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Richland council approves budget changes, Teamsters contract and routine consent items
Summary
Council approved a 2026 budget amendment that adds roughly $900,000 in grant revenue and several restricted‑reserve expenditures, unanimously adopted a three‑year collective bargaining agreement with Teamsters Local 839, and passed the consent calendar including $40,825,476.32 in expenditures.
Richland’s City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to adopt several routine and substantive items, including a budget amendment, a successor collective bargaining agreement for dispatchers, and the consent calendar.
The budget: Finance Director Allen presented Ordinance 2026‑04, the city’s first budget adjustment of the year. The package is just over $1 million in net adjustments and is anchored by a $900,000 grant from the Washington State Department of Commerce to support master planning at the Richland Innovation Center and associated clean‑energy park areas. Other adjustments included roughly $30,000 in restricted reserves for police forensic‑lab server and concealed‑pistol storage,…
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