Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Chelan City Council acts on water project grant, Lakeside Trail amendment

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CHELAN – Approval of a grant from the Rural Counties Tax Funds for capacity upgrades to the Washington Street Booster Pump Station took a step closer at last week’s bi-monthly city council meeting when the council authorized Mayor Erin McCardle to finalize and execute the Chelan County Cascade Public Infrastructure Fund Grant Interlocal Agreement.

“A couple months back, we applied for one of the grants from the public infrastructure fund the county has,” said City Administrator Wade Farris, “The committee decided to grant the city $300,000 for Washington Street water projects, and before you is an MOU (Memo of Understanding) of a formal acceptance event.”

SCJ Alliance 

Public Works Director Jake Youngren proposed an amendment to the SCJ Alliance design contract for the Lakeside Trail project to include additional services. 

“SCJ proposed to sub-consult with two different companies,” said Youngren. “One for right-of-way services and another for design.”

“We have 22 parcels we need to coordinate approaches with along the frontage of the trail,” said. Youngren. “We need to work with each one of those property owners on determining how we are going to connect to their parcel and get easements and permissions to do so.”

Following a brief exchange, the council approved the SCJ Alliance amendments.

TBD meeting

While the city awaits the voter results of the proposed Transportation Benefit District (TBD) on the Nov. 5 general election ballot, Human Resources Director Chad Coltman recapped recent developments to the city’s six-year State Transportation Improvement Plan (STIP).

Coltman said that following an extensive public outreach campaign, some changes were proposed at the previous council meeting.

Notable additions to the STIP include:

  • Studies around downtown traffic.
  • Studies around Lakeside parking.
  • Remediation of Woodin Avenue Bridge back to two ways of traffic.

Coltman said the city will “continue to educate the public on what it means to have a TBD, how transportation funding works in our city, how other cities around the state have also adopted TBDs, and how those dollars would improve transportation in the city.”

Mike Maltais: 360-333-8483 or michael@ward.media

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