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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,April 16,2012 Page 13 Ms. Davitt noted that, in discussions with LMCIT adjusters, even if a claim was denied, residents felt some satisfaction that the City had helped them out to some degree with such a policy in place. Ms. Davitt noted that such a policy could help residents get the back-ups cleaned up as soon as possible. Mayor Roe noted the ongoing educational efforts needed in encouraging resi- dents to contact the City first if they experienced a back-up before calling a pri- vate plumber, to ensure that the problem is identified immediately before more time elapsed and further damage or delay occurred. Recess Mayor Roe recessed the meeting at approximately 8:29 p.m. and reconvened at approximately 8:34 p.m. c. Discuss Neighborhood Traffic Management Policy City Engineer Debra Bloom and Public Works Director Duane Schwartz re- viewed the draft Neighborhood Traffic Management Program (TMP) coming from the cooperative efforts and ongoing discussions with staff and the Public Works, Environment, and Transportation (PWET) Commission. Ms. Bloom reviewed several recent examples of how such a TMP could have worked in Roseville (Wheeler and Dale Streets), and typical funding through assessments under Chapter 429 of MN State Statute. Ms. Bloom reviewed differences in "benefited" and "affected" areas; various tools available; impacts to other areas streets if a problem was fixed,but created problems elsewhere, and how the TMP was set up to measure and gauge im- pacts and mitigate problem areas. Ms. Bloom reviewed priority considerations and resulting scoring in the TMP as part of the process (pages 5 and 7); and in- put from the Police Department and how speeding problems were defined, iden- tified and enforced, as well as funding and other considerations in addressing those issues. Discussion among Councilmembers and staff included ranking before and after temporary traffic control mitigation measures; investment benefits; strategies and tools for Minnesota State Aid (MSA) and collectors, as well as potentially truncating those roadways; and staff's intent in the TMP that there can be no negative impact on other roadways, with the TMP addressing existing traffic problems and only certain measures considered on higher-volume roadways. Further discussion included consistency of this TMP with other communities in having 51% of a neighborhood support mitigation efforts; templates from the Cities of Blaine and Edina TMP's used as a basis for this draft Roseville TMP; the petition process itself and neighborhood understanding and education on de- fined neighborhood costs in the Chapter 429 process; and whether some flexi-