HomeMy WebLinkAboutRes 0645 - CDBG Block Grant for Green River Basin Surface Water Management Program
RESOLUTION NO. 645
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF TUKWILA, WASHINGTON,
AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO SIGN A JOINT H &CD BLOCK
GRANT APPLICATION WITH THE CITIES OF AUBURN, KENT,
RENTON, AND KING COUNTY FOR THE PURPOSE OF
CARRYING OUT COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT AND PUBLIC USE
ENHANCEMENT DESIGN PROJECTS AS PART OF THE GREEN
RIVER BASIN SURFACE WATER MANAGEMENT PROGRAM.
WHEREAS, Tukwila and the cities of Auburn, Kent, Renton,
and King County have prepared and adopted the Green River Basin Program as
the Comprehensive Surface Water Management Plan for the Green River Basin;
and,
WHEREAS, An objective of the Green River Basin Program is to
insure that federal plans and projects are compatible and consistent with
the Basin Program and with the objectives of local comprehensive plans; and,
WHEREAS, Expanded opportunies for community involvement and
programs to provide public use enhancement features in major flood control
projects are consistent with local objectives and result in increased public
awareness and support for the Basin Program; and,
WHEREAS, Stronger community orientation and local advocacy
program for the Basin Program and Flood Control projects will maximize the
chances for success in providing local financial support for the non federal
share of project costs; and,
WHEREAS, Projects supported conceptually by the local community,
especially where local financing is available when needed, will result in early
implementation of much needed flood and drainage protection in the Green River
Basin.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF TUKWILA, WASHINGTON, AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The Mayor is hereby authorized to enter into a
joint H &CD Block Grant Application with the cities of Auburn, Kent, Renton, and
King County for the purpose of carrying out community involvement and public
use enhancement design project in support of the Green River Basin Program.
Section 2. The City Council recognizes that this will not place
any direct financial costs to the City and that any future costs to the City must
first be approved by the Tukwila City Council.
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF TUKWILA, WASHINGTON,
at a regular meeting thereof this day of 5 e-, 1978.
COUNCIL ACTION
MEE.ANl DATE I AGENDA ACTION
TYPE ITEM
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RECREATION OFFICE of COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT 1
10 August 1978
M E M O R A N D U M
TO: Mayor Bauch
FROM: Kjell Stoknes
SUBJECT: Joint Block Grant Application on Valley Drainage Program
The attached formal motion would authorize you as the Mayor to make a joint
application with King County, Auburn, Kent and Renton for the purpose of
furthering the agreements established between our jurisdictions for the pur-
pose of storm water control and related purposes in the Green River Valley.
The proposed grant as developed by the King County staff is for $100,000.00
and the primary purpose of the grant is to begin the community involvement
process and consider multi -use enhancement in flood control design.
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6230 Southcenter Boulevard Tukwila, Washington 98188 111 (206) 242 -2177
PLANNING
PARKS CITY of TUKWILA
BUILDING
RECREATION OFFICE of COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
14 August 1978
M E M O R A N D U M
TO: -M Bauch
FROM: Kjell Stoknes
SUBJECT: Joint Block Grant for Valley Flooding
Last week I submitted to you a proposed motion authorizing the City Council to
grant you the authority to enter into a joint block grant with the other valley
cities and King County for purposes of community involvement and design projects
as part of the Green River Basin Surface Water Management Program.
The attached is support information to that formal motion. I recommend we sup-
port this grant application out of the joint needs monies part of the H &CD block
grants.
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Attachment
6230 Southcenter Boulevard Tukwila, Washington 98188 (206) 242 -2177
Introduced by:
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MOTION NO.
A MOTION authorizing the King County Executive to prepare
and enter into a joint H &CD block grant application with
the cities of Auburn, Kent, Renton and Tukwila for the
purpose of carrying out community involvement and public
use enhancement design projects as part of the Green River
basin surface water management program.
WHEREAS, King County and the cities of Auburn, Kent, Renton and Tukwila
have prepared and adopted the Green River Basin Program as the comprehensive
surface water management plan for the Green River basin; and
WHEREAS, an objective of the Green River Basin Program is to insure that
federal plans and projects are compatible and consistent with the basin program
and with the objectives of local comprehensive plans; and
WHEREAS, expanded opportunities for community involvement and programs
to provide public use enhancement features in major flood control projects
are consistent with local objectives and will result in increased public
awareness and support for the basin program; and
WHEREAS, stronger community orientation and local advocacy program for
the basin program and flood control projects therein will be translatable
into local financial support for the non federal share of project costs;. and
WHEREAS, projects supported conceptually and financially by the local
community will result in early implementation of much needed flood and
drainage protection in the Green River basin.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
The King County Executive is hereby authorized to prepare and enter into a
joint H &CD block grant application with the cities of Auburn, Kent, Renton and
Tukwila for the purpose of carrying out community involvement and Public use
enhancement design projects in support of the Green River Basin Program.
PASSED this day of 1978.
KING COUNTY COUNCIL
KING COUNTY, WASHINGTON
Chairman
ATTEST:
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Clerk of the Council c IFS
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GREEN RIVER BASIN PROGRAM
(Community Involvement and Multi -Use Enhancement in
Flood Control Design)
10. FULL STATEMENT OF THE PROJECT
I. GENERAL
A. Problem:
Surface water management problems extend throughout the
entire 480 square miles of the Green River Basin and along the,
90 -mile length of the river from the Cascades to Elliott Bay.
Historically, the lower valley has been the focus not only of
most of the flooding problems but of the resulting controversy
over proposed solutions to them. This portion of the basin
contains the geographic floodplain of the Green River with an
area of some 8,400 acres. Average annual flood damage
prevention benefits within this floodplain area are estimated by
the Corps of Engineers and Soil Conservation Service to exceed
2.5 million dollars. It is estimated that over 100,000 people live
in the contributing watershed of the lower Green River basin
with a substantial population of low and moderate income
residents living on the Valley floor which is subject to periodic
inundation.
Within this area are located the five sponsoring jurisdictions of
the SCS Watershed Projects and Corps Levee Improvement
Project: King County, Auburn, Kent, Renton and Tukwila.
Collectively, the four valley cities have jurisdiction over 90
percent of the lower valley floodplain. Within the entire basin
there are 9 municipal governments and a variety of special
purpose districts with surface water authority. King County
has jurisdiction over approximately 85 percent of the basin
lands, most of which are upland areas, In addition, the cities
of Enumclaw and Black Diamond have authority over upper
basin lands within their corporate limits.
The scope of surface water issues and problems in the basin is
extensive and affects all of these jurisdictions and residents
therein. The flooding of interior areas that occurs almost
annually in the lower Green River Valley results from waters
which runoff of and through the boundaries of numerous
governments and special districts. The resulting fragmented
responsibility and inability to pursue and implement effective
surface water management plans and projects in the basin have
added to the overall problem rather than alleviated it. In
addition, local governments who are sponsors of major federal
flood control projects in the basin have, in the past, relied
heavily on analyses, recommendations and decisions made by
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federal agencies. Local decisions have often been made without
a working knowledge of federal regulations and guidelines
under which those projects were planned or of possible
alternative solutions offered by them. The problem has been
heightened by the fact that federal, state and local agencies
planning surface water and flood control programs in the basin
have not coordinated their efforts as fully as possible.
In a similar sense, citizens have not always had a workable
mechanism or opportunity to provide public input and review of
the planning and design of major structural flood control
works. Local public reviews have resultantly been critical of
the planning process, the proposed structural design of major
works of improvement and the impact these facilities would have
on the natural environment and other community values. To a.
large extent this public intervention has caused rather than
alleviated delays in the completion of permanent flood protection
for the lower Green River Valley.
B. Purpose:
The Green River Basin Program represents a three part local
action program through which King County and the cities 'of
Auburn, Kent, Renton, and Tukwila will investigate and
resolve the remaining flooding and surface drainage problems in
the Green River basin. The program is based on the
assumptions that:
1. Solutions to water resource problems in the Green River
basin should be developed with an emphasis and reliance
on an integrated planning program.
2. Surface water management planning in the Green River
basin should be oriented to basin -wide considerations and
relationships.
3. Local governments should have a strong role in decisions
that affect the planning and design of surface water
measures within their jurisdiction.
4. Improved coordination of federal agency programs and
projects that affect local flood control and drainage
management decisions should be initiated and effectuated
by actions of local sponsor governments.
Major parts of the four year basin program include:
1. Early Action Measures, intended to provide an immediate
response to surface water and flood control regulatory
needs in the lower Green ,River Valley.
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2. Valley Interim Policy and Regulatory Plan, resulting in
an areawide set of policies and regulatory controls to
mitigate flooding problems in the lower valley until federal
flood control projects are implemented.
3. Basin Wide Surface Water Management Program, intended
to coordinate and integrate federal, state and local
programs /projects affecting water resource management in
the Green River basin.
Another significant feature of the program includes the
establishment of the Green River Basin Executive Committee
(BEC) of elected officials to provide policy guidance and
direction as well as a management framework to deal with
problems, issues and coordinated actions of local sponsors in
response to individual projects or in overall basin program
development. Additionally, a Technical Committee made up of
planning and public works representatives will prepare
technical analyses and recommendations for review by the BEC.
This framework for decision making is expected to result in a
stronger voice for local governments in decisions that affect the
planning and design of surface water measures within their
jurisdiction.
Public knowledge and support for the Green River Basin
Program and the various major planning elements that make up
the program is considered a key and important consideration to
insure that local governments are truly in charge of and
responsible for the surface water management destiny in the
Green River basin. The project described herein is proposed
to provide the mechanism and opportunity to involve all the
public throughout the planning program and to purposely
develop program tasks which insure that public and multi -use
enhancement benefits are products of surface water system
designs.
II. PROJECT INTENT
A. Goals:
The overall goal of the Green River Basin Program is to bring
about effective and efficient water resource utilization and
conservation throughout the basin. Additional goals have also
been established for each phase and element of the basin
program as described in detail in the adopted comprehensive
work program.
Specific goals for this project, which is being carried out as a
major element of the basin program are as follows:
1. To provide a continuous and structured process to insure
an adequate exchange of information between all segments
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of society and local /federal agencies responsible for
planning and designing surface water management plans
and projects in the Green River basin.
2. To provide environmental quality and public use
enhancement features in the planning, design and
implementation of drainage and flood control systems in the
Green River basin.
3. To insure that surface water management planning and
project implementation is consistent with and furthers the
objectives of state, regional and local comprehensive
plans.
B. Objectives:
To accomplish the goals stated above, the project will be
developed in two mutually supportive component parts: 1
community involvement, and 2) multiple-use design
enhancement.
Community involvement will involve the fulfillment of the citizen
participation program identified as an important element of the
Green River Basin Program. A Program Coordinator and
logistical support consisting of administrative, clerical,
secretarial and communication services will manage and carry
out an active public involvement program on all aspects of the
basin program. The public involvement program, will provide a
continuous and structured process to insure adequate exchange
of information and opinion between the public and local /federal
planning agencies. Resources will be utilized to recruit citizen
committee representatives, plan and mobilize attendance at
public meetings and workshops and closely coordinate the
planning program with "target groups" that are vital to
politically viable plan results. A variety of public involvement
and information dissemination techniques (i.e., newletters,
surveys, brochures, displays, etc.) will be used to insure
citizen involvement from the widest possible range of basin
demographics.
The Coordinator will also be responsible to establish a public
relations image with property owners of land needed for
channel or levee rights -of -way, wetlands proposed for
acquisition, and buildings and homes that must be relocated.
This assistance is expected to facilitate enhanced options and
negotiations at such times as these properties are acquired by
right -of -way representatives of the King County Real Property
Division. Additionally, the establishment of a strong and
workable liaison between federal, state and local agencies will
be an important benefit of the Program Coordinator activities.
This liaison link will provide communications between all
programs and projects impacting surface water management in
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the basin and will provide the focus for resolution of issues at
the Green River Technical and Basin Executive Committee
levels. An example of the need for this liaison and coordination
will be required in the reformulation of the West Side Green
River Watershed Project which will involve the Corps of
Engineers, Soil Conservation Service, the cities of Auburn and
Kent and King County. These jurisdictions with the assistance
of the general public will be reviewing such complex issues as
river flows, agriculture, wetland and urban development land
use issues and upland surface water management in the Mill
Creek sub -basin as a part of developing drainage and flood
control projects for this area of the lower valley. Opportunities
for "pooling" federal and local public involvement programs and
funding to offer expanding public participation programs will
also be important investigations and probable results of
activities by the Coordinator in this element of the overall basin
program.
The second component of the proposed project will deal with
specific planning and design opportunities to develop
envirnmental quality and public use enjoyment considerations in
the implementation of structural flood control improvements.
These activities, which heretofore have never been considered
in the initial phases of project planning, will be designed to
insure that the ultimate flood control system is envir
acceptable and is consistent with and furthers the objectives of
state, regional and local comprehensive plans.
Design studies, site plans and comprehensive landscape and
development plans for each of the several components of the
flood control system will be prepared. The majority of the work
will be contracted out to consulting firms with planning,
landscape and site design expertise. Funds will also be used as
local "seed money" which can be combined or matched with
federal dollars appropriated for similar purposes. These joint
funded design studies will permit expanded study scopes and a
greater proportion of the financial burden to be assumed by
other than local agencies. In addition to environmental
enhancement, these investigations are expected to result in the
identification of additional recreation, open space and other
social benefits which will be important in economic evaluations
and justifications required of all federal water projects.
Typical examples of the areas of need that currently exist for
such design investigations include:
1. Channel Design for East Side Watershed Project This
investigation would involve a design and landscape study
of the drainage channel rights -of -way for the East Side
Green River Watershed Project. Local funding would
enhance joint financing opportunities with the Soil
Conservation Service. Visual, wildlife and landscape
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enhancement alternatives would be investigated utilizing
tree and grass plantings, sculpturing and slope rounding
of channels. Recreation development potential would be
analyzed in larger areas proposed as retention ponds as
well as along linear public rights -of -way needed for the
drainage channels themselves.
2. Joint Design Corridors with Interurban Trail This
design study would be sub contracted with planning and
design consultants to analyze the opportunities and
recommendations for joint design corridors in locations
where drainage channel and interurban trail corridors
abut one another. Combined rights- of-way design
segments would be developed with the objective of
maximizing the utilization /conservation of those public
properties. Economic efficiencies in designs, land
acquisitions and linkages to other recreation facilities in
the area would be.probable products of this investigation.
3. Design Alternatives and Enhancement of River Levees
This project would be the follow -on phase to the Green
River and Environs Project as part of the basin program.
Consultants working with representatives from the Corps
of Engineers would investigate design and use potential
alternatives for reconstructed levees along Green River
and setback levees in locations they are desired. Levee
design investigations would include analysis of
structural /non-structural alternatives as well as specific
site design plans for river nodes and greenbelt areas.
4. Streamside Enhancement This consultant project would
be developed to coincide with and take advantage of State
t Fisheries and Game Department enhancement programs in
small watersheds in the basin (i.e., Springbrook Creek,
Kent and Auburn Mill Creeks). Streamside shadings,
planting of riparian vegetation and flow augmentation
analyses would be carried out. Analyses and
recommendations on human use developments appropriate
within the streamway corridor would be conducted as well
as organized stream identification and enhancement
activities by schools and other citizen groups. Cost
shared programs with the State are expected.
C. Tasks and Cost of Each:
The community involvement component of the project will
require personnel start -up activities in the form of job
description preparations, job announcements, screening,
interviewing and placement for the coordinator positions and
well as supplementary logistical and clerical support.
Additionally, some on the job training from King County
Planning Division personnel would be included prior to the
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program element being capable of assuming work responsibilities
with minimal supervision. (2 months).
A community involvement work program would be prepared and
circulated to the Green River Technical Committee and Basin
Executive. Committee for review and approval. Formal liaison
channels with designated representatives of participating
County departments, local sponsors, federal agencies, and
private groups and individuals would also be established at this
time. (2 months).
Citizen Committee recruitment, scheduling of public workshops,
meetings and hearings, preparation and compilation of surveys
and questionaires, corrdination of citizen interests with
Technical and Basin Committees and overall program managment
will be carried out over the balance of the project year. (8
months).
The public use design enhancement component of the project
will involve the preparation specific design study scopes,
coordination of RFP's, screening, and selection of consultants.
Further negotiations on work scopes, schedules, products and
costs will be ongoing. Preparation and administrative
coordination of contracts will complete pre- contract activities.
Contract monitoring both technically and budgetarily will be
required in addition to coordinating work .products with federal
agencies, citizen groups, Technical and Basin Executive
committees. (on -going over 12 months).
D. Resources:
Th King County Planning Division Resource Section will
directly coordinate project planning and task accomplishments.
Work programs, schedules and products will be coordinated,
reviewed and approved through the Green River Technical and
Basin Executive Committees.
Temporary field office space with support personnel, supplies
and logistical assistance may be required dependent upon space
available in Planning Division quarters.
III. PROJECT EVALUATION
The project evaluation will to a large extent depend on the overall
success of the comprehensive Green River Basin Program.
Evaluative criteria established for the basin program are as varied as
there are major elements of the work program, and include specific
timetables for the enaction of early action measures. Criteria have
been developed and are identified in the work program for the Green
River Basin Program. Other criteria, such as the success of the
BEC to reorient the pXIanning approach to flooding and drainage
management in the basin are implied, and are equally important.
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The evaluation of this project will be based on how successfully and
expeditiously the goals of providing full scale public involvement
together with a design enhancement program to insure multi -use
features in all facets of surface water management are implemented.
Increased public awareness and support for the Green River Basin
Program will be measured through citizen surveys, questionaires and
participation at public forums.
Specific evaluation and performance criteria will be developed as part
of consultant contracts and used thoughout the various phases of
contract completion. It is, expected that 1979 monies and products
will be viewed as local "self help" programs which will positively
influence federal agencies (i.e., Corps and SCS) to financially
participate in planning design studies, implementation programs and
on- going, coordinated public involvement programs.
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Green River Basin Program Map