Shoreline staff outline $83.4M in carryovers, project a $61.5M general fund balance; ordinance slated for May 5 vote

Shoreline city staff on Monday discussed Ordinance No. 1030, a combined carryover and budget‑amendment ordinance for the 2025–26 biennium, and presented the city’s unaudited 2024 year‑end financial results.

Joe Branstetter, Administrative Services Director, and Christy Hopkins, the city’s budget and tax manager, told the City Council the staff package consolidates prior separate carryover and amendment ordinances and would be scheduled for formal action on May 5.

Hopkins said carryovers are largely for unfinished projects that require one‑time funding into the new biennium. “Carryovers are used for 1 time purchases of projects that were not completed in the last biennium and need to be carried over into the current biennium,” she said. In aggregate, staff reported a total change in appropriation of about $83,400,000 and additional resources of roughly $88,500,000; capital project carryovers alone were described as being on the order of $63,000,000.

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