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Agenda Bill Master Report
File Number: AB2025-628
File ID: AB2025-628 Version: 1 Status: Adopted
File Created: 08/29/2025 Entered by: ATan@co.whatcom.wa.us
Department: Finance Division File Type: Ordinance
Assigned to: Council Finance and Administrative Services Committee Final Action: 09/23/2025
Agenda Date: 09/23/2025 Enactment #: ORD
2025-047
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TITLE FOR AGENDA ITEM:
Ordinance amending the 2025 Whatcom County Budget, request no. 10, in the amount of
$1,820,416
SUMMARY STATEMENT OR LEGAL NOTICE LANGUAGE:
Supplemental # 10 requests funding from the General Fund:
To appropriate $2,000 in Health to fund improvements to the FDA food safety program using
grant finds.
To record $16,234 in Sheriff for the USDA forest service deputy program.
To appropriate $112,700 in Sheriff to fund the deputy wellness program using grant funds.
To appropriate $19,952 in Prosecuting Attorney to fund the paperless records program using
grant funds.
To appropriate $62,961 in Prosecuting Attorney to fund child support enforcement cases
from Skagit and San Juan Counties using grant funds.
To appropriate $500,000 in Superior Court Clerk to fund conflict assignments and overflow
cases for indigent defense.
To appropriate $43,747 in Non -Departmental to find 911 equipmenet purchases using grant
funds.
To appropriate $130,000 in Non -Departmental to fund housing services using grant funds.
To appropriate $74,045 in Non -Departmental to fund 911 communications and operations
using grant funds.
To appropriate $10,000 in Non -Departmental to fund What -Comm dispatch fees for Sheriff
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Agenda Bill Master Report Continued (AB2025-628)
calls.
From the Election Reserve Fund:
To appropriate $15,590 in Auditor to fund improvements in the election center using grant
finds.
From the Countywide EMS Tax Fund:
To appropriate $178,000 in Non -Departmental to fund What -Comm dispatch fees for EMS
calls.
To appropriate $32,000 in Non -Departmental to fund retirement payout.
From the Conservation Futures Fund:
To appropriate $200,000 in Non -Departmental to fund Stewart Mountain Phase II
acquisition.
From the Community Priorities Fund:
To appropriate $148,000 in Executive to fund an administrative change for four food
insecurity contracts.
From the Climate Action Fund:
To appropriate $250,000 in Public Works to fund State required climate planning activities
using grant funds.
From the Real Estate Excise Tax II Fund:
To appropriate $31,500 in Parks to fund accessability improvmeents between Van Zandt
Community Hall and a WTA bus stop using grant funds.
From the Administrative Services Fund:
To appropriate $9,921 in Administrative Services - Facilities to find security upgrades in
District and Superior Court using grant funds.
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE FILE
Date: Acting Body:
Action:
Sent To:
09/09/2025 Council
INTRODUCED
Council Finance and
Administrative Services
Committee
Aye:
7
Buchanan, Byrd, Donovan, Elenbaas,
Galloway, Scanlon, and Stremler
Nay:
0
09/23/2025 Council Finance and Administrative
RECOMMENDED FOR
Services Committee
ADOPTION
Aye:
3
Byrd, Donovan, and Buchanan
Nay:
0
09/23/2025 Council ADOPTED
Aye: 5 Buchanan, Byrd, Donovan, Galloway, and Scanlon
Nay: 2 Elenbaas, and Stremler
Attachments: Proposed Ordinance, Summary Listing, Summary by Fund, Supplemental Requests, Notice of
Action Proposed on September 9 2025
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PROPOSED BY: Executive
INTRODUCTION DATE: 09/09/2025
ORDINANCE NO. 2025-047
AMENDMENT NO.10 OF THE 2025 BUDGET
WHEREAS, the 2025-2026 budget was adopted November 19, 2024; and,
WHEREAS, changing circumstances require modifications to the approved 2025-2026 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 2025-2026
Whatcom County Budget Ordinance #2024-057 is hereby amended by adding the following additional
amounts to the 2025 budget included therein:
Fund
Expenditures
Revenues
Net Effect
General Fund 1000
955,405
(480,678)
474,727
Election Reserve Fund 1150
15,590
(15,590)
Countywide EMS Tax Fund 1240
210,000
-
210,000
Conservation Futures Fund 1246
200,000
-
200,000
Community Priorities Fund 1247
148,000
-
148,000
Climate Action Fund 1915
250,000
(283,000)
(33,000)
Real Estate Exicise Tax II (REET II) Fund 3420
31,500
(31,500)
-
Administrative Services Fund 5600
9,921
(9,921)
Total Supplemental
1,820,416
(820,689)
999,727
BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED by the Whatcom County Council that Exhibit C — Position Control
Changes in the 2025-2026 Budget Ordinance should also be amended to provide for the following
FTE changes in the Prosecuting Attorney's Office:
Add 1 FTE — Prosecuting Attorney, Domestic Relations Coordinator
ADOPTED', ' i23rd day of September 2025.
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Kaylee alloway, Chair of Council
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Civil Deputy Prosecutor Satpal Sidhu, County Executive
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