Lobbyist outlines 2025 Washington budget outcomes affecting Kitsap Transit: gas tax increase, sales‑tax transfer and reappropriations

KITSAP COUNTY, Wash. — Dylan Doty, a statewide transit lobbyist, briefed the Kitsap Transit board on May 6 about the recently concluded 2025 Washington legislative session and provisions that affect transit funding and projects.

Doty summarized a session that combined several billion dollars of new revenue with spending reductions; he described “about $5,000,000,000 in cuts, coupled with roughly $9–10,000,000,000 in new revenue” in the state operating picture and noted the governor has until May 20 to sign or veto bills. He said the transportation budget raised roughly $3.2 billion for transportation over six years, highlighted a 6¢ indexed gas‑tax increase and a 0.1 cent sales‑tax transfer from the state general fund to transportation that will bring roughly $600…