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Past Accomplishments

Streets

  • $2.3 million dollars in Transportation Improvement Board grants for street overlays and   sidewalk extensions.

  • $60,000 in grants for two solar powered crossing signals at the intersection of Coveland and Alexander and for the crosswalk on North Main at the elementary school.

  • Replaced all streetlights with LED with a grant from PSE. Reduced light bills by 30%.

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Utilities

  • Built a $5 million dollar water treatment plant with the Navy at no cost to our water customers. This new plant treats all PFAS compounds to non-detect or below the state requirements. The plant is sized to handle 40 years of growth.

  • Additional $2 million in grants for water, sewer and stormwater projects.

  • Replaced a mile of water line by Fort Casey, some of which dates back to the WWII Fort.

  • Installed a new iron and manganese treatment system in the water treatment plant. 

  • Decommissioned an unused, unsafe WWII water cistern that was a liability to the Town.

  • Conducted a professional Utility Rate Study that analyzed long term revenues and expenses.

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Long Term Planning

  • In September of 2023, we will complete an update to the Town’s Comprehensive Plan. This is an important planning document that looks at the Towns priorities and goals for the next 20 years.

  • Completed an update to the Shoreline Master Plan

  • Completed an update to the Water and Sewer Plans

  • Conducted a Sea Level Rise Study

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Community Green Project

  • Paved and striped the public parking lot and added a seasonal parking area that increased parking by 50 spaces. Added LED lighting so employees felt safer using this parking lot in the winter.

  • Improved the drainage to the Green so it can be used more months of the year. Added a large rain garden to treat the storm water before discharge into Penn Cove.

  • Added four public restrooms, two of them ADA and family friendly. Good adaptive re-use of a historic building, the Holbrook Boat Building Barn.

  • Installed 4 Electric Vehicle charging stations.

  • Partners in this project were Island County with a $435,000 economic development grant and the Coupeville Farmers Market who purchase aeration equipment for the town and the human/pet drinking water faucet outside of the restrooms.

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Emergency Preparedness

  • Continue to sponsor the Neighborhood Emergency Teams (NET), a group of highly trained, and highly motivated volunteers who will help the town in the event of an emergency. They conduct annual disaster drills along with regular neighborhood checks and safety education.

  • Assembled a mobile stock of emergency supplies to support NET, including radios and supplies to outfit Comfort, Volunteer Registration and Pet Centers if needed.

  • Completed an Interlocal agreement with Whidbey Health to staff an emergency shelter at the hospital if the weather is extremely hot and exceeds safe temperatures.

  • Outfitted all the sewer lift stations, the utility plants, the Rec Hall, Town Hall and Town Shop with permanent generators so all facilities will remain functional in an extended power outage. 

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Front Street Traffic Revision

  • The Coupeville Historic Waterfront Association expressed desire to make Front Street more pedestrian friendly. The Town wanted to make the area safer for pedestrians as well as drivers. Because our Town is historic with narrow sidewalks and streets, this took planning.

  • We changed Front Street from North Main to Alexander and Alexander from Front to Coveland to one way. This opened the north side of Front Street to better visibility for drivers and more open space for pedestrians.

  • We removed most parallel parking and replaced it with angled parking. With this change we gained an additional handicapped parking space, a 5 minute drop-off/pick-up spot for pedestrians, motorcycle spaces and 8 additional car spaces.

  • Delivery trucks have historically double parked in the middle of Front Street forcing traffic to play a dangerous game of ‘chicken’ to get around them. We have added one large delivery spot at the intersection of Grace and Front. Even if the delivery trucks continue to double park, there is now only one direction of traffic that must maneuver around them.

  • We chose the west-bound direction for Front and the south-bound direction on Alexander for two reasons; it does not require all cars exiting the Rec Hall parking lot to circle back thru town on Front Street and it eliminates the stop sign for traffic traveling south on North Main Street. Drivers tended to stop at the stop sign and continue through assuming the traffic on Main and Coveland also had to stop. It resulted in some near misses.

  • Residents and businesses have been asking for a four way stop at the busy intersection of Coveland and Alexander. This is a pedestrian heavy area and the new four-way stop will slow everyone down before entering the intersection.

  • We have applied for a grant to add a raised ADA complaint crosswalk across Front Street at the Grace Street parklet and a fresh asphalt overlay in the historic downtown district 

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