LANGUAGE:
Supplemental 96 requests funding from the General Fund:
1. To record $16,804 transfer -in from Behavioral Health Fund for indirect costs.
2. To appropriate $50,000 in District Court Probation to fund additional Domestic Violence
Perpatrator Opportunity for Treatment Services program from City of Bellingham funding.
From the Elections Reserve Fund:
3. To appropriate $80,000 to fund elections security improvements from grant proceeds.
From the Homeless Housing Fund:
4. To appropriate $464,359 to fund increase in Commerce Consolidated Housing Grant program.
5. To re -appropriate $912,460 to fund Emergency Solutions - Housing Grant program.
From the Behavioral Health Program Fund:
6. To appropriate $72,631 to fund Alternative Response Team (ART) staffing increase.
7. To record Behavioral Health labor pool adjustment for new ART position.
8. To appropriate $16,804 to fund transfer -out to cover indirect costs.
9. To appropriate $62,000 to fund increase for ART Pilot Program from City of Bellingham
pass -through grant proceeds.
From the Countywide Emergency Medical Services Fund:
10. To re -appropriate $120,400 to fund Firefighter recruiting/hiring costs associated with
replacement of personnel transferred to the 5th Paramedic Unit.
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Agenda Bill Master Report Continued (A82023-270)
11. To re -appropriate $61,760 to fund Fire District #5 (Pt Roberts) Basic Life Support services
allocation.
From the Ferry Fare Capital Surcharge Fund:
12. To re -appropriate $25,000 to fund PSE study to determine feasibility of supplying charging
power for an electric ferry at the ferry terminals.
From the Emergency Management Fund:
13. To appropriate $4,294,850 to fund Emergency Rapid Response Grant program projects as a
result of the November 2021 flood.
From the Public Utilities Improvement Fund:
14. To appropriate $45,000 to fund Williamson Way water damage repair.
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE FILE
Date: Acting Body: Action: Sent To:
04/11/2023 Council
Aye: 7
Nay: 0
04/25/2023 Council Finance and Administrative
Services Committee
Aye: 3
Nay: 0
04/25/2023 Council
Aye: 7
Nay: 0
INTRODUCED Council Finance and
Administrative Services
Committee
Buchanan, Byrd, Donovan, Elenbaas, Frazey, Galloway, and Kershner
RECOMMENDEDFOR
ADOPTION
Donovan, Frazey, and Kershner
ADOPTED
Buchanan, Byrd, Donovan, Elenbaas, Frazey, Galloway, and Kershner
Attachments: Proposed Ordinance, Summary Listing, Budget Supplemental Requests
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PROPOSED BY: Executive
INTRODUCTION DATE: 4/11/23
ORDINANCE NO. 2023 - 026
AMENDMENT NO. 6 OF THE 2023 BUDGET
WHEREAS, the 2023-2024 budget was adopted November 22, 2022; and,
WHEREAS, changing circumstances require modifications to the approved 2023-2024 budget;
and,
WHEREAS, the modifications to the budget have been assembled here for deliberation by the
Whatcom County Council,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Whatcom County Council that the 2023-2024
Whatcom County Budget Ordinance #2022-070 is hereby amended by adding the following additional
amounts to the 2023 budget included therein:
Fund
Expenditures
Revenues
Net Effect
General Fund
Health
-
(16,804)
(16,804)
District Court Probation
50,000
(50,000)
-
Total General Fund
50,000
(66,804)
(16,804)
Elections Reserve Fund
80,000
(80,000)
-
Homeless Housing Fund
1,376,819
(1,376,819)
-
Behavioral Health Program Fund
191,435
(98,316)
93,119
Countywide Emergency Medical Services Fund
182,160
-
182,160
Ferry Fare Capital Surcharge Fund
25,000
-
25,000
Emergency Management Fund
4,294,850
4,294,850
-
Public Utilities Improvement Fund
45,000
-
45,000
Total Supplemental
1 6,245,264
(5,916,782)
328,475
BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED by the Whatcom County Council that Exhibit C — Position Control
Changes in the 2023-2024 Budget Ordinance should also be amended to provide for the following
FTE changes in Health:
• Add 1 FT�,,pphavioral Health Specialist (Alternative Response Team)
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APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Approved by email/C Quinn/A Tan
Civil Deputy Prosecutor
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WHATCOM COUNTY COUNCIL
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Ban(v Buchanan, Chair of Council
Approved ( ) Denied
Satpal Sidhu, County Executive
Date: