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Everett council presses staff for detailed FTE, library and pool costings as budget leans on one-time funds
Summary
City staff told the Everett City Council about using roughly $5 million in one-time funds to balance the proposed 2026 general fund; council members pressed for a line-by-line account of restored FTEs, library hours and capital costs for reopening the pool before final approval.
Everett City Council members on Nov. 12 pressed city staff for detailed numbers on staffing and service restorations after staff said one-time funds were used to balance the proposed 2026 general fund budget.
“Most of those are relatively minor compared to about $5,000,000 worth of onetime monies that were transferred into the general fund to be able to balance the 2026 proposed budget,” said interim finance director Mike Bailey, who is assisting the city while staff recruit a permanent finance director. Bailey urged councilors to use the city’s six-year forecast to understand the longer-term fiscal trajectory, noting that those one-time monies "will…
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