City Council was scheduled to consider a Q3 budget amendment totaling about $14.3 million on Sept. 22

What the records say

Materials for the Sept. 22, 2025 Marysville City Council meeting included an ordinance amending the 2025-26 biennial budget, originally adopted as Ordinance 3325, with a recommended motion to adopt. The attached Q3 budget memo describes the amendment as course corrections based on information not available at budget adoption, with revenue adjustments totaling $8,218,141 and expenditure adjustments totaling $14,269,337. The ordinance's fund tables show the same totals. Specific items include $2,876,300 in utility taxes transferred from the Solid Waste fund to the General Fund for 2022-2025, an additional $2,000,000 in school mitigation fee revenue passed through to the school district, funding for converting a second Strawberry Fields field to artificial turf, police firearms replacement, and security upgrades (HVAC, fencing, cameras) at the Police Evidence Building ¹.

• The Sept. 22, 2025 agenda included an ordinance amending the 2025-26 biennial budget (Ordinance 3325), with a recommended motion to adopt ¹.
• The attached memo states revenue adjustments total $8,218,141 and expenditure adjustments total $14,269,337; the ordinance's fund tables show matching grand totals ¹.
• Specific items include $2,876,300 in utility taxes from recycling revenues moved from the Solid Waste fund to the General Fund for 2022-2025, and $2,000,000 in school mitigation fees received over the original budget and passed through to the school district ¹.
• The amendment funds conversion of a second Strawberry Fields field to artificial turf, replacement of police firearms, and HVAC, fencing, and camera upgrades at the Police Evidence Building ¹.

Why it matters

Mid-biennium budget amendments shift money between funds and spending categories after the budget was originally approved, which affects what services and projects the city funds in the current cycle. The largest single movement here — $2.88 million in recycling-related utility taxes into the General Fund and $2 million in school mitigation fees passed to the school district — plus new spending on parks turf, police equipment, and facility security shows where the city is redirecting resources this year ¹.

What changed / what's next

• The proposed ordinance would amend the 2025-26 biennial budget with $8,218,141 in revenue adjustments and $14,269,337 in expenditure adjustments across multiple funds, per the attached memo and ordinance tables ¹.
• The available records do not establish the meeting's outcome; this is a pre-meeting agenda packet and no vote result from Sept. 22, 2025 is included ¹.
• The memo is dated September 19, 2026 in its header while the ordinance attachment is dated 09/19/25; the records do not explain the discrepancy, though the ordinance text and fund tables are internally consistent ¹.