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City seeks answers after King County’s aquatic grant skips higher-ranked Snoqualmie project

6441201 · October 22, 2025
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Summary

City officials say Snoqualmie ranked seventh for a King County aquatics grant but were passed over while lower-ranked applicants received funding; the city raised conflict-of-interest and rubric-adherence concerns with county leaders and the county legal office is now reviewing the matter.

City Administrator told the committee the city learned in August that it would not receive King County aquatics grant funding and later discovered it had been ranked seventh in the selection process.

“We were ranked number 7 in the grant process,” the City Administrator said. The administrator said county staff reported that when they reached the point in the ranking where Snoqualmie stood, approximately $3 million remained to be allocated, but the committee recommended skipping Snoqualmie and funding lower-ranked applicants.

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