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Rockaway Beach awarded $900000 in federal funds

The failing hillside at Rockaway Beach will get a band-aid worth $1.5 million after the Kitsap Regional Coordinating Council awarded $900,000 in federal funds for a design and solution to stop the erosion debilitating the bluff and threatening the road from above and below.

After nearly two and half hours of debate Wednesday, the council decided by a 5-2 vote to formally propose a Rockaway solution asking for $900,000 of the approximate $1.8 million in total federal funds that the KRCC divvied out during a meeting Thursday afternoon.

The Rockaway Beach Road stabilization has sat at the top of a funding emergency list since 2009. KRCC originally expected it would have $750,000 to allocate for projects throughout the county, but the council found out in June that $1.8 million would be available.

What started as an arduous council discussion ended in unanimous support to ask KRCC to fund a $1.5 million project using one of the three designs presented by engineering firm BergerABAM in May. Though several councilors expressed doubt during Wednesday's council meeting that the city would have a credible proposal, KRCC awarded the city's full $900,000 request.

Councilors Kim Brackett and Debbi Lester, with support of Public Works Director Lance Newkirk, advocated for and were awarded $900K in funding from Kitsap Regional Coordinating Council Transpol Board. The KRCC recommendation now goes to Puget Sound Regional Council for final approval.

The city plans to use $200,000 from a federal grant already obligated for Rockaway design, $400,000 from a Recreation and Conservation Office grant that was awarded to the city in the last several weeks and the $900,000 in federal money that KRCC awarded.

The city started imposing emergency measures on the site after a 1997 landslide to try and preserve a 200-foot long portion of the two-lane coastal road that lies south of Bill Point and Creosote Way. Several studies have analyzed the deteriorating road since then, while the cliff side has continued to erode some 15 to 20 feet in places along the bluff.

In order to be competitive for the monies, Interim City Manager Brenda Bauer said the council needed to express unanimous support for a design approach and corresponding funding strategy. At the start of the meeting the council had decided on neither.

“In the end, the deadline actually helped council focus on what needed to be done,” said Brackett. “On a seven-member council, where we all had our own ideas on the best way to solve the problem, we had to work through it and find compromises that were amendable to everyone.

Rockaway Beach | Eat to Blog

What do you do when you have one weekday off? Laundry? Watch 8hrs of Netflix Instant? Cook? Just be lazy? Actually I did all of that plus a quick trip out to Rockaway Beach. Yep the beach. I’m not a big fan of beaches but do enjoy walking along boardwalks. Another thing I do enjoy is eating along the boardwalk. This summer, I’m sure most of you know this by now, few of our favorite Brooklyn based food people took over the concession stands at the Rockaway Beach boardwalk. Yep that was the only reason why I went to the beach, to eat.

I have seen their Hardbody burger (double patty double cheese) and it’s huge! I knew that I was going to eat more so I decided to just get a plain burger with a fried egg and an order of fries. The burger was great, nice buns and the egg cooked perfectly. I softly pressed the bun down and accidentally broke the yolk (great for dipping the fries in). Though they could’ve given me more lettuce.

After the girl at the Rockaway Taco concession stand on 96th St told me that they don’t serve tacos, she pointed me towards their original shop just a block away. In the over 90degree weather, even just a block seemed so far away. While standing in line at the shop, I felt overly dressed since I was probably the only one there that wasn’t going to swim or chill on the beach. I have heard great things about Rockaway Taco’s fish taco so I ordered one with guac on top.

Even though the tortilla was kind of hard, the taco was pretty tasty. The addition of the guac was great and the fish was nicely fried and flavorful.

I will definitely head back out before the end of the summer and actually eat a Hardbody.

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