TO: Members of the City Council
FROM: Mayor Angela Birney
DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR CONTACT(S):
Public Works
Dave Juarez
425-556-2733
DEPARTMENT STAFF:
Public Works
Steve Hitch
Engineering Supervisor
TITLE:
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Approve Interlocal Agreement with the City of Kirkland for Willows Road Intertie, Authorize Construction of the Willows Road Water Main Extension and Additional Connection Charge
1. Resolution No. 1540: A Resolution of the City Council of the City of Redmond, Washington, Establishing the Amount of Additional Connection Charges for the Willows Road Water Main Extension Area
OVERVIEW STATEMENT:
recommendation
The 2011 Water System Plan identified the need to complete water system extensions in unincorporated King County within the Redmond Water Service Area near Willows Road and NE 124th Street, to create a reliable and redundant water system to support future development. Kirkland subsequently annexed this area and entered into an agreement regarding the water facilities in 2013, transferring ownership of those facilities to Kirkland.
A development in Redmond adjacent to the City Limits, the Proctor Willows Development, will construct some of the required water system extensions. To provide a reliable and redundant water system that will serve this and other adjacent developments, those improvements are required, along with an intertie with the City of Kirkland. To get approval for that Intertie, Kirkland requires that the water main is extended south along Willows Road to complete the looped system.
The Proctor Willows development is conditioned to complete some of the required improvements including the new Kirkland intertie. It is proposed that Redmond complete the Willows Road Water Main Extension and impose an additional connection charge so that benefiting development properties (including Proctor Willows) reimburse the City for the cost of this new CIP project.
City Council is requested to take two actions:
1. Approve an Interlocal A...
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