City Council approves 6 contracts in December
January 5, 2009
By J.B. Wogan
The final City Council meeting of 2008 (Dec. 16) was robust with last-minute business items, including more than $1.02 million in contracts.
The council approved $65,000 for landscape services for Eastlake and Skyline high schools. Specifically, Northwest Landscape Services will maintain the schools’ athletic fields in 2009.
The landscape company will provide detailed sports turf maintenance, looking for broken glass, gum, field seam issues, and wear spots that need additional rubber. The same level of detail will be applied to the outlying bleachers and the perimeters of the fields.
The council also approved $48,009.96 for custodial work at the city’s park facilities in 2009. Advantage Building Services will clean and maintain facilities at Beaver Lake Park, Beaver Lake Preserve, Beaver Lake Lodge, East Sammamish Park, all high school community sports fields, Ebright Creek Park, Pine Lake Park, and the Sammamish Commons Public Restroom.
Another approved contract focused on turf care and landscape work at the city’s parks in 2009: $86,847.39 will go to Total Landscape Corporation for maintaining the city’s high school community sports fields and six parks.
Unlike the Northwest Landscape Services, Total Landscape will focus on general landscape tasks at the sports fields, such as weeding, shrub and tree pruning, as well as leaf and litter removal.
The council also approved $522,000, split between two one-year contracts, for the law firm Kenyon & Disend to provide legal services to the city for 2009-2010.
Bruce Disend will continue to work as the city’s attorney, reviewing legal documents for the city, representing the city in law suits, advising City councilmembers on legal matters, and attending City Council meetings on an as-needed basis, unless excused by City Manager Ben Yazici. Disend also attends weekly meetings with the department directors at the city.
The council also approved a contract with King County to continue recruiting and training volunteers who monitor Beaver and Pine lakes.
The county’s Water and Resource Land Division will receive $42,525 in 2009-2010.
The contract included the county’s work for 2008, which amounted to another $20,200.
The council also approved a change in the city’s insurance provider, switching from The Washington Cities Insurance Authority to The Cities Insurance Association of Washington.
The city’s Administrative Services Director, Mike Sauerwein, estimated that the city could save $30,000-$60,000 in making the change for 2009. The city has budgeted spending $242,000 on its insurance for 2009, slightly less than its cost in 2008 with its old insurance provider ($243,360).
The council also approved an agreement with the city’s two water and sewer district providers for introducing utilities along East Lake Sammamish Parkway: Northeast Sammamish Sewer and Water District and Sammamish Plateau Water and Sewer District. As the city prepares to start the first phase of construction along East Lake Sammamish Parkway, the water and sewer districts will introduce water and sewer lines now, in coordination with the city’s work, rather than undoing and replacing the city’s work later on.
The project’s first phase will involve adding a left-turn lane or median, bike lanes and a sidewalk to the parkway from Inglewood Hill Road to Northeast 18th Place.
The utility improvements will come at no cost to the city. Instead, the water and sewer districts take on the upfront cost, with the understanding that developers will pay back the water and sewer districts as they build out along the parkway.
Reporter J.B. Wogan can be reached at 392-6434, ext. 247, or jbwogan@isspress.com.
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