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In describing her proposed 2024 budget, Mayor Cassie Franklin told MyEverettNews.com her top priorities were public safety and protecting the most vulnerable residents of Everett, Washington. Tonight she delivered her sixth budget address as Mayor to the Everett City Council. The citywide expenditure budget is $438.8 million dollars. The citywide revenue budget is coming in […]

At last Wednesday’s City Council meeting the Everett City Council unanimously approved (council member Vogeli was absent) spending $187,500.00 to fund and manage a contract with a security provider to offer increased security in downtown Everett, Washington. According to the summary provided to the City Council the money is coming from Snohomish County who is […]

Wednesday night the Everett City Council will begin the first of three public hearings on the proposed City of Everett, Washington budget for 2023. In past years community members have not really weighed in on the budget process with little to no testimony during the public hearings. This year there may be more interest as […]

Editor’s Update 9/22/22: Here is a link to the City of Everett Budget page with a schedule of public hearings and ways to get involved in the process. Here’s a link to the printed text of the Mayor’s budget message. Tonight Cassie Franklin, Mayor of Everett, Washington gave her fifth budget address to the Everett […]

Wednesday night the Everett City Council unanimously passed the budget for 2022 in the amount of $761,494,955.00. In addition, 6 of 7 city councilmembers approved an amendment that added eight more uniform positions to the Everett Police Department with four of those being designated for the bicycle unit. The amendment was proposed by Scott Murphy […]

Editor’s Update Thursday 9/30/2021: Here is the link to the full text of the Mayor’s 2022 Budget Address. Tonight Everett Mayor Cassie Franklin presented her 2022 budget address. This year there will not be any cuts to city staff as in past years and in fact some new positions are being proposed. Also as part […]

Last year Everett Mayor Cassie Franklin asked 13 community leaders to join a Fiscal Sustainability Advisory Committee. “I called together this stakeholder committee to explore our fiscal options and advise City leadership on ways we can address the very serious revenue challenges we face,” said Franklin. On December 2nd the committee issued their final report […]

The Everett City Council has taken a more vocal role in budget planning this year and that has led to extended briefings and later decisions in adopting a balanced budget for 2021. On November 1st Everett City Council members put several items into a “parking lot” for further explanation and consideration. Those included so-called “Quality […]

This Wednesday the Everett City Council will hold the first of three public hearings as it considers the 2021 budget. Next year’s budget is actually more than half-a-billion dollars at $651.9 million. Last Wednesday the Everett City Council received a briefing on the budget from the Mayor and Finance staff. You can see that briefing […]

Everett Mayor Cassie Franklin made her initial budget proposal for 2021 to the city council Wednesday night. The Mayor told the council members that this has undeniably been the most difficult year Everett has faced in her lifetime and that of the council members. There is currently a $10 million dollar shortfall in the budget […]