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Yakima council holds first reading to create aquatics fund; residents press for clarity on pool maintenance money
Summary
At the Jan. 21 Yakima City Council meeting, councilmembers held the first reading of an ordinance to establish Special Revenue Fund 133 to collect and spend revenues from a 5% stormwater-fee increase to support aquatics facilities.
At the Jan. 21 Yakima City Council meeting, councilmembers held the first reading of an ordinance to establish Special Revenue Fund 133 to collect and spend revenues from a 5% increase in the city’s stormwater fee for aquatics-facility maintenance.
Brent Mahoney, director of finance and budget, told the council the proposal would not affect previously set-aside funds for the Martin Luther King pool or the other two pools and that the 5% increase is intended as a supplemental revenue stream. “This is just the additional 5% of the stormwater phase that we agreed to pull in for aquatics facilities that will be spent by the department based on the needs of the pools over and above what has been…
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