The June 16, 2026 ARPA update details how the City is using its $3,087,237 in ARPA-related funds, highlighting several infrastructure and planning initiatives. In Account F (City Infrastructure), Snohomish County led a countywide broadband analysis, and Snohomish retained CBG Consultants for $73,138 to assist with a broadband study and recommendations; these funds were fully expended by the end of 2025. The City also allocated $202,262 for the First Street Master Plan, including $109,000 for geotechnical surveying and emergency excavation/repair at First & Avenue C, and remaining funds for a contract with First Forty Feet to develop the master plan; these ARPA funds are now fully used. An additional $259,600 was assigned to the Rainier Street Utility project, which has also exhausted its ARPA allocation. Although the ARPA dollars for these specific tasks are spent, the work products—broadband recommendations, a First Street Master Plan, and utility upgrades—set the stage for larger follow-on capital projects and funding requests. Vendors in broadband engineering, streetscape and waterfront design, and utility construction can position around the next phases: implementing broadband recommendations, translating the First Street Master Plan into design and construction, and extending utility work beyond the ARPA scope. The City must fully expend all remaining ARPA funds by December 31, 2026, so adjacent projects may look to other grants and capital sources, creating further opportunities for planning and implementation services.

ARPA-funded planning (broadband study, First Street Master Plan) creates shovel-ready concepts that ...