Information

Type: Hearing - Resolution

Department: BUD - Budget

Directors' Update: Sept. 10, 2025

Business Meeting: Sept. 16, 2025

Summary:

Budget Amendment Hearing for the 2025 Budget

Publications:

Cover Letter To:

Additional Copies To: Noah Hudson, Arny Davis, Grace Jimenez, Tom Stanton, and Larry Grove

Resolution

WHEREAS, this matter coming on for hearing pursuant to public notice as provided by law, all members being present and there being no objection, and the same having been published in The Chronicle on September 4 and 11, 2025; and

WHEREAS, RCW 36.40.140 includes provisions, when a public emergency not of the type described in RCW 36.40.180 occurs, for the expenditure of money not provided for at the time of setting of the budget through a hearing and a majority vote of the commissioners; and

WHEREAS, information exists which could not reasonably have been determined at the time of setting of the original budget, which now constitutes the need to appropriately include such information in the financial accounts and records of the County; and all members of the Board of County Commissioners of Lewis County, Washington, having had reasonable notice of time, place and purpose of this meeting; and

WHEREAS, RCW 36.40.100 includes provisions for transfers or revisions within departments, or supplemental appropriations to the budget from unanticipated federal or state funds may be made; and

WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of Lewis County has determined that it is necessary and in the public interest to amend the adopted Capital Infrastructure Plan for the current year, 2025, to reflect updated priorities and project needs.

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that total expenditures in the amount of $11,220,630 be increased and total revenue in the amount of $6,926,476 be increased, resulting in a decrease in the estimated ending fund balance in the amount of $4,294,154. Funds will be placed in the budgets within Current Expense and other funds as indicated and distributed in the revenue and expenditure accounts detailed in the Attachment A, including the details for expenditures not provided for at the time of setting of the budget under RCW 36.40.140 and RCW 36.40.100; and

NOW THEREFORE BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Capital Infrastructure Plan be amended as reflected in the Attachment B.

DONE IN OPEN SESSION this 16th day of September, 2025.