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Pasco lobbyist outlines 2025 legislative wins; transportation requests go unfunded
Summary
City lobbyist Brianna Murray told the City Council that Pasco secured two capital appropriations but none of the city’s transportation project requests were funded in the 2025 Washington Legislature; she described large statewide budget moves that shaped outcomes.
Brianna Murray, partner at Gordon Thomas Honeywell Government Affairs, told the Pasco City Council on May 19 that the 2025 Washington Legislature approved a biennial operating budget that will raise roughly $4.3 billion in new taxes for the fiscal biennium and approved a $77.8 billion budget for 2025–27 that she said included $2.3 billion in reserves.
Murray said Pasco won two capital appropriations: $927,000 for the MLK Community Center phase 3 (she noted $27,000 of that is for a Department of Commerce administrative fee) and $500,000 for Road 80 neighborhood improvements. She also said the city’s three transportation funding…
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