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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,April 16,2012 Page 14 bility should be provided for aesthetic considerations for a neighborhood, as well as health, safety and welfare considerations. Ms. Bloom noted current concerns of staff with the City's Pavement Manage- ment Program (PMP) and ability to continue funding mill and overlay projects at the level the City had become used to, with additional challenges found annu- ally in maintaining that status quo. Ms. Bloom advised that it may be necessary in the near future to eat into the capital or consider scaling back on the program of maintaining streets, and impacts long-term for that trust fund. Ms. Bloom noted that the PMP operated on the pavement condition index (PCI) and if the City Council, as ultimate decision-makers, chose to honor additional requests for aesthetic or traffic management items, funding of those items would need to be given serious consideration. Mr. Schwartz advised that this was a policy question for the City Council: whether to add this TMP to a major maintenance infrastructure fund hindering existing maintenance issues; or find other ways to fund it such as through the tax levy or other source, and the level of City support for any of those options. Mayor Roe suggested consideration of a fund for the TMP, similar to that used for the PMP. Ms. Bloom advised that the City of Bloomington had such a fund, identifying projects from one year for the upcoming year, and gauging the level of City support accordingly. Ms. Bloom noted that, at the direction of the City Council, staff could investigate their program further. Mayor Roe and Councilmember McGehee were supportive of further investiga- tion. At the request of Councilmember McGehee in referencing the fairly high unit costs listed in the chart on page 10 of the draft TMP, Ms. Bloom advised that the unit prices were taken from the Institute of Traffic Engineers data, as noted in the key, and were representative of actual costs the City would incur. Ms. Bloom advised that these unit prices were also consistent with code and emer- gency access requirements for emergency vehicles; however, since they were only estimates could vary considerably in magnitude with each case being unique. Councilmember Willmus, referencing funding sources, noted that a number of property owners living on county roadways would not receive a benefit from such a TMP, however, they would see a potential for increased traffic levels in certain areas; and asked that staff further investigate a funding source for those areas.