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Agenda Bill Report
File Number: AB2024-110
File ID: AB2024-110 Version: 1 Status: Adopted
File Created: 01/25/2024 Entered by: mdonley@co.whatcom.wa.us
Department: Public Works File Type: Ordinance
Department
Assigned to: Council Finance and Administrative Services Committee Final Action: 02/20/2024
Agenda Date: 02/20/2024 Enactment #: ORD 2024-009
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Primary Contact Email: sdraper@co.whatcom.wa.us
TITLE FOR AGENDA ITEM:
Ordinance establishing a project based budget for Eagleridge Stormwater Improvements Project Fund
S WP #S WLW24-01
SUMMARY STATEMENT OR LEGAL NOTICE LANGUAGE:
See memo
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE FILE
Date: Acting Body:
Action:
Sent To:
02/06/2024 Council
INTRODUCED
Council Finance and
Administrative Services
Committee
Aye:
7
Buchanan, Byrd, Donovan, Elenbaas,
Galloway, Scanlon, and Stremler
Nay:
0
02/20/2024 Council Finance and Administrative
RECOMMENDED FOR
Services Committee
ADOPTION
Aye:
3
Byrd, Galloway, and Donovan
Nay:
0
02/20/2024 Council ADOPTED
Aye: 7 Buchanan, Byrd, Donovan, Elenbaas, Galloway, Scanlon, and Stremler
Nay: 0
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1 PROPOSED BY: Public Works
2 INTRODUCTION DATE: 2/6/2024
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5 ORDINANCE NO. 2024-009
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8 ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A PROJECT BASED BUDGET FOR
9 EAGLERIDGE STORMWATER IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT FUND
10 SWP #SWLW24-01
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12 WHEREAS, this Eagleridge Stormwater Improvements project is listed
13 as item number four on the 2024-2029 Six -Year Water Resources
14 Improvement Program for the Lake Whatcom watershed; and
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16 WHEREAS, this project will install water quality treatment facilities to
17 remove sediment and phosphorus from the Eagleridge neighborhood before
18 entering Lake Whatcom; and
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20 WHEREAS, local funding for this initial request will come from the
21 Lake Whatcom Stormwater Utility fund ($15,000.00) and a transfer from the
22 from Real Estate Excise Tax II (REET) fund ($310,000.00); and
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24 WHEREAS, this request includes costs associated with contracted
25 professional engineering and permitting services, permit fees, county survey,
26 and county staff time for project management, and easement and right of
27 way acquisition; and
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29 WHEREAS, additional funds are needed to cover the project
30 construction costs and construction oversight, which will require an additional
31 request for funds in the 2025; and
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33 WHEREAS, Section 6.80 of the Whatcom County Home Rule Charter
34 allows for project -based capital budget appropriation ordinances that lapse
35 when the project has been completed or abandoned or when no expenditure
36 or encumbrance has been made for three (3) years,
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38 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Whatcom County
39 Council that a new fund is hereby established, effective immediately, titled
40 Eagleridge Stormwater Improvements Project Fund. This fund shall be used
41 to account for the revenues and expenditures of the improvement project
42 described above, and
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BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED by the Whatcom County Council that the
Eagleridge Stormwater Improvements Project Fund is approved with an initial
project budget of $325,000.00 as described in Exhibit A.
ADOPTED this 20th
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APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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Christopher Quinn
Senior Deputy Prosecuting
Attorney - Civil Division
day of February 2024.
WHATCOM COUNTY COUNCIL
WHATCOM COUNTY, WASHINGTON
arr uchanan, Chair of the Council
Approved ( ) Denied
Date Signed: -I
EXHIBIT A
Eagleridge Stormwater Improvements Project Fund
Account Description
Proiect Budget
Request
Expenditure
6110
Wages
$
50,000.00
6290
Applied Benefits
$
40,000.00
6630
Professional Services
$
155,000.00
6699
Other Services Interfund (County Survey)
$
40,000.00
7199
Other Misc. Interfund (Permit Fees)
$
10,000.00
7199
Other Misc. Interfund (Contingency)
$
10,000.00
7380
Right of Way / Easement Acquisition Cost
$
20,000.00
Total Project Based Budget Request
$
325,000.00
Revenue
8301.132 Lake Whatcom Stormwater Utility (LWSU) Fund $ 15,000.00
8301.324 Operation Transfer In - REET II $ 310,000.00
Total Revenue $ 325,000.00