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Puget Sound Partnership briefs council on budget pressures and legislative priorities as members debate land-use, floodplain and housing tradeoffs
Summary
Don from the partnership outlined a constrained 2026 legislative environment with a ~ $2 billion revenue shortfall and priorities to protect capital grant programs, accelerate permitting for restoration, and address toxic stormwater/6PPD. Council discussion focused on linking salmon recovery with housing and regional planning, and on convening forums to reconcile land-use pressures with floodplain protections.
Don, a partnership legislative lead, gave a session briefing that framed the 2026 Washington short-session as dominated by budgetary constraints and elections. He told the council the legislature faces roughly a $2 billion revenue shortfall from previous forecasts and that supplemental budgets will prioritize emergent needs and capital projects that can be timed with bond and CCA resources.
"The legislature has about $2,000,000,000 less in revenue for the current biennium and next biennium than they thought they did when they left Olympia last session," Don told members, and…
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