2023-01-10 City Council PPW Packet1.
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Edmonds City Council
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JANUARY 10, 2023, 7:30 PM
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CALL TO ORDER
COMMITTEE BUSINESS
1. On -Call Stormwater Review Services on Private Development Projects (10 min)
2. Public Works Updates (10 min)
ADJOURNMENT: 9:30 PM
Edmonds City Council Agenda
January 10, 2023
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City Council Agenda Item
Meeting Date: 01/10/2023
On -Call Stormwater Review Services on Private Development Projects
Staff Lead: Rob English
Department: Engineering
Preparer: Rob English
Background/History
Staff Recommendation
Forward item to the consent agenda for approval by City Council.
Narrative
The Stormwater Engineer over the past few years has focused the majority of their time on private
development reviews and emerging issues associated with drainage, water quality, and increased
regulatory requirements to keep the City compliant with the NPDES permit. This means that they have
not had the ability to begin work on the City's Storm & Surface Water Comprehensive Plan update.
The Stormwater Engineer needs to focus at least 50 percent of their time on updating the City's
Storm & Surface Water Comprehensive Plan (last updated 2010). This document provides the
policies, programs, capital projects, and maintenance practices to reduce flooding, improve
water quality, improve stream habitat, and meet certain regulatory requirements. This plan also
is a companion document to the City's overall Comprehensive Plan, that is currently being
updated for completion at the end of 2024. These plans should be done in unison.
The remainder of their time would be spent as follows:
o About 25 to 50 percent of the Stormwater Engineer's time needs to be set aside for
emerging issues associated with drainage, water quality, and regulatory concerns and
requirements that always arise. In addition, the Stormwater Engineer works with the
Public Works Operation & Maintenance crews on operational and maintenance issues of
the storm system, as needed.
This would only leave 0 to 25 percent of the Stormwater Engineer's time to spend on
stormwater development review.
Based on the current level of time that the Stormwater Engineer is spending on reviews, there is still a
backlog of around 30 submittals. This means that the Stormwater Engineer cannot begin work on the
Stormwater Comprehensive Plan Update. Therefore, the services of a consultant will be needed so that
the Stormwater Engineer can focus on the Stormwater Comprehensive Plan Update and allow the
stormwater reviews to continue.
Once the Storm and Surface Water Comprehensive Plan is completed and approved by City Council, the
Stormwater Engineer's time will be freed up to do more private development reviews and the on -call
consultant assistance will be significantly diminished or eliminated.
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2.1
In order to give the Stormwater Engineer time as soon as possible to begin work on the Stormwater
Comprehensive Plan update, Staff will hire a consultant to provide On -Call Stormwater Drainage Review
Services, as a short-term solution until the formal RFQ process is completed and a two-year term on call
contract is executed. A first quarter budget amendment for these services will be submitted to Finance
during the budget amendment process. A preliminary budget estimate for 2023 is $125,000. The actual
amount will depend on how much private development and permit activity occurs in 2023.
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2.2
City Council Agenda Item
Meeting Date: 01/10/2023
Public Works Updates
Staff Lead: PW Director
Department: Public Works & Utilities
Preparer: Oscar Anti Ilon
Background/History
N/A
Staff Recommendation
N/A
Narrative
Updates on various Public Works Projects or recent events.
This time will cover:
Update for the Carbon Recovery Project
Update on flooding at Dayton St
Any other questions the committee might have
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