Snohomish County Council - File #: 2025-3284

• File #: 2025-3284
• Version: 1
• Type: Motion
• Status: Approved
• File created: 10/6/2025
• In control: General Legislative Session
• On agenda: 10/15/2025
• Final action: 10/15/2025
• Title: Motion 25-476, authorizing the County Executive to sign Change Order CO-23 to Bid PW-24-027SB for the construction of the New Start Center of Everett with Marpac Construction

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
10/15/2025	1	General Legislative Session	Approved	Pass
10/14/2025	1	Administrative Session	Moved to the GLS Regular Agenda

Executive/Council Action Form (ECAF)

ITEM TITLE:

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Motion 25-476, authorizing the County Executive to sign Change Order CO-23 to Bid PW-24-027SB for the construction of the New Start Center of Everett with Marpac Construction

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DEPARTMENT:  Facilities and Fleet Management

ORIGINATOR:  Lance Meinhold

EXECUTIVE RECOMMENDATION:  Approved by Ken Klein 10/8/25

PURPOSE: To obtain Executive approval of Change Order 23 to Marpac Construction.

BACKGROUND: The County and Marpac Construction entered into an agreement on December 18^th, 2024, for the construction phase of the New Start Center of Everett. Marpac Construction and the plumbing subcontractor, Streamline, air pressure tested the western third of the cold-water supply lines at the back building for one week. During the course of the week, they discovered the system is a combination of copper, galvanized steel, and plastic piping. The three plumbers repaired approximately 45 leaks. Marpac aided in uncovering areas and listening for leaks. Hearing air leaks in the system proved difficult due to the noise from Interstate 5 and the low pressure they were able to maintain. The system would need to hold 120 psi of air pressure in order to consider filling with water at 80 psi, normal operating pressure. By the end of the week, this portion of the system would not hold 10 psi of air pressure. This level of pressure could be achieved by friction along the length of the pipe. Basically, spending over 120 labor hours of work on 1/6 of the existing system resulted in no noticeable improvement. At this time, it is assumed the other 5/6 of the system will have similar issues. There is no way to know how many leaks will be found or how long repairs will take in make the system operable. Even if all of the current leaks are found and repaired, there is no way to guarantee a new leak will not develop within the first few weeks after placing the system back into operation. Newly developed leaks would be assumed to be inside asbestos bearing walls, requiring hazardous material abatement in addition to plumbing repairs. This change order is to provide a new system using PEX piping, the current economical, code compliant material for domestic water supplies. The change order provides the County with a warrantied system.  The asbestos containing materials around potential future water leaks would also have been mitigated. The change order provides a set timeline and cost for the completion of this scope of the work. The change order also includes impact costs to other scopes for items such as material storage for items which are due to arrive but cannot be installed until after the re-piping is complete. The construction plan is to complete the re-piping of the system in sections to allow other trades to restart working without requiring the complete system to be rebuilt first. The City of Everett Building Inspectors favor this approach. Marpac and the City are working with the County to allow occupancy of the front building prior to the completion of the back building. Marpac has calculated the schedule based on an approved Change Order by October 10^th. Every day after October 10^th and their receipt of an executed Change Order will result in an additional day being added to the schedule.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

EXPEND: FUND, AGY, ORG, ACTY, OBJ, AU	CURRENT YR	2ND YR	1ST 6 YRS
002 5123116201	$683,833.00
TOTAL	$683,833.00

REVENUE: FUND, AGY, ORG, REV, SOURCE	CURRENT YR	2ND YR	1ST 6 YRS
TOTAL

DEPARTMENT FISCAL IMPACT NOTES:  Click or tap here to enter text.

CONTRACT INFORMATION:

ORIGINAL		CONTRACT #	PW 24-027SB	AMOUNT	$4,040,000.00
AMENDMENT	1	CONTRACT #	PW 24-027SB	AMOUNT	$12,354.58
AMENDMENT	2	CONTRACT #	PW 24-027SB	AMOUNT	$71,578.14
AMENDMENT	3	CONTRACT #	PW 24-027SB	AMOUNT	$7,040.92
AMENDMENT	4	CONTRACT #	PW 24-027SB	AMOUNT	$16,843.95
AMENDMENT	5	CONTRACT #	PW 24-027SB	AMOUNT	$200,329.05
AMENDMENT	6	CONTRACT #	PW 24-027SB	AMOUNT	$143,596.21
AMENDMENT	7	CONTRACT #	PW 24-027SB	AMOUNT	$106,047.50
AMENDMENT	8	CONTRACT #	PW 24-027SB	AMOUNT	$53,786.28
AMENDMENT	9	CONTRACT #	PW 24-027SB	AMOUNT	$123,892.39
AMENDMENT	10	CONTRACT #	PW 24-027SB	AMOUNT	$116,751.01
AMENDMENT	11	CONTRACT #	PW 24-027SB	AMOUNT	$126,919.65
AMENDMENT	12	CONTRACT #	PW 24-027SB	AMOUNT	$63,703.30
AMENDMENT	13	CONTRACT #	PW 24-027SB	AMOUNT	$87,029.01
AMENDMENT	14	CONTRACT #	PW 24-027SB	AMOUNT	$90,718.61
AMENDMENT	15	CONTRACT #	PW 24-027SB	AMOUNT	$86,707.91
AMENDMENT	16	CONTRACT #	PW 24-027SB	AMOUNT	$130,019.49
AMENDMENT	17	CONTRACT #	PW 24-027SB	AMOUNT	$55,849.00
AMENDMENT	18	CONTRACT #	PW 24-027SB	AMOUNT	$114,305.40
AMENDMENT	19	CONTRACT #	PW 24-027SB	AMOUNT	$63,031.00
AMENDMENT	20	CONTRACT #	PW 24-027SB	AMOUNT	$123,529.00
AMENDMENT	21	CONTRACT #	PW 24-027SB	AMOUNT	$72,777.00
AMENDMENT	22	CONTRACT #	PW 24-027SB	AMOUNT	$11,595.00
AMENDMENT	23	CONTRACT #	PW 24-027SB	AMOUNT	$683,833.00
				TOTAL	$6,602,237.40

Contract Period

ORIGINAL	START	12/18/2024	END	Final Project Acceptance Date
AMENDMENT	START	Upon Execution	END	Same - Unchanged

OTHER DEPARTMENTAL REVIEW/COMMENTS:  Reviewed/approved by:  (Risk Management (Sheila Barker 10/8/25) and Finance (Nathan Kennedy 10/8/25)