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Renton Council adopts housing allocation, signs off on leases, contracts and first reading for fiber franchise
Summary
The Renton City Council adopted a $227,503 allocation for South King Housing and Homelessness Partners, approved multiple finance and utilities committee concurrence items — including a 10-year lease with Logan Market LLC and agreements for airport and infrastructure work — and placed a Hyper Fiber franchise ordinance on second reading. The council recessed to an executive session on labor negotiations.
The Renton City Council on a routine March meeting approved a city resolution authorizing a $227,503 contribution to South King Housing and Homelessness Partners’ SCIP Housing Capital Fund and took up a slate of committee-recommended contracts and leasing agreements that city leaders said support affordable housing, infrastructure and local business incubation.
The council unanimously moved to adopt the SCIP allocation resolution after a motion by Councilmember Prince and a second by Councilmember Van. That resolution directs the city’s administering agency to execute documents necessary to enter into funding agreements for affordable-housing projects recommended by the SCIP Executive Board.
In committee reports and subsequent council action, members concurred with a series of finance recommendations: approval of accounts payable vouchers totaling $11,438,765.79 and payroll disbursements of $2,273,207.48 for the February pay period; acceptance of Kidder Matthews vouchers totaling $36,593.36; authorization of Amendment No. 1 to Contract 23249 with the Federal Aviation Administration for additional engineering services not-to-exceed $216,653 for the Taxiway Alpha Rehabilitation Project; and authorization to purchase two servers in support of an airport security and fence upgrade project in a not-to-exceed amount of $232,184.70.
The council approved a $165,738.98 agreement with New…
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