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City to use limited stormwater funds to bridge short grant gap for education plan
Summary
City staff told the council an education and outreach plan for stormwater permit compliance is mostly grant-funded but may need up to $10,000 from stormwater funds to finish work during a three-month funding gap; staff also described results from a community survey guiding the program.
Shannon (Surface Water/Stormwater staff) told the Lake Stevens City Council the city's stormwater education-and-outreach contract with the Snohomish Conservation District is primarily funded by a noncompetitive state grant tied to the city’s Phase 2 stormwater permit, but a three-month lapse in the grant cycle will create a short funding gap.
Shannon said the gap affects work scheduled between the end of the current grant and the new funding round, which begins July 1. To avoid missing Ecology’s internal deadline for having an outreach plan in place by July 1, she proposed using existing stormwater program funds ("probably $10,000 or less," she said) to finish the plan now and be reimbursed…
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