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Home My WebLink About01-26-1998PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE MINUTES JANUARY 26, 1998 I. CALL TO ORDER The meeting was called to order at 4:32 p.m. Those in attendance were Mayor Booth, Committee Chairman Rich Wagner, Council/Committee member Gene Cerino and Council/Committee member Fred Poe. Staff in attendance were Public Works Director Frank A. Currie, City Engineer Dennis Dowdy, Senior Engineer Dennis Selle, Utilities Engineer Dwight Holobaugh, Traffic Engineer Steve Mullen, Water Utility Engineer Carl T. Every City staff member Ken Olson, Sanitary Sewer Engineer Jeff Roscoe, Water Quality Program Coordinator Chris Thorn, Finance Director Diane Supler, and Public Works Secretary Laurie Scheder, Guests in attendance were Gregory J. Kirmeyer, Vice President of Economic and Engineering Services, Inc. and Lou Hoefert, citizen. II. ISSUES A. RESOLUTION NO. 2911 (scrivener error, agenda showed 2991), AUTHORIZES AN IMPLEMENTATION AGREEMENT WITH KING COUNTY, THROUGH ITS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, TO DO WORK RELATING TO THE COMMUTE TRIP REDUCTION ACT (CTR), ESTIMATED AT $20,747 FOR THE YEAR City Engineer Dennis Dowdy presented Resolution No. 2911 authorizing implementation with King County, to do work relating to the Commute Trip Reduction Act. After a brief discussion by Steve Mullen on the program's effectiveness, the Public Works Committee recommended approval to the City Council at the February 2, 1998 meeting. III. CONSENT A. PERMISSION TO ADVERTISE FOR BIDS FOR PR 599, 1998 WATERLINE IMPROVEMENTS The Public Works Committee recommended approval to the City Council at the February 2, 1998 meeting. PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE MINUTES JANUARY 26, 1998 PAOE 2 OF 4 B. AWARD CONTRACT NO. 98-07, TO ROBISON CONSTRUCTION ON THEIR LOW BID OF $1,526,543, PLUS TAX FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THREE LEA HILL WATER PIPELINES (PROJECT NOS. 609, 610, 611) AND ONE SEWER EXTENSION (PROJECT NO. 618) The Public Works Committee recommended approval to the City Council at their February 2, 1998. IV. INFORMATION OR DISCUSSION A. WATER COST OF SERVICE - 1998 UPDATE This item was pulled from the packet and will be revisited at a later date. B. CORROSION CONTROL Water Utility Engineer Carl T. Every and Gregory J. Kirmeyer, Vice President of Economic and Engineering Services, Inc. presented an overview of the Corrosion Control Program.. Items of discussion were the agreement, preferred treatment methods, treatment sites, and projected costs. This project will bid in the fall of 1999, construction to begin in December 2000. C. STREET DESIGN STANDARDS COMMITTEE INPUT Staff received the Public Works Committee' s input for the remainder of the draft and will retum to the Public Works Committee for final review and adoption. D. CAPITAL PROJECTS STATUS REPORT During discussion of capital projects Councilmember Poe asked that the Mckesson Water Proposal and the B Street LID status be briefed at the next Public Works Committee meeting. The following items, E. through G. which were not on the Agenda, were brought up and discussed: E. 277th SANITARY SEWER MAIN This item was added to the agenda during the meeting. Utility Engineer Dwight Holobaugh briefed the Public Works Committee on the need to move forward into the advanced planning and pre-design effort to analyze the merits of two alternatives that the parties: Metro, Auburn, Soos Creek, and Kent can agree to ' . PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE MINUTES JANUARY 26, 1998 PAGE 3 OF 4 cost share. The 1998 sewer budget authorizes this project. The City anticipates finalizing negotiations with CTE for a Phase I Pre-design effort, which will advance the alternative comparisons sufficient to allow the parties to select the preferred alternative. Within a week the Mayor will be executing the design contract. F. PUGET SOUND ENERGY NEGOTIATION ON CENTRAL STORM PHASE IB, C8046 This item was added to the agenda during the meeting in order to expedite negotiations. Since the last meeting Puget has indicated a staff shortage, which prevents immediate assessment of the impacts of the City's project on the Puget Right-of-way. An alternative offered by Puget was to select a consultant funded by the City to evaluate the City' s project plans and determine the impacts sufficient to allow negotiations to proceed. The advantage to the City is that the offer provides a fasttrack method of getting Puget to the table to negotiate. There may be some advantage of a third party opinion and affording some additional objectivity. Staff believes that filing condemnation will be needed in any event, unless the assessment demonstrates that the City's preferred altemative becomes significantly more expensive due to the scope of mitigation required. In any event, staff recommends that the Mayor execute the tendered offer by Puget so that the assessment can be expedited. After discussion of the pros and cons the Committee concurred that the Mayor should execute the agreement with a reimbursable authority up to, but not to exceed, the limit of $10,000.00 G. SENATE BILL 6515, TELECOMMUNICATIONS This item was added to the agenda during the meeting in order to inform the Public Works Committee of draft legislation that has potential to impact City control of Right-of-ways and undermine authorities to collect certain tax revenues. Finance Director Diane Supler and City Engineer De~mis Dowdy briefed on concems about Senate Bill 6515. Following item G, the Mayor asked the Finance Director Diane Supler to brief on the proposed legislative changes. PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE MINUTES JANUARY 26, 1998 PAGE 4 OF 4 V. ADJOURNMENT There being no further business to come before the Public Works Committee, the meeting was adjoumed at 7:35p.m. EXECUTIVE SESSION After adjournment, a brief executive session was called by the Mayor to discuss matters of litigation. LS/bd REF. E:\MINUTES\98PW1-2 (H:\ENGINEERNE98\E98-59)