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Skagit commissioners approve third-quarter 2025 budget amendments, citing department changes and grant recording
Summary
The Board of County Commissioners voted unanimously Sept. 29 to adopt third-quarter amendments to the Skagit County 2025 budget, recording grant revenues, reallocating capital/repair funds and covering personnel and service cost adjustments across several departments.
Tricia (Tricia) Logue, director of budget and finance, presented the county’s third-quarter 2025 budget amendments during a Sept. 29 public hearing and recommended adoption after a departments’ work session earlier in the week.
Logue outlined changes in the general fund and numerous special revenue funds. Highlights presented included increased motor vehicle license revenues for the auditor (with a note that total auditor revenues may underperform), reduced coroner service requests (from an initially requested $52,530 to $33,000), administrative increases for HR attorney fees tied to collective bargaining, a $131,000 increase for Superior Court jury and interpreter expenses, and a $65,000 request in County Roads to replace a flagger truck totaled in a crash. Public Health funds recorded roughly $150,000 in cost-of-living adjustments (COLA) and line-item grant movements. Ferry funds recorded two amendments (about $262,000 and $605,000) to record federal ferry program funds for design and operational support; other ferry adjustments transferred large capital amounts into repair and maintenance for haul-out and hot-mix-asphalt projects.
Logue told commissioners the county recorded a contract cost for body-worn cameras over a five-year expense period and that insurance services added an FTE for the county security program ($75,000 for the remainder of the year). She explained that some departments recorded grant revenues received last year but spent in 2025 and that carryover and reclassification of revenues explained why some funds now show increases.
After a public hearing with no speakers for this item, Commissioner Browning moved and the board seconded to close the hearing and then voted to approve the third-quarter amendments. All three commissioners signified “aye” and the motion carried 3–0.
The amendments will be reflected in the county’s accounting records and were described as routine quarter adjustments, including reallocations between capital and repair lines and recording of federal and state grant revenues previously received.
