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the four lane roadway and narrowing it for a pedestrian facility. Mr. Culver noted that the County had been very receptive to-date in those discussions. Chair Vanderwall opined that it would be interesting and advantageous to look at a map of Ramsey County projects overlaid with City projects to see areas of work proposed during the same timeframe. At the request of Chair Vanderwall, Mr. Culver confirmed that the sewer lining would be coordinated with PMP areas and that contractor, even though the preference was to line segments the year prior to a PMP project. At the request of Chair Vanderwall, Mr. Culver advised that no water pipe lining projects were proposed for this year; pending results of last year's test project and improved technologies developing in the future to address issues found in getting a consistent thickness with the initial project. Mr. Culver noted that the City was also experiencing a higher than average number of water main breaks this winter as well as the service lines previously discussed; and advised that those areas were given serious investigation and study when areas were found with successive breaks on one line; with work coordinated when possible with road construction projects unless emergency situations required action sooner. 7. Introduction of Environmental Specialist Ryan Johnson Mr. Culver introduced the City's Environmental Specialist Ryan Johnson, who came on board in December of 2013. Mr. Culver reviewed Mr. Johnson's background, most recently with the Ramsey Conservation District (RCD) for the last eight years, and his close work with the City of Roseville and area watershed districts. Mr. Culver opined that this created a good fit, and noted that the City was fortunate to have Mr. Johnson's expertise, and his prior institutional knowledge available, along with his good relationship with the area watershed districts. Mr. Culver noted that Mr. Johnson would be able to provide a good leadership role on storm water issues and projects, along with 25% of his time allotted to working with the City's recycling program. Mr. Johnson expressed his excitement to attend tonight's PWETC meeting, and his pride in being a City of Roseville employee. Mr. Johnson noted that he had worked with former Roseville Engineer Debra Bloom and Engineer Kristine Giga on numerous occasions, as well as Roseville property owners on drainage issues, and improving water quality, bio-filtration and shoreline projects. Mr. Johnson admitted that his biggest challenge was getting up to speed with recycling and implementation of the City's new single-sort recycling efforts in coordination with Eureka Recycling. Mr. Johnson noted that his first month had been focused on the roll-out of that single-sort system, and was pleased with the process and citizen response to-date. Mr. Johnson advised that the majority of the Page 7 of 13