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2:06:46 Item number two on separate business here for you today is to authorize the county manager to sign a professional services contract and any future amendments with Environmental Incentives Incorporated for our bioretention facility community-based public-private partnership development. When last we talked with you about this topic, we were here back in August of 2025 asking Council to approve a grant for about $360,000 from the Department of Ecology to fund this work to develop a possible CBP-3 program. Specifically, we're looking to use this program to help us maintain our large fleet of bioretention facilities within the county. We have about 600 of those style of facilities. They are vegetated treatment and flow control facilities.

2:07:45 You'll see them oftentimes along roadways, 99th, 119th, places like that. And we have a lot of them in our subdivision areas as well. So they are a thing that requires some fairly specialized maintenance, maintenance that it's a little more difficult for us to provide with our internal forces. And so this looked like a good opportunity for us to sort of explore this possibility of a CBP-3, more of a performance-based contracting model. So we've been participating in Clean Water in Ecology's learning network for CBP-3 for a couple of years now, and they've been generous enough to offer us grant funding to support this work. So the last time we were here, you all encouraged us to proceed by accepting that grant. This is the next step to now implement the Phase I program development. So this is to sign a contract with Environmental Incentives to begin developing that CBP-3.

2:08:44 So it's a $270,000 contract. Again, this is a fully funded, 100 percent no match required grant. So this work will be funded under that existing grant, as well as some internal work by staff to support the process. Can I interject for the record real quick? The acronym, CBP-3, stands for Community-Based Public-Private Partnership.