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Board approves consent agenda including contract extensions, easement and benefits renewal

Cowlitz County Board of Commissioners · August 4, 2026
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Summary

The board approved its consent agenda, which included an amendment to an RH2 Engineering professional-services agreement for Shadow Mountain reservoir, a Tapani Inc contract for Burma Road Park Bypass Road (total cost read as $1,234,000), a Humana Medicare Advantage renewal for retirees, a perpetual easement with Raymond and Viola Clark, and vouchers totaling $4,575,417.87.

The presiding commissioner read a series of consent items covering multiple departments and projects before the board moved to approve the consent agenda. Items summarized aloud included amendment no. 7 to a professional-services agreement with RH2 Engineering for the Shadow Mountain reservoir project (an extension and an increase of up to $96,000, with the total authorized amount read as $636,489), contract execution and bond-in-lieu with Tapani Inc for the Burma Road Park Bypass Road project (total cost read by staff as $1,234,000), and a Humana Medicare Advantage Plan renewal for retirees with 11 retirees remaining on the plan.

Other items announced included a perpetual easement with Raymond and Viola Clark for access related to a leachate transmission pipeline, two FERC letters about Merwin Hydroelectric project inspections and abutment/seepage monitoring improvements, and vouchers totaling $4,575,417.87. A motion was made to approve the consent agenda and the board voted to approve it; no separate discussion or roll-call votes were recorded in the transcript for each consent item.