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Council awards $302,121 design contract for Eighth Avenue culvert to address fish passage
Summary
Poulsbo approved a consultant contract with Skillings Incorporated to design replacement of a 24-inch culvert on South Fork Dogfish Creek; much of the project will be grant-funded and the design is scheduled for completion next June.
Poulsbo, Wash. — The Poulsbo City Council voted June 11 to approve a consultant contract with Skillings Incorporated for design of the Eighth Avenue culvert on South Fork Dogfish Creek. The council authorized the mayor to sign a contract for $302,121 to fund design work, geotechnical studies and permitting.
The project: City staff said the existing 24-inch culvert restricts fish passage on a creek that supports coho and chum salmon and cutthroat trout. Public Works staff said the stormwater capital improvement program had listed the culvert replacement for several years and that the city received funding from the Brian Abbott Fish Barrier Removal Board to offset design and construction costs. The total current project budget for replacement activity was reported as $338,000.
Design and timing: The consultant scope includes alternative analysis, geotechnical survey, preliminary bridge/crossing design and permitting. Staff told council design is scheduled to be completed in June of next year; construction timing will consider fish‑passage windows and coordination with a planned Eighth Avenue realignment study so the two efforts do not preclude one another.
Council exchange: Councilmembers asked about prior experience with the recommended consultant, whether the grant covered all the design cost and how the culvert design will be coordinated with separate efforts such as an Eighth Avenue realignment study. City Engineer Josh Raines said coordination will be part of both consultants' scopes and that staff will require communication between the two teams to avoid design conflicts.
Vote: The council approved the contract 7-0. Staff will return with project milestones as design progresses.
What happens next: Staff will finalize the contract and begin the consultant—0work. Geotechnical work and survey deliveries are in the contract scope; permitting will follow working with state and county resource agencies. Work scheduling will take fish-passage construction windows into account, the city said.
