Commissioners give preliminary OK to Budget Amendment 3; public notice and Dec. 2 adoption planned

Thurston County budget staff presented the second review of the 2024–25 Budget Amendment 3 on Wednesday, and commissioners gave informal, unanimous direction to finalize the amendment and proceed to public notice and formal adoption.

Budget manager Summer Miller told the Board the amendment is a typical mid-fiscal-year process to capture supplemental appropriations, transfers and corrections and that staff aim to post public notice no later than Nov. 20 and bring a resolution for adoption the week of Nov. 26 or on Dec. 2.

Summary of changes: Miller said most items presented were data-entry corrections and 'errata' to clean up how figures display; staff identified no system-level changes that alter overall revenue or expenditure totals. Capital corrections included fixing a bond year referenced for courthouse-related debt; staff said these were corrections to reporting fields and not new obligations.

Board direction: After questions, the Board provided an informal thumbs-up to staff to finalize operating maintenance requests, policy requests, capital requests and errata. Miller said staff will issue the public notice and prepare the adoption resolution for the Dec. 2 meeting.

What remains: Miller noted the budget amendment is noticed but that a public hearing is not required unless there are capital-budget changes that affect the county's SIP; staff said this amendment contains no such capital changes requiring a hearing.

The Board will consider final adoption by resolution at its Dec. 2 meeting.