Kenmore council was scheduled to weigh $2.5M transportation engineering contract with Parametrix

What the records say

The Jan. 26, 2026 City Council consent agenda included a proposed action to authorize the City Manager to execute a $2,500,000 contract with Parametrix for transportation engineering on-call services ¹. Per the agenda bill, the agreement runs two years, expiring Dec. 31, 2027, with an option to extend up to two more years at the City's discretion ¹. Staff advertised for statements of qualifications, interviewed four firms, and selected Parametrix's multi-discipline team ¹. Under the on-call structure, no retainer is paid; individual task orders define each project's scope and budget, and no money is spent until a task order is agreed to and signed by the City ¹.

• The proposed contract with Parametrix was for $2,500,000 in transportation engineering on-call services.
• The item would authorize the City Manager, not the full council vote on each task, to execute the contract, and it appeared on the consent agenda.
• The agreement's term is two years, expiring Dec. 31, 2027, with the option to extend up to two more years at the City's discretion.
• No retainer is paid; work proceeds through individually signed task orders, so no money is authorized to be spent until a task order is agreed to and signed by the City.

Why it matters

The contract funds the engineering behind visible street work: design services for the NE 155th St and 84th Ave NE ped/bike projects (estimated $1.4M), survey services for in-house design work (estimated $200K), traffic engineering services (estimated $100K), other non-capital engineering as needed (estimated $200K), and potential additional capital projects if grant funding arrives in the 2026-2027 biennium (estimated $600K) ¹.

What changed / what's next

• The Jan. 26, 2026 agenda added a proposed consent-agenda action to authorize the City Manager to execute a $2,500,000 transportation engineering on-call contract with Parametrix ¹.
• The supplied records do not establish the meeting's outcome; whether the authorization was approved is not shown in the packet ¹.
• The agenda bill lists estimated costs by service category, but the packet does not include the executed contract's final terms or a funding source beyond the budget notes in the agenda bill (CIP and General Fund Engineering, with 2027-2028 funding to be requested for some categories) ¹.
• The available records do not establish the meeting's outcome.