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Water Fund

Bellingham's Water Fund is an enterprise fund operating the city's drinking-water utility — production, distribution, treatment, and customer billing. Revenue comes from water rates charged to customers; expenditures ...

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About this fund

Bellingham's Water Fund is an enterprise fund operating the city's drinking-water utility — production, distribution, treatment, and customer billing. Revenue comes from water rates charged to customers; expenditures are operations, capital infrastructure, and debt service on water-system bonds. The Watershed Protection charge (which funds Fund 411) is a separate line item on water bills.

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Discussed in meetings

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Jun 15, 2026
The Bellingham City Council held its regular meeting on June 15, 2026, completing a moderately active agenda that included one public hearing, several actions emerging from executive session, adoption of the city's ...
Jun 15, 2026
The Bellingham City Council's Public Works and Natural Resources Committee met on June 15, 2026, to address two items: a formal vote recommending adoption of the 2027–2032 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP), and ...
Jun 01, 2026
The Bellingham City Council's Public Works and Natural Resources Committee convened on the morning of June 1, 2026, for what proved to be a brief but substantive session covering two infrastructure items with long-range ...
Jun 01, 2026
The Bellingham City Council held its regular meeting on Monday, June 1, 2026, with Council President Hannah Stone excused and Council Member Hollie Huthman presiding as Council President Pro Tempore. The council took ...
May 18, 2026
The Bellingham City Council's May 18, 2026 regular meeting was anchored by a substantive and emotionally resonant presentation from the Keep Washington Working Act (KWW) Advisory Work Group, a citizen body formed by the ...
May 18, 2026
The Bellingham City Council convened a special meeting on May 18, 2026, for a single agenda item: a closed record hearing on Agenda Bill 24940, an ordinance to vacate the eastern half (15 feet) of Fir Street abutting ...
May 12, 2026
Whatcom County's Public Works Department delivered a comprehensive quarterly update to the Council's Public Works and Health Committee during a brief 19-minute meeting on May 12, 2026. Director Costa presented updates ...
May 11, 2026
The Bellingham City Council held a compact regular meeting on May 11, 2026, completing business in under an hour. The meeting's most consequential action was the adoption of Resolution #2026-10, creating a limited-term ...
May 11, 2026
The Bellingham City Council's Parks and Recreation Committee met on May 11, 2026, for a single-item session focused entirely on AB 24926, a resolution to adopt the 2026 Parks, Recreation & Open Space Plan (commonly ...
May 11, 2026
The Bellingham City Council's Public Works and Natural Resources Committee convened on May 11, 2026, with Council Member Michael Lilliquist presiding, joined by Council Members Lisa Anderson and Dan Hammill. Council ...

Methodology note

The Water Fund (410) is operationally distinct from the Watershed Fund (411), even though both appear on water customer bills. Fund 410 funds water-system operations; Fund 411 funds property acquisitions in the source watershed.

Sources: Bellingham adopted budgets and Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports (CAFRs); Chart of Accounts; Real Briefings meeting coverage. Real Record renders the published fund data in plain language; we don't change the numbers. Where the source publishes a different classification than ours, both are shown.