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Council to correct $34,000 buoy purchase after budget language omission

Bonney Lake City Council · February 3, 2026
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Summary

Council members said a previously approved ordinance to buy buoys for the lake lacked an advertised funding source; staff said the purchase will be corrected and returned to council next week so it can be charged to ending fund balance.

Council members flagged a $34,000 buoy purchase for the city lake that had been approved in an agenda bill but, the council was told, lacked language in the advertised budget identifying ending fund balance as the source.

City budget staff (Sherry) told the council that the budget had been advertised and approved without language authorizing use of ending fund balance, so staff did not have authority to spend from that source. “There was nothing in…

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