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Sammamish opens mid-biennium budget hearing, council directs $200,000 for resident food support and opens property-tax hearing
Summary
Sammamish held a public hearing Nov. 5 on mid-biennium amendments to the 2025-26 budget and opened the 2026 property-tax hearing; staff presented adjustments and council directed staff to set aside $200,000 from fund balance for human-services assistance to residents missing SNAP benefits.
The Sammamish City Council opened public hearings Nov. 5 on mid-biennium amendments to the 2025-26 budget and on the 2026 property tax levy. Vicky Carlson, finance director, presented the mid-biennium package and described the difference between amendments (net changes to fund totals) and adjustments (no net change).
Carlson called out several items in the general fund and other funds: a beginning fund-balance truing-down of $96,000; an affordable-housing addition of $1,100,000 that is both revenue and expenditure (net zero); an insurance reimbursement that produces a net $5,000 increase in expenditures; and a $60,000 cost increase for Fourth of July fireworks that will be…
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