Note: The agenda and transcript list the meeting date as September 9, 2026 at 5:00 PM; the date above is used per instruction.
The Parks & Built Environment Committee of the Everett City Council convened to receive a briefing from Snohomish County PUD on the proposed Everett to Delta 115 kV transmission line, primarily along the Broadway corridor. Committee members also discussed upcoming agenda items for future meetings.
Welcome everybody to the Parks and Built Environment Council Committee meeting. Today is Wednesday, just uh September 9th. It is 5 p.m. and we are here in Council Chambers. Uh, thanks everybody for joining. Uh, tonight we have a fantastic presentation with guests from the Sohomish County PUD to provide a briefing on their Everett to Delta transmission line. And I believe we have some slides to share as well. So if the team uh wouldn't mind getting that cued up and introducing yourself, we're excited to hear more about the project. Hello, everybody. My name is Aziz Hawk. I'm an engineer with Snowhomish County PUD and uh project engineer for the Everett to Delta transmission project. We just have a couple of slides here to share. Um let's get started. The agenda for the presentation is uh just a couple of slides. We're going to start with the background of the project. Uh we'll go over the schedule, just high-level schedule, the route selection, some of the considerations for design, beautification, and then we'll finish with some questions. This um transmission line is 115 KB. Um it the need for it was identified uh prior to 2023. A transmission study was conducted across our bulk electric system, and the need for this line was identified as a result of uh forecasted growth in across the county um within the city of Everett. And um in addition to that load growth that was forecasted, there's also a new requirements that were put in place by NURC, uh North American Electric Reliability Corporation. And that is essentially a regional compliance agency that we have to follow and abide by that study revealed uh, you know, with all of the local growth in the area and the electrification. We would uh also need to construct two new substations in the downtown city corridor area, and this line will directly support those substations. Um currently, those substations and properties for those sites are trying to be identified. Um but the first part of that is we need to get the line in the air to support those stations. And again, this line is 115 KB. So that's the it's not your typical distribution, you know, 45, 50 foot poles. These are your 80 to 100 foot tall structures. Yeah, of course. Dave, turn your mic on. Sorry. So, as I understand this is going between a substation and a switching station, this route will go. Those then new substations would be between these two. Correct. That's right. So somewhere along the Broadway corridor, there'd be two new substations or within, yes. Around that general area. The size of a substation or the size of a switching station or something in between. Um it's going to be closer to a substation. Yeah. It would be a substation, so it's not going to be merely as big as our delta switching station on the north side of town. Thanks. You're welcome. Uh, just some brief project information and and high-level schedule. So we, you know, when the project was initiated back in 2023, the first uh one of the first things we had to do was figure out how we were going to get to AMB. And AMB is our Everett substation near the Everett Transit Center. And the uh terminus is our Delta switching station at the north end of Everett near the interchange. So we hired a consultant 2023 to start a route study and select multiple route options or alternatives. Um we rolled into 2024. Once those route options were identified, we started our community outreach uh utility coordination and very preliminary design. 2025 route was selected.