2014/05/21 Council Agenda Packet

EVERETT CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM COVER SHEET I I, PROJECT TITLE: Port Riverside Business Park Briefing COUNCIL BILL# General Transfer Agreement Proposed Action Originating Department Public Works for utilities and roads Consent Contact Person Jim Miller Action Phone Number 425-257-8880 First Reading FOR AGENDA OF 5/21/14 Second Reading Third Reading Public Hearing Initialed by: Budget Advisory Department Head ( CAA b Council President Location Preceding Action Attachments Dept(s)Approval Riverside Business Park on General Transfer Agreement Legal Snohomish River bt. I-5 &Hwy 529 (without exhibits) Amount Budgeted -0- Expenditure Required -0- Account Number(s): Budget Remaining -0- Additional Required • -0- DETAILED SUMMARY STATEMENT: The Riverside Business Park is owned by the Port of Everett,which intends to develop the site as a business park. The site was formerly owned by Weyerhaeuser and contains utility systems (water, sewer,and stormwater). For the purposes of development of the site, it makes sense for the City utility to control and maintain the site utilities, as the City does for the rest of the City. The City has already in 2011 taken over the water service at the site. This action item authorizes the Mayor to sign the General Transfer Agreement with the Port,which sets up a defined process for the City to take over the sewer and stormwater infrastructure,plus the roads at the site. In general,the agreement requires that Port complete certain work/upgrades for each utility system,with the City taking over the system when the work is completed. Because of the Weyerhaeuser legacy,the utilities are somewhat complex, and so the exhibits to the agreement are bulky with many survey attachments, almost to pipe-by-pipe detail. (A binder with the exhibits is available at the Council Office for review.) In return for the City's costs in this utility and road takeover,the Port is granting a free-of-charge easement for the Tulalip Water Pipeline. These costs were estimated to have a present value of$300,000 which equals the value of the easement which is over a mile long. As part of the City's 2005 Settlement Agreement with the Tulalip Tribes establishing the pipeline project,the City agreed that it would procure the necessary easements for pipeline, a significant segment of which will go through the Riverside Business Park. This easement from the Port is the last piece in that puzzle. RECOMMENDATION(Exact action requested of Council): Authorize Mayor to sign the Port Riverside Business Park General Transfer Agreement and related documents in substantially the form provided.