The City of Bellevue and a Bellevue private school have authorized a combined $5 million settlement to the family whose home was destroyed in a landslide in early 2022.
The Bellevue City Council voted to approve the settlement at Monday night’s meeting.
The City of Bellevue will pay $3 million while the school will separately pay the family $2 million.
Dave Bricklin, an attorney for John and Barb Surdi, said Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart had installed the pipelines, which were designed by a previous utility district, which the City of Bellevue now owns.
He said the pipeline was not designed effectively.
“They had loosely put
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