Budget & Finance Committee
Regular MeetingTumwater, WA · October 24, 2025
Minutes
MEETING MINUTES
TUMWATER BUDGET & FINANCE COMMITTEE
October 24, 2025
CONVENE: 12:00 p.m.
PRESENT: Mayor/Chair Debbie Sullivan, and Councilmembers Michael
Althauser, Peter Agabi and Eileen Swarthout.
Staff: City Administrator Lisa Parks, Assistant City Administrator
Kelly Adams, Finance Director Troy Niemeyer, Senior
Accountant Nissa Musselman, City Attorney Karen Kirkpatrick,
and Paralegal Sharleen Johansen.
APPROVAL OF Councilmember Swarthout moved, seconded by
MINUTES: Councilmember Althauser, to approve the minutes of
September 26, 2025 as presented. A voice vote approved the
motion.
MONTHLY FINANCIAL Director Niemeyer gave a budget update regarding:
UPDATE:
• Sales Tax
• Public Safety Sales Tax
• B&O Tax
• Lodging Tax - Tourism
• General fund revenues & expenditures – Year to Date
• Water, sewer and stormwater revenues & expenditures
• Golf revenues & expenditures
Director Niemeyer discussed current economic risks which
include the government shutdown and the effects that it may
have on the local economy.
The Committee discussed how local businesses are being
affected by the current economy.
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ADJOURNMENT: With there being no further business, Chair Sullivan
adjourned the meeting at 12:29 p.m.
Prepared by Brittaney McClanahan, Executive Assistant
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Agenda
BUDGET & FINANCE COMMITTEE
MEETING AGENDA
Online via Zoom and In Person at
Tumwater City Hall, Council Conference
Room, 555 Israel Rd. SW, Tumwater, WA
98501
Friday, October 24, 2025
12:00 PM
1. Call to Order
2. Roll Call
3. Approval of Minutes: Budget & Finance Committee, September 26, 2025
4. Monthly Financial Update (Finance Department)
5. Additional Items
6. Adjourn
Meeting Information
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telephone or online via Zoom.
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