Mukilteo council to approve 2024 community grant recommendations

MUKILTEO, Wash., December 17, 2023—The Mukilteo City Council will be voting to approve both Community Support Grant recommendations and Co-Sponsorship Grant awards for 2024, and the 2023 Budget amendments at its Business Meeting at 6:00 p.m., Monday, December 18.

This meeting will be held both in-person and can watch the live streaming of Council Meetings at www.mukilteowa.gov, Facebook Live or Zoom.

Below are the key council agenda items. To view the full agenda, click here.

2023 Year End Budget Amendment

The Council will vote to adopt Ordinance No. 1491, amending the 2023 Budget for Facilities Maintenance, Fund 518, and formalizing a previous approved expenditure, adjusting award amount of Hotel/Motel Lodging Tax grant to the Lighthouse Festival City Staff Support.

The 2023 Year-end Budget Amendment addresses the following changes:

General Fund: Additional transfer-out to Facilities Maintenance, Fund 518, to increase various line-item expenditures by a total of $245,594.
Facilities Maintenance
- Additional transfer-in from the General Fund to increase the Facilities Maintenance fund by $245,594.
- Additional increase to City Hall expenditures: $18,794.
- Additional increase to the Mukilteo Police Dept expenditures: $24,205.
- Additional increase to the Mukilteo Fire Dept expenditures: $32,955.
- Additional increase to Public Works expenditures: $41,186.
- Additional increase to Recreation and Cultural Development expenditures: $77,509.
- Additional increase in Hawthorne Hall Utilities expenditure: $860.
- Additional increase for Lighthouse expenditures; $6,406.
- Additional increase in Salary/Wages expenditures: $29,735.
- Additional increase in Benefits expenditures: $8,427.
- Additional increase in Facilities Maintenance general operating expenditure: $5,517.
Hotel/Motel Lodging Tax: Formalizing the approved Hotel/Motel Lodging Tax grant award to the Lighthouse Festival City Staff Support from $29,000 to $33,000. Staff incorrectly recorded the grant award as $29,000 instead of $33,000

Supporting documents: AB 2023-176, AB 2023-176 Exhibit 1, AB 2023-176 Exhibit 2

2024 Community Support Grant Recommendations

Every year, the City of Mukilteo awards $10,000 in Community Grants. For both fiscal years 2024 and 2025, the award amount has increased to $50,000 each year following action from the City Council allocating American Rescue Plan Act dollars for that purpose.

The Council will vote to approve the following 2024 Community Support Grant recommendations:
City of Mukilteo Recreation & Cultural Services Senior Programs, $7,500
City of Mukilteo Recreation and Cultural Services Indoor Playground, $6,500
Mukilteo Firefighters Benevolent Fund Egg Hunt, $1,800
Mukilteo Seniors Association Osher, $2,000
Mukilteo Food Bank Refrigeration System Replacement, $7,950
South Mukilteo Rotary Foundation Rotary School Food Pantry, $2,000
South Mukilteo Rotary Foundation Rotary for Kids Holiday Shopping, $2,000
South Mukilteo Rotary Foundation Rotary Thanksgiving Baskets, $4,000
Mukilteo Mukfest Pirates of Salish Sea Mukilteo Mukfest Pirates, $1,250
Kiwanis Club of Mukilteo Lighthouse Festival Kiwanis Salmon Bake, $1,000
Mukilteo Police Foundation Police Activities League, Shop with a Cop, Chief for a Day, $4,000
Mukilteo Community Garden Mukilteo Community Garden Infrastructure Replacement Project, $1,500
Mukilteo Chamber of Commerce Connect Mukilteo Website, $1,500
Sound Salmon Solutions Environmental Education for Mukilteo Schools, $2,000
Mukilteo Family YMCA Community Nights at the YMCA, $3,000
Mukilteo Community Orchestra Mukilteo Consolidated School Student Musicians and Mukilteo Community Orchestra Joint Multigenerational Performance in Spring 2024, $2,000

Supporting documents: AB 2023-187, AB 2023-187 Exhibit 1, AB 2023-187 Exhibit 2, AB 2023-187 Exhibit 3, AB 2023-187 Exhibit 4

Co-Sponsorship Grant Awards

The City’s Co-Sponsorship program provides an opportunity for community members and groups to use facility space at Rosehill Community Center and the parks at no cost. These are nonmonetary awards and constitute facility use only.

The Council will vote to approve the recommended awards for City Co-sponsored facility use grants: