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Council adopts first 2025–26 budget amendment to true up carryovers and add new projects
Summary
The council passed Ordinance O625 on March 4, 2025, amending the 2025–26 biennial budget to true up beginning balances and project carryovers, recognize new revenues for consulting and transportation projects, and appropriate additional funds; the revised budget total reported was $152,746,642.
Finance Director Erin Glenn presented the council with the first amendment to the 2025–26 biennial budget during the March 4 meeting. Glenn said the amendment primarily “trues up” beginning balances and budgets for projects that began in the prior biennium and will continue. The finance department was reported to be 99% complete with closing fiscal year 2024, and this amendment adjusts each fund’s beginning balance to match the close-out.
Glenn identified three items that were not simple carryovers. First, the amendment recognizes $484,795 in general fund revenue tied to contracts with Frank Teague LLC and Lewis and Clark Master Planning Services and appropriates the same amount for a BERC contract approved in January. Second, it recognizes $782,000 in fund 355 revenue from a Transportation Improvement Board (TIB) grant plus a $138,000 transfer from fund 301, and appropriates $920,000 for the King Road South Highlands intersection modification project. Third, it recognizes a $800,000 transfer from fund 301 for the Keene Road subgrade and pump intake project and appropriates $1,038,076 for that project; Glenn said the remaining $238,076 will come from fund balance.
Overall, the amendment “authorizes an increase in the 2025–26 appropriations in the amount of $12,262,876 and an increase in total resources in the amount of $19,567,184, bringing the revised budget to a total of $152,746,642,” Glenn said. After no public comment, council moved and adopted Ordinance O625 by voice vote.
Votes at a glance: the council also approved the meeting agenda as amended and approved the consent agenda (which included approval of the Feb. 18, 2025 minutes; authorization of Amendment No. 1 to the herbicide application service contract with Sinski and Trees Lawn and Tree Service; authorization for the chief to sign or ratify an interlocal agreement with the Washington Traffic Safety Commission; and authorization for the mayor to execute an engineering services contract with GEO Engineers regarding the Well 12R improvement project, phase 1). Those consent items were approved by voice vote with no separate public comment recorded.
