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File #: 2026-0333    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Regular Agenda
File created: 1/28/2026 In control: Committee of the Whole
On agenda: 3/4/2026 Final action:
Title: Ordinance 26-008, relating to the 2025-2026 Budget; making a supplemental appropriation in General Fund 002 to provide expenditure authority for the Office of Public Defense for funds received from the Washington State Office of Public Defense
Attachments: 1. Proposed Ordinance 26-008, 2. Staff Report, 3. WA State OPD Grant Agreement, 4. Ordinance Introduction Slip

 

 

Executive/Council Action Form (ECAF)

 

 

ITEM TITLE:

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Ordinance 26-008, relating to the 2025-2026 Budget; making a supplemental appropriation in General Fund 002 to provide expenditure authority for the Office of Public Defense for funds received from the Washington State Office of Public Defense

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DEPARTMENT:  Office of Public Defense

 

ORIGINATOR:  Jason Schwarz

 

EXECUTIVE RECOMMENDATION:  Approved by Alessandra Szebenyi 2/4/2026

 

PURPOSE: To provide budget authority for funds received from the Washington State Office of Public Defense for the purpose of making improvements to indigent defense.

BACKGROUND: There is a need for such supplemental appropriation because the funds which support it exceed the adopted 2025-2026 biennial budget. Grant funds from WA State were budgeted for $886,418 over the biennium and exceed this budgeted amount by $447,697.02.

 

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

EXPEND: FUND, AGY, ORG, ACTY, OBJ, AU

CURRENT YR

2ND YR

1ST 6 YRS

General Fund - Various

$447,697.02

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TOTAL

$447,697.02

 

 

 

 

REVENUE: FUND, AGY, ORG, REV, SOURCE

CURRENT YR

2ND YR

1ST 6 YRS

002 3321273833

$447,697.02

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TOTAL

$447,697.02

 

 

 

DEPARTMENT FISCAL IMPACT NOTES:  Click or tap here to enter text.

 

CONTRACT INFORMATION:

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AMOUNT

 

AMENDMENT

 

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OTHER DEPARTMENTAL REVIEW/COMMENTS:  Approved as to Form by DPA Sean Reay. Reviewed/approved by Finance (Nathan Kennedy 2/4/2026)