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Wenatchee Council approves amendments and construction contract for wastewater projects
Summary
The council approved an amendment to Jacobs Engineering's contract to add construction management, awarded the administration building construction contract to T.W. Clark, and approved additional design work for digester and boiler upgrades, with funding coming from the sewer utility fund and state public-works assistance.
Wenatchee City Council on March 12 approved a series of actions to move forward on upgrades at the city's wastewater treatment plant, including a contract amendment with Jacobs Engineering and a construction award to T.W. Clark.
Mike Hodgson, wastewater treatment plant supervisor, told the council staff recommended amending Jacobs Engineering's contract to add construction management and update the capital project budget for City Project 2403. Hodgson said the original construction management budget "had $220,000 in it and back in 2024 and since then, like everything else, it's balloon to 577,000," and staff requested roughly $377,000 in additional budget authority. Hodgson said that change would be 100% funded from the sewer utility fund (Fund 405).
Council then voted to award the construction contract for the administration building to the lowest responsive bidder, T.W. Clark, and authorize the mayor to sign the contract documents. Hodgson said eight bidders submitted; construction was described in staff remarks as a roughly $4.363 million component of a total $5.5 million construction project, with construction scheduled to start later this year and finish in spring 2027.
Council also approved Amendment No. 2 to the digester and boiler upgrades design contract with Jacobs Engineering. Hodgson said the amendment "is pretty substantial — it's just less than $800,000." He described a separate public-works board award: staff said they received about $1,000,000 through the Public Works Board, with "15% of that is a grant. So 850,000 is a loan. And I believe at 0.6% interest." Council members discussed keeping portions of the existing building in service during construction and how the project sequence would limit outages.
The motions carried by voice vote. Council agenda minutes indicate the construction management increase and digester/boiler amendment are intended to maintain operability during upgrades and to reduce long-term operations and maintenance costs by modernizing key systems.
The council action authorizes the mayor to sign the amendment and the contractor agreement; staff said the next steps are final contract execution and pre-construction coordination with the awarded bidder.
