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Agenda Bill Master Report
File Number: AB2025-685
File ID:
AB2025-685
Version: 1
Status: Adopted
File Created:
09/26/2025
Entered by: MMiterko@co.whatcom.wa.us
Department:
Finance Division
File Type: Ordinance
Assigned to:
Council Finance and Administrative Services Committee
Final Action: 10/21/2025
Agenda Date:
10/21/2025
Enactment #: ORD 2025-052
Related Files:
Primary Contact Email: atan(c�co.whatcom.wa.us
TITLE FOR AGENDA ITEM:
Ordinance amending the 2025 Whatcom County Budget, request no. 11, in the amount of $517,671
SUMMARY STATEMENT OR LEGAL NOTICE LANGUAGE:
Supplemental 411 requests funding from the General Fund:
1. To appropriate $27,171 in District Court to fund interpreter services in District Court using
grant funds from Administrative Office of the Courts.
2. To appropriate $50,000 in Superior Court to fund costs related to Uniform Guardianship Act
compliance RCW 11.130.
3. To appropriate $15,000 in Superior Court to fund costs related to court interpreter program.
From the Jail Fund:
4. To appropriate $125,500 in Sheriff - Corrections to fund purchase of medications for opiod
use disorder (MOUD) using grant funds from the Washington State Department of Social and
Health Services.
From the Real Estate Excise Tax II Fund:
5. To appropriate $300,000 in Non -Departmental to fund an operational transfer for the creation
of the Silver Lake Lagoon Bridge Fund. Companion to supplemental 95169.
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE FILE
Date: Acting Body: Action: Sent To:
Whatcom County Page 1 Printed on 1012212025
Agenda Bill Master Report Continued (AB2025-685)
10/07/2025 Council
Aye: 7
Nay: 0
10/21/2025 Council Finance and Administrative
Services Committee
Aye: 3
Nay: 0
10/21/2025 Council
Aye: 7
Nay: 0
INTRODUCED Council Finance and
Administrative Services
Committee
Buchanan, Byrd, Donovan, Elenbaas, Galloway, Scanlon, and Stremler
RECOMMENDED FOR
ADOPTION
Byrd, Donovan, and Buchanan
ADOPTED
Buchanan, Byrd, Donovan, Elenbaas, Galloway, Scanlon, and Stremler
Attachments: Proposed Ordinance, Summary by Fund, Summary Listing, Supplemental Requests, Notice of
Action Proposed on 10.7.2025
Whatcom County Page 2 Printed on 1012212025
Docusign Envelope ID: C3ECC2E3-9A6C-404A-BBF9-36CE67940EF8
PROPOSED BY: Executive
INTRODUCTION DATE: 10/07/2025
ORDINANCE NO. 2025-052
AMENDMENT NO.11 OF THE 2025 BUDGET
WHEREAS, the 2025-2026 budget was adopted November 19, 2024; and,
WHEREAS, changing circumstances require modifications to the approved 2025-2026 budget;
and,
WHEREAS, the modifications to the budget have been assembled here for deliberation by the
Whatcom County Council,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Whatcom County Council that the 2025-2026
Whatcom County Budget Ordinance #2024-057 is hereby amended by adding the following additional
amounts to the 2025 budget included therein:
Fund
Expenditures
Revenues
Net Effect
General Fund 1000
92,171
(27,171)
65,000
Jail Fund 1350
126,500
(125,500)
Real Estate Exicise Tax II (REET II) Fund 3420
300,000
300,000
Total Supplemental
517,671
(152,671)
365,000
ADOPTED, tNsl . te,day of October , 2025.
�'N�`d.°u,N WHATCOM COUNTY COUNCIL
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CathyHaka wQ69ft'ti: Clerk K hylee alloway, Chair of CoLIncil
APPROVED A$'fiAOR'M: (� A��roved O Denied
, > D c Signed by:
Approved by email: B Waldron/A Tan
Civil Deputy Prosecutor Satpa i u County Executive
Date: 10/22/2025