Natural Systems Design, Inc. 3/6/2024

Assumptions: NSD will utilize existing regulations, primarily driven by the WDFW Fish Passage Manual, to make determinations about site passability. When existing guidance is insufficient to make determinations of passability, NSD will provide our best professional recommendations, and rationality for those recommendations, to the City. If no sites have data that warrant an update to their passability, the City’s Fish Passage Sites database may remain unchanged and NSD will proceed with Task 2. Deliverables: Updated Fish Passage Sites database (in ArcGIS Online hosted feature layer format), if applicable due by 4/30/24. Budget: $4,114 Task 2: Finalize prioritization workbook NSD will finalize the 2023 Phase 1 prioritization workbook. Additional City owned barriers falling within City limits and with known passability status will be incorporated into the workbook. This will entail manual revision of the habitat quality modeling data against the City’s streamline network for updates to the streamline configuration of the modeling data. NSD will work with the City of Everett to verify that the best streamline configuration is being used based on the best available data at the time. Prioritization values will be refined, if necessary, to follow the King County prioritization methodology as developed in Phase I. NSD will prepare one draft and one final memorandum documenting the changes to the prioritization workbook. Assumptions: Final prioritization workbook will include (at a minimum) barriers that are known to be owned by the City of Everett, have a known barrier status, and are located within City limits (excluding structures related to the water transmission line east of City limits). Crossings beneath City owned infrastructure, yet outside of city limits, may be included in the inventory if such information is already documented in the City’s Fish Passage Sites database. Private landowner crossings that occur within city limits will not be included in the prioritization workbook, but may be included in the City’s Fish Passage Sites inventory if such information is already documented in the inventory. Landowner and stakeholder outreach will not be conducted by NSD. No fieldwork will be conducted in Task 2. Deliverables: Updated prioritization workbook that relies on iterations developed by NSD in 2023 and incorporates final revisions. Draft will be submitted to the City for review by 9/5/24. The City will respond with any comments by 9/19/24. The final draft will be submitted to the City by 9/26/24.