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Tumwater budget update: sales, lodging taxes rise; city avoids dipping into reserves
Summary
City finance staff told the Budget & Finance Committee that 2025 sales tax receipts were $212,000 (2.1%) higher than 2024 and lodging tax rose 26.8%. Troy reported a roughly $1.3 million revenue shortfall offset by about $6 million in expenditure savings, leaving reserves intact.
Troy, a finance staff member presenting the monthly update to Tumwater’s Budget & Finance Committee on Feb. 27, said the city finished most of 2025 with stronger-than-expected activity in some revenue streams while noting pockets of shortfall.
“Overall, $212,000 more collected in 2025 than in 2024,” Troy said when summarizing sales-tax results, a 2.1% year-over-year increase. He also told the committee lodging tax rose about 26.8% over 2024, crediting several hotels returning to service as a driver of that gain.
The presentation shifted to a budget-to-actual view. Troy said the city’s budgeted general fund revenue for 2025 was $48.9 million and that, before…
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