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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,April 13,2015 Page 18 Mayor Roe noted the need to include an appropriate disclaimer as well. Councilmember McGehee suggested the City would provide advice for residents wanting this service from a vendor the ways to vet a vendor, in addition to that disclaimer. Councilmember McGehee advised that she was also in favor of add- . ing an additional year onto the program if the equipment would hold up in order to avoid springing this on residents immediately if they're still using this service. Councilmember McGehee suggested including information about this being the last year the program would be offered as part of the annual post card notice and alerting them to vendor information available on the City website for their refer- ence to allow residents to consider their options now to get that in place for 2016. In order to avoid incurring capital costs, Mayor Roe opined that it only made sense to discontinue the program given the few participants and to avoid continu- ing to subsidize the program with the storm water fund, since it was not all paid through user fees. Mayor Roe noted the need to have further discussion about op- erating the program in 2015, as the unusual costs due to weather and seasonal changes in 2014 may not happen again in 2015. Councilmember Laliberte noted that the City's communication team and their ef- forts have much improved, and the program has not been marketed as well in the past as much as other things. Councilmember Laliberte opined that if notices an- nounced that this was the last year for the service, the subsidy may be less than normal. Mayor Roe clarified that the additional cost in 2014 was weather-related. Councilmember Laliberte state that her prediction was that there would be more users in 2015. Noting that there were other services and programs provided by the City that were also subsidized, Councilmember McGehee opined that one more year for this program even as subsidized should not create any problems, and costs should not be any worse than 2014. Councilmember McGehee encouraged the communica- tions team to be brought on board. Mayor Roe sought any objection to directing staff that the program would be dis- continued after one more year, and that it be well communicated to residents. Hearing no objection, Mayor Roe confirmed that as the direction of the Council. Councilmember McGehee thanked Mr. Schwartz for his many years of service to the community. c. Discuss Pavement Maintenance Strategies