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Wednesday night the Everett City Council got a briefing on the 2021 budget from the City of Everett administration. Among the topics was a list of “Balancing Options” that are under consideration to reduce the City of Everett 2021 budget by $15 million dollars. Many of these actions were taken earlier this year to reduce […]

Prior to the COVID-19 Pandemic the City of Everett, Washington was facing a $13 million dollar budget deficit for 2021. Today during a public Question and Answer session on social media, Everett Mayor Cassie Franklin revealed that gap has grown to $18 million dollars. Back in April the Everett City Council voted approval of $3.4 […]

Editor’s Update Saturday April 25th: Received word from Everett City Council member and chair of the Budget Committee, Scott Murphy. He wanted to make sure that citizens are aware that while the cuts in the amendment that the council voted on include actions through 2021 these are just assumptions and there is nothing legally binding […]

The economic impacts of the Coronavirus Pandemic are being felt in Everett and Snohomish County. The City of Everett recently expanded the list of those eligible to apply for early retirement to include members of the City’s Transit Union. Now Snohomish County is looking at multiple measures. Here’s what the County Executive and County Council […]

The Everett City Council passed the 2020 budget at their meeting Wednesday night. They had the third and final public hearing on the budget and as with the previous two public hearings no citizens had comment or input. With a unanimous vote the city council passed the budget. The Mayor did mention that in the […]

7:45 PM Editor’s Update: There were no speakers in the first public hearing on the budget tonight. There is another public hearing next Wednesday night. Today Everett Mayor Cassie Franklin gave her 2020 budget address. The Mayor was joined by Scott Murphy who is the chair of the Everett City Council budget committee. The address […]

OK, the amount is actually $649,986,342.00. On Wednesday Mayor Cassie Franklin will make her 2020 budget address. She has scheduled a media availability at 10 AM in the City Council chambers. There she will be joined by Everett City Council Member Scott Murphy. He is Chair of the Council Budget and Finance Subcommittee. The Mayor […]

On Wednesday, the Everett City Council will be asked to authorize the Mayor to spend $165,000.00 over the next twelve months on digital marketing campaigns targeting tourists in key markets. The Mayor wants the council to authorize a media spend of $136,000.00 in net media placements plus another $29,000.00 for service fees and research and […]

Actually it’s more than half-a-billion, the full total is $618,984,772.00. On Wednesday the Everett City Council will hold the first of three readings of an ordinance setting the 2019 budget. A public hearing and final reading and vote on the ordinance is set for Wednesday November 28th. This is the first budget for Everett Mayor […]

Everett Mayor Cassie Franklin is about to present her first budget to the Everett City Council. In the lead-up to that the Mayor is presenting a revised organizational chart for city staffing with new departments and net staff reductions. In an address to the City Council on September 19th Mayor Franklin said in part, “It’s […]