Executive/Council Action Form (ECAF)
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Motion 23-490, approving and authorizing the execution of the agreement between Snohomish County and Ziply Fiber Northwest, LLC
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DEPARTMENT: Information Technology
ORIGINATOR: Dee White
EXECUTIVE RECOMMENDATION: Ken Klein 11/1/23
PURPOSE: To execute an Agreement with Ziply Fiber Northwest, LLC for the Snohomish County and Ziply State Route 530 Broadband Project.
BACKGROUND: The County has received a grant award from the Washington State Department of Commerce, Broadband Office ("WSBO") to expand broadband services into rural areas of Snohomish County. The County submitted a joint application for the award with Ziply Fiber NW, LLC a broadband system provider to construct a Fiber to the Premise (FttP) network along or near the State Route 530 Corridor from the City of Arlington to the Town of Darrington. The communities to be connected include Bryant, Trafton, Cicero, Oso, Rowan, Hazel, Swede Heaven, Whitehorse, and Darrington. The proposed project will enable gigabit fiber connectivity to approximately 4,510 addresses. The approved project spans multiple years, includes several complex, industry-specific agreements and is funded through more than $16M in federal recovery grant funding and over $9M in matching funds provided by Ziply Fiber NW. The County has negotiated multiple endpoints and up to 12 strands of fiber in segments throughout the network. Certain endpoints and segments are adjacent to but outside of the scope of the grant project area and carry an IRU fee to the County of $125,100. The IT Department is requesting Council approval the contract with Ziply Fiber Northwest, LLC for $25,848,569. This is a multi-year project with funding expiration set for 2025, and is related to ECAF 2023-823. Expedited handling is requested to execute the contract and begin the project immediately.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
EXPEND: FUND, AGY, ORG, ACTY, OBJ, AU
2023-2025
315-51144936401 - Capital
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