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Finance director outlines $2.4M variance and FTE changes in first reading of 2026 budget amendment
Summary
Finance Director Kristen Reed presented the first reading of Ordinance 2841 (2026 budget amendment #1), reporting a roughly $2.4 million variance between estimated and actual beginning fund balances, FTE adjustments, and revenue/expense changes resulting in a net increase of just over $1 million to ending fund balances.
On June 22 the Enumclaw City Council heard the first reading of Ordinance 2841, the city's first 2026 budget amendment.
Finance Director Kristen Reed told the council that the city's actual beginning fund balances were about $2,400,000 higher than estimates, primarily due to projects that were not completed by year-end and therefore rolled over into the current fiscal year. She pointed to staff-executed rollovers reflected in the ordinance and highlighted a few notable items: the media services technician position would increase from 0.5 to 1.1 FTE, and a temporary 0.5 FTE administrative specialist would be added in the finance department while new financial software is implemented.
Reed summarized aggregate changes: a revenue increase of roughly $1,400,000 (mainly from carryover grants and fund transfers) and an expense increase of about $2,600,000, producing an ending fund-balance increase of just over $1,000,000 in the amendment's projections. She noted most of the listed items had already appeared on prior consent agendas; because this was a first reading, Reed invited questions and offered to return with additional detail if requested.
No adoption vote was taken; the ordinance proceeded as a first reading.
