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Agenda Bill Master Report
File Number: AB2025-816
File ID:
AB2025-816
Version: 1
Status: Adopted
File Created:
11/06/2025
Entered by: MMiterko@co.whatcom.wa.us
Department:
Finance Division
File Type: Ordinance
Assigned to:
Council Finance and
Administrative Services Committee
Final Action: 12/09/2025
Agenda Date:
12/09/2025
Enactment #: ORD 2025-064
Related Files:
Primary Contact Email: atanjco.whatcom.wa.us
TITLE FOR AGENDA ITEM:
Ordinance amending the 2025 Whatcom County Budget, request no. 12, in the amount of $3,565,060
SUMMARY STATEMENT OR LEGAL NOTICE LANGUAGE:
Supplemental #11 requests funding from the General Fund:
1. To appropriate $100,000 in Clerk to fund outside conflict attorneys and experts.
2. To appropriate $1,664 in Health to fiord the onsite septric program implementation using grant
funds.
From the Jail Fund:
3. To appropriate $850,000 in Sheriff - Corrections to fund additional overtime expenses for the
Corrections Bureau of the Sheriff's Office.
4. To appropriate $130,000 in Sheriff - Corrections to fund extraordinary costs for the
Corrections Bureau of the Sheriff's Office.
From the Solid Waste Fund:
5. To appropriate $138,000 in Health to fund additional toxic waste waste disposal costs.
From the Real Estate Excise Tax I (REET 1) Fund:
6. To appropriate $1,500,000 in Sheriff to fund a transfer fi•om REET I to establish a project fund
for leasehold improvements for the new Sheriff's Office. This is a companion to supplemental
5290.
7. To appropriate $17,000 in Facilities to fund emergency elevator repairs for the courthouse.
From the Administrative Services Fund:
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8. To appropriate $753,396 in AS -Human Resources to fund L&I claims.
9. To appropriate $75,000 in AS -Human Resources to fund fulfillment of the County's obligation
to engage in collective bargaining per RCW 41.56 and County Code 2.08.010
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE FILE
Date: Acting Body: Action: Sent To:
11/18/2025 Council INTRODUCED Council Finance and
Administrative Services
Committee
Aye: 7 Buchanan, Byrd, Donovan, Elenbaas, Galloway, Scanlon, and Stremler
Nay: 0
12/09/2025 Council Finance and Administrative RECOMMENDED FOR
Services Committee ADOPTION
Aye: 3 Byrd, Donovan, and Buchanan
Nay: 0
12/09/2025 Council ADOPTED
Aye: 7 Buchanan, Byrd, Donovan, Elenbaas, Galloway, Scanlon, and Stremler
Nay: 0
Attachments: Proposed Ordinance, Summary Listing, Summary by Fund, Supplemental Requests, Notice of
Action Proposed on 11.18.2025
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PROPOSED BY: EXECUTIVE
INTRODUCTION DATE: 11/18/2025
ORDINANCE NO. 2025-064
AMENDMENT NO.12 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; and
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 Fund1000
101,664
(12,764)
88,900
Jail Fund 1350
980,000
-
980,000
Solid Waste Fund 1857
138,000
138,000
Real Estate Excise Tax I (REET 1) Fund 3241
1,517,000
-
1,517,000
Administrative Services Fund 5500
828,396
(243,144)1
585,252
Total Supplemental
3,565,060
1 (255,908)1
3,309,152
ADOPTED this. 9th day of December
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Civil Deputy Prosecutor
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WHATCOM COUNTY COUNCIL
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Kaylee Galloway, Chair of Council