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Lake Forest Park pauses EV charging roll-out after cost review; public works director recommends engineering study
Summary
Public Works Director Rebecca told the council Feb. 25 that preliminary estimates for planned electric vehicle charging stations exceeded previous assumptions; staff recommended pausing installation, funding an engineering study, and reallocating existing capital funds to advance design and grant readiness.
Lake Forest Park’s public works department recommended pausing further work on a planned citywide electric-vehicle charging station installation after a cost review showed substantially higher expected expenses, Public Works Director Rebecca told the Budget & Finance Committee on Feb. 25.
Rebecca said the city had secured grant funding for charging equipment but that a deeper review of site electrical capacity, parking reconfiguration needs and transformer upgrades showed the total project cost could be far higher than the original estimate. "We came in way over where we had originally anticipated," she said, and recommended staff "draw back, regroup, really do an evaluation of this at some point, get some funding for some engineering, and then put together cost again and go for it again."
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