Snohomish County Council unanimously adopts four ordinances, including flood grants and Bothell road design amendment

Snohomish County Council members unanimously approved four ordinances during a public hearing on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025, advancing flood mitigation grants, a road‑design interlocal amendment with the City of Bothell, corrections to county code, and a clerical fix to the county’s 2024 comprehensive plan ordinances.

The measures passed on 5‑0 roll call votes with no public testimony taken for any item. Chair Nehring and Council members Dunn, Low, Mead and Peterson voted in favor of each ordinance.

The most consequential actions included ordinance 25‑004, which awards Snohomish County Flood Damage Reduction Grant Program funds to three diking districts and authorizes the county executive to execute interlocal agreements with grant recipients to govern expenditure of those funds; and ordinance 25‑002, which approves amendment No. 2 to an interlocal agreement with the City of Bothell for design work on road improvements to 220 Eighth Street Southeast from Fifth Avenue Southeast to Ninth Avenue Southeast and requests an additional authorization of $1,019,313 to complete the work. According to staff, the Bothell project would widen the…