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<br />MEMO <br /> <br />DATE February 17, 2000 <br /> <br />TO Honorable Mayor and Council <br /> <br />FROM; Jim March <br /> <br />RE : Snowmobile Strategies for the year 2000 <br /> <br />............................................................................ <br /> <br />This item is being placed on the agenda to further discuss which ideas from the <br />snowmobile public hearing we want to pursue for the next snowmobile season. Mr. <br />Doug Koppy (Rice Creek Trail Association) plans to be present at the meeting. <br /> <br />One of the main items suggested at the public hearing was more enforcement and <br />additional education efforts. City staffhas requested from the DNR the list of registered <br />snowmobiles within the community. Our thoughts are to mail a halfpage notice out to <br />the residences that harbor snowmobiles. This notice could contain the curfew hours, <br />speed limit, appropriate method of riding on the street, etc.. <br /> <br />I believe that ifwe want to have a higher level of enforcement by the police department <br />we would need to place those requests in writing to the Police Commission. This request <br />could include additional hours spent in the community on the department snowmobile, <br />instructions to decrease or eliminate warnings for violations and instead issue citations <br />etc... I have heard from a number of people that they have seen more snowmobiles <br />obeying the rules since the public hearing. I believe the public hearing was an effective <br />way to begin the education process. We have distributed several copies of the <br />snowmobile ordinance to those that have called or stopped in for a copy. <br />