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File #: AB2024-775    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Substitute Introduced
File created: 11/7/2024 In control: Council Finance and Administrative Services Committee
On agenda: 12/3/2024 Final action:
Enactment date: Enactment #:
Title: Ordinance amending the 2024 Whatcom County Budget, request no. 15, in the amount of $12,651,067
Indexes: American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), Budget / Finance / Revenue, Health and Safety, Public Works, Stormwater, Utilities, Water Adjudication
Attachments: 1. Proposed Ordinance, 2. Summary Listing, 3. Supplemental Requests, 4. Substitute Ordinance, 5. Substitute Summary Listing, 6. Substitute Supplemental Requests
Department Finance Division
Primary Contact Email: atan@co.whatcom.wa.us

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Ordinance amending the 2024 Whatcom County Budget, request no. 15, in the amount of $12,651,067

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SUMMARY STATEMENT OR LEGAL NOTICE LANGUAGE:

Supplemental #14 requests funding from the General Fund:
1. To appropriate $44,000 in District Court to fund inflated costs in jury expenses.
2. To appropriate $25,000 in Superior Court to fund installation of JAVS system for Water Adjudication.
3. To appropriate $99,500 in Superior Court to fund pretrial services expenditures funded by Administrative Office of the Courts grant.
4. To appropriate $25,000 in Superior Court Clerk to fund inflation in registration, training, membership dues, and overtime.
5. To appropriate $100,000 in Superior Court Clerk to fund conflict counsel professional services costs.
6. To record a revenue appropriation of $7,500,000 in Sheriff to accept American Resuce Plan Act revenue loss transfer to facilitate spending on general government services companion to suppl #4825.
7. To appropriate $7,500,000 in Non-Departmental to fund transfer of General Fund savings to the Community Priorities Fund companion to suppl #4825.
8. To appropriate $712,718 in Non-Departmental to fund transfer for the Central Shop Underground Storage Tank Removal project budget companion to suppl #4814.
9. To appropriate $78,000 in Non-Departmental to fund transfer for security screening services companion to suppl #4822.
10. To appropriate $108,546 in Non-Departmental to fund increased utilities costs companion to suppl #4821.
From the Road Fund:
11. To appropriate $2,373,819 in Public Works to fund transfers for the Central Shop Underground Storage Tank Removal project budget and the N. Fork Road/Kenny Creek Fish Passage project budget companion to suppls #4814 and #4815.
12. To appropriate $15,669 in Public Works to fund increased utilities costs companion to suppl #4821.
From the Elections Fund:
13. To appropriate $2,617 to fund increased...

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