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Everett council advances budget actions; staff outline 2025 amendments and 2026 appropriation
Summary
Council advanced the third reading of the 2026 budget ordinance and reviewed a lengthy set of 2025 budget amendments, including pre-funding CIP, vehicle and fuel infrastructure needs, pension contribution increases and a $2.6 million purchase for a new police property-room building; transcript contains a numeric discrepancy in the 2026 appropriation that requires clarification.
Everett City Council on Nov. 19 conducted third-reading actions and extended discussion around the citys 2026 budget and several 2025 budget amendments.
President Schwab read council bill 2 5 1 0-60 described as the ordinance appropriating the citys 2026 budget. The ordinance text recorded in the meeting included an amount stated as $943,826,973 followed immediately by an apparent correction in the record to "828,973," a discrepancy staff said they would clarify. Council scheduled the final (third) reading for Dec. 10, 2025 when the ordinance…
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