ORDINANCE NO. 499-N

ORDINANCE NO. 499-N

AN ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF GARFIELD, WASHINGTON, adopting the budget for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025.

WHEREAS, the mayor of the Town of Garfield, Washington completed and placed on file with the town clerk a proposed budget and estimate of the amount of the monies required to meet the public expenses, interest, reserve funds and expenses of the government of the Town of Garfield for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025. Notices were published for the following public hearings and meetings held at Garfield Town Hall at 7:00 P.M.: 2025 Preliminary Budget Hearing – October 23, 2024; 2025 Final Budget Hearing – December 11, 2024; 2025 Final Budget Adoption, Town Council Meeting – December 11, 2024, giving taxpayers within the limits of said town an opportunity to be heard upon said budget; and

WHEREAS, the Town Council did meet at said time and place and did then consider the matter of said proposed budget; and

WHEREAS, the said proposed budget does not exceed the lawful limit of taxation allowed by law to be levied on the property within the Town of Garfield for the purposes set forth in said budget, and the estimated expenditures set forth in said budget being all necessary to carry on the government of the Town of Garfield for 2025 and being sufficient to meet the various needs of the Town of Garfield during the fiscal year 2025.

THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF GARFIELD does ordain as follows:

SECTION 1. The budget for the Town of Garfield, Washington, for the year 2025 is hereby adopted at the fund level in its final form and content as set forth in the document entitled the Town of Garfield 2025 Budget, three copies of which are on file in the Office of the Town Clerk.

SECTION 2. Estimated resources, including fund balances for each separate fund of the Town of Garfield, and aggregate expenditures (net of transactions between funds) for all such funds combined, for the year 2025 are set forth below and are hereby appropriated for the expenditures at the fund level during the year 2025 as set forth below:

Fund

Estimated Revenues Estimated Expenditures

Current Expense

375,145 192,730

Current Expense Reserve

126,149 10,000

City Street Fund

146,485 86,600

City Street Reserve

70,823 5,000

Capital Facilities Project

26,709 0

Fire Capital Projects

25,760 3,000

Police Capital Projects

29,436 0

Equipment Capital Fund

37,152 0

Water (Utilities) Fund

728,008 491,530

Water Loan

0 0

Sewer Loan Redemption

843 0

Utilities Reserve

162,206 19,000

Utilities Equipment Resv.

62,436 0

Sewer Loan Reserve

33,193 0

Utility Deposits Fund

20,400 15,000

Total All Funds

1,718,596 822,860

SECTION 3. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect five days after it or a summary thereof, is published in the official newspaper of the Town of Garfield as required by law.

PASSED by the Town Council of the Town of Garfield at its regular meeting on December 11, 2024.

Jarrod Pfaff, Mayor

Attest: DonNell Ellsworth, Clerk-Treasurer

Published December 19, 2024