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File #: AB2025-220    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Introduced
File created: 3/3/2025 In control: Council Finance and Administrative Services Committee
On agenda: 3/25/2025 Final action:
Enactment date: Enactment #:
Title: Ordinance amending the 2025 Whatcom County Budget, request no. 3, in the amount of $1,485,889
Indexes: Budget / Finance / Revenue
Attachments: 1. Proposed Ordinance, 2. Summary Listing, 3. Supplemental Requests, 4. Summary by Fund, 5. Substitute Summary Listing
Related files: AB2025-222
Department Finance Division
Primary Contact Email: atan@co.whatcom.wa.us

TITLE FOR AGENDA ITEM:
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Ordinance amending the 2025 Whatcom County Budget, request no. 3, in the amount of $1,485,889

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SUMMARY STATEMENT OR LEGAL NOTICE LANGUAGE:

Supplemental #3 requests funding from the General Fund:
1. To appropriate $8,400 in Superior Court Clerk to fund the continuation of the water rights grant for Clerk operations.
2. To appropriate $150,000 in Planning and Development Services to fund the Birch Bay incorporation feasibility study.
3. To appropriate $9,537 in Sheriff to fund 2025 Operation Stonegarden FY21 grant.
4. To appropriate $4,392 in Sheriff to fund Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force grant RL-23-0010.
5. To appropriate $1,292 in Sheriff to fund Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force grant RL-23-0003.
6. To appropriate $5,000 in Sheriff to fund Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force grant RL-23-0008.
7. To appropriate $3,908 in Sheriff to fund Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force grant RL-23-0005.
8. To appropriate $27,028 in Sheriff to fund Recreational Boating Safety grant.
9. To appropriate $225,000 in Superior Court Administration to fund continuation of the water rights grant for Superior Court operations.
10. To appropriate $125,600 in Superior Court Administration to fund continuation of water rights grant for purchase of JAVS system and related technology.
From the American Rescue Plan Act Fund:
11. To appropriate $113,100 in Non-Departmental to fund the Public Utilities District No. 1 broadband contract.
12. To appropriate $0 in Non-Departmental to fund the Public Utilities District No. 1 broadband contract companion.
From Affordable Housing and Behaivioral Health Fund:
13. To appropriate $0 in Health to fund Jail and Juvenile behavioral health contracts. (Item revised 3.11.2025 to remove $211,000 from this line item)
From Real Estate Excise Tax II Fund:
14. To appropriate $97,750 in Non-Departmental to fund transfer out for the Silver L...

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