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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,April 16,2012 Page 15 At the request of Mayor Roe, Councilmember Willmus clarified that he was in- terested in a 75/25% funding option versus a city-wide levy. Mayor Roe questioned how to determine which properties were assessed: those "affected"versus those "benefitting." Ms. Bloom noted that this was the rationale in providing the two distinctions, and read the actual definition of"affected" on page 15 of the draft policy; while noting that sometimes "affected"and"benefitted"may be the same. Discussion ensued, using the previous examples of Wheeler and Dale Streets, for impacts to larger areas as measures were implemented, and overall costs to a broader area; temporary options versus permanent mitigation; need to under- stand the issues before providing a response by using the criteria in an estab- lished policy consistently to evaluate concerns and issues; potential liability im- pacts on temporary versus permanent improvements; some temporary mitiga- tion (e.g. speed tables) note lasting through a winter season; and whether im- plementation of such a TMP and related procedures (page 4) will increase staff needs or if current staffing levels can facilitate such a TMP. Ms. Bloom advised that staff anticipated only being able to manage 1-2 such re- quests annually, given the other workload items they handled. Mayor Roe noted the need to emphasize the ranking process and perhaps look to other Joint Powers Agreements for additional staff resources. Ms. Bloom advised that staff time and expertise was built into the TMP in the criteria and procedure, with some studies possible in-house with staff's exper- tise, and others requiring outside consultants if beyond staffs capability or time constraints. Ms. Bloom noted the need to clearly understand that those costs would be applied to a project, some of which could be significant. Mayor Roe noted if costs were incurred before doing a temporary measure, those costs may need to be floated by the City for a considerable amount of time; and advised that this needed to be part of the consideration as well. Councilmember McGehee opined that, similar to the sewer policy just dis- cussed, there was a tremendous demand and of great importance to residents in the City for such a policy as the TMP, and further opined that this was a good start to this policy, with a number of hurdles identified before getting to the need for any study, also making it unreasonable to accomplish more than 1-2 annually. Ms. Bloom noted that, in staffs discussions with the PWET Commission, one strategy or tool was sidewalks, something staff received a number of requests