Woodcrest utility project design contract amendment was scheduled for a March 4 council vote

What the records say

In materials published ahead of the March 4, 2025 meeting, Bothell's agenda included Agenda Bill 25-031, which asked the council to approve a resolution authorizing the City Manager to sign Amendment No. 1 to a Professional Services Agreement with Stantec Consultants ¹. The amendment would add $244,042, bringing the contract total to $1,215,300.15 for consultant design services on the Woodcrest Neighborhood Utility Project ¹. The item was listed on the consent agenda, meaning it would pass with a single motion and vote unless a councilmember pulled it for separate discussion ¹. The city's own 2025-26 legislative agenda describes the Woodcrest neighborhood as 157 manufactured and mobile homes providing affordable housing to senior and fixed-income residents, with substandard, failure-prone utility systems including undersized water mains, sewer infiltration, and poorly functioning surface water facilities ¹. The available records do not establish the meeting's outcome.

• Agenda Bill 25-031 asked the council to approve a resolution authorizing the City Manager to sign Amendment No. 1 to the Professional Services Agreement with Stantec Consultants ¹.
• The amendment would add $244,042, bringing the contract total to $1,215,300.15 for consultant design services for the Woodcrest Neighborhood Utility Project ¹.
• The item was on the consent agenda, which is passed with a single motion and vote unless the council pulls it for separate discussion ¹.
• The city's legislative agenda describes the Woodcrest neighborhood as 157 manufactured and mobile homes housing senior and fixed-income residents, with undersized water mains, sewer infiltration and inflow, and poorly functioning surface water facilities ¹.

Why it matters

The Woodcrest project, estimated by the city at $7.4 million, is intended to update the neighborhood's water, sewer, and stormwater infrastructure to improve water service and fire flow and reduce utility repairs ¹. This amendment would increase what the city is spending on design before any construction begins, and the design work is a prerequisite step toward the utility upgrades residents in that neighborhood would eventually see ¹.

What changed / what's next

• The proposed Amendment No. 1 would increase the Stantec design contract by $244,042 to a total of $1,215,300.15 ¹.
• The available records do not establish the meeting's outcome, so it is unknown whether the council approved the amendment on March 4, 2025.