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Ordinance – 2025 – 2026 Operating Budget Amendment - 1
ORDINANCE NO. 4777
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF PASCO, WASHINGTON,
AMENDING THE 2025-2026 BIENNIAL OPERATING BUDGET
(ORDINANCE NO. 4749), BY PROVIDING SUPPLEMENT THERETO; TO
PROVIDE ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATION IN THE CITY’S WATER AND
IRRIGATION FUNDS AND DECLARING THAT AN EMERGENCY EXISTS.
WHEREAS, on December 9, 2024, the Pasco City Council approved Ordinance No. 4749,
adopting the 2025-2026 Biennial Operating Budget; and
WHEREAS, the 2025-2026 Biennial Operating Budget did not include allocations for
upsize contributions in Water or Irrigation Utilities, yet the need for City contribution to
development efforts is now anticipated and necessary to provide the adequate system components
to effectively serve the growing customer base; and
WHEREAS, developers are required to install infrastructure in accordance with long
range planning documents, such as Comprehensive Water System Plan and Irrigation Masterplan,
to account for system needs beyond the individual development demands for the purpose of
providing for the future needs of the City; and
WHEREAS, Pasco City Council approved Ordinance No. 4457 adopting the “Design and
Construction Standards and Specifications for Public Works Improvements”; and
WHEREAS, in accordance with development guidelines, specifically Chapter 1 -
General, Section 12. Utility Oversizing, of the “Design and Construction standards and
specifications for Public Works Improvements” developers may request to enter an oversizing
agreement for reimbursement of upsize costs for improvements in excess of the size necessary to
serve their development; and
WHEREAS, oversizing contributions are funded via capital expansion funds, which
funded by capital expansion fees collected at time of development and capital expansion fees are
a restricted fund utilized to support expansion of the utility system; and
WHEREAS, multiple agreements for oversizing have been requested and estimates of
oversizing contributions have been determined for each utility resulting in the proposed budget
amendment amounts necessitating an emergency expenditure under RCW 35A.34.150 with an
estimated amount of $2,150,000.00 required to meet the emergency expenditure.
Ordinance – 2025 – 2026 Operating Budget Amendment - 2
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PASCO,
WASHINGTON DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Pursuant to RCW 35A.34. 150, the City Council adopts the above
Whereases as the facts constituting the emergency which could not have been reasonably foreseen
at the time of filing the preliminary budget, declare that an emergency exists, and state that the
following estimated amounts are required to meet the emergency as follows:
Fund EXPENDITURE REVENUE
Water Utility Fund $1,300,000
Irrigation Utility Fund $850,000
Total $2,150,000.00
Section 2. That the additions in appropriations and expenditures are hereby declared
to exist in the above funds for the said uses and purposes as shown above, and the proper City
officials are hereby authorized and directed to issue warrants and transfer funds in accordance
with the provision of the Ordinance.
Section 3. Except as amended herein, Ordinance No. 4749 as previously adopted
heretofore shall remain unchanged.
Section 4. Severability. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or word
of this ordinance should be held to the invalid or unconstitutional by a court of competent
jurisdiction, such invalidity or unconstitutionality thereof shall not affect the validity or
constitutionality of any other section, subsection, sentence, clause phrase or word of this
Ordinance.
Section 5. Corrections. Upon approval by the city attorney, the city clerk or the code
reviser are authorized to make necessary corrections to this Ordinance, including scrivener’s errors
or clerical mistakes; reference to other local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations; or
numbering or referencing of ordinances or their sections and subsections.
Section 6. Effective Date. This Ordinance, being an exercise of a power specifically
delegated to the City legislative body, is not subject to referendum, and shall take full force and
effect five (5) days after approval, passage, and publication as required by law.
Ordinance – 2025 – 2026 Operating Budget Amendment - 3
PASSED by the City Council of the City of Pasco, Washington, on this 23rd day of June,
2025.
Pete Serrano
Mayor
ATTEST: APPROVED AS TO FORM:
_____________________________ ___________________________
Debra Barham, CMC Kerr Ferguson Law, PLLC
City Clerk City Attorneys
Published: Sunday, June 29, 2025