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Pierce County Council advances budget process, adopts several capital plans and utility programs
Summary
At its Nov. 18 session, the Pierce County Council adopted multiple planning documents tied to the 2026–27 budget — including airports and airport capital plans, the transportation improvement program, the drinking water plan, the surface water improvement program and the sewer improvement plan — and continued key budget trailer ordinances to Nov. 25 for final assembly.
Pierce County’s elected council moved several large planning documents forward on Nov. 18 as it continued work on the 2026–27 biennial budget.
The council adopted the airports capital improvement program, which staff said identifies projects for both Dunfield and Tacoma Narrows airports and lists roughly $11.8 million in expenditures for the biennium supported largely by Federal Aviation Administration grants. Erica Rhett Hunt, senior policy analyst, told councilmembers the airports CIP was amended in committee and “identifies a total of 11,800,000.0 in expenditures for the biennium, which are heavily supported by grants from the FAA.” The ordinance passed on a unanimous roll call.
Separately the council approved an ordinance that…
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