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File #: AB2025-558    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Introduced
File created: 7/23/2025 Meeting Body Council Finance and Administrative Services Committee
On agenda: 9/9/2025 Final action:
Enactment date: Enactment #:
Title: Ordinance amending the 2025 Whatcom County Budget, request no. 9, in the amount of $956,986
Indexes: Budget / Finance / Revenue, Conservation Futures, Elections, Emergency Management, Health and Safety, Jail, Sheriff
Attachments: 1. Proposed Ordinance, 2. Summary Listing, 3. Summary by Fund, 4. Supplemental Requests
Related files: AB2025-559
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Primary Contact Email:    atan@co.whatcom.wa.us

 

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Ordinance amending the 2025 Whatcom County Budget, request no. 9, in the amount of $956,986

 

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Supplemental #9 requests funding from the General Fund:

1.                     To appropriate $182,310 in Health to fund On Site Sewage Systems Action Plan projects using grant funds.

From the Election Reserve Fund:

2.                     To appropriate $40,000 in Auditor to fund local election security improvements using grant funds.

From the Conservation Futures Fund:

3.                     To appropriate $332,000 in Planning & Development to fund previously approved easements for Jacoby property, partially using grant funds.

4.                     To appropriate $100,000 in Non Departmental to fund demolition of two houses in Acme floodplain for RCO grant reimbursement.

From the Whatcom County Jail Fund:

5.                     To appropriate $230,000 in Sheriff to fund healthcare services provided to detainees at the jail through St. Joseph Hospital.

From the Emergency Management Fund:

6.                     To appropriate $41,258 in Sheriff to fund swift water rescue training and equipment.

7.                     To appropriate $31,418 in Sheriff to fund Incident Management Team equipment and training.




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