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(CIP) overview; election of officers (April agenda); and digging deeper into stormwater management concerns as per tonight's discussion. Chair Cihacek expressed interest in staff providing the PWETC with copies of current policies for residential and commercial stormwater management, including city code, watershed district(s) requirements, and other regulatory arena considerations and mandates. Chair Cihacek stated that this included current gaps, areas that were more or less restrictive, and other initial thoughts to start that conversation (April or May agenda). At the request of Member Seigler, staff was asked to also provide any old or new regulations under the new U. S. President that may be revised or anything in city code that was relevant and/or needing review to determine if still valid. To save meeting time, Chair Cihacek suggested individual commissioners do that research and review outside of the meeting and then bring any comments and/or suggestions to the PWETC when that discussion was scheduled on afuture agenda, especially if they found anything outdated or needing revision. Mr. Culver noted that many of those code provisions fell under the Planning Commission umbrella. As part of that, Mr. Culver referenced the city's subdivision ordinance currently under review for revisions, including that section of code and others that may be involved. At this time, Mr. Culver noted that city code included detailed engineering requirements for new developments and subdivisions; with the current revision stripping that language from ordinance and putting it into a more manageable engineering manual to allow more flexibility in making changes and updates for modern practices outside of an ordinance amendment and formal public hearing. Mr. Culver noted that this made city code cleaner and less complex. Mr. Culver noted an upcoming discussion (April agenda) for the PWETC would be the transportation plan update as part of the larger comprehensive plan update; with proposals due later this week for a consultant to guide the work, anticipated to be under contract by late March or April with the PWETC then asked to engage in that process. At the request of Chair Cihacek, Mr. Culver clarified that the consultant would identify which PWETC meetings would be targeted for public input as part of that process; with staff working in conjunction with them to identify which PWETC meetings made the most sense in the overall process. Mr. Culver noted that this update would coincide with public engagement efforts and other public meetings for the comprehensive plan update. Mr. Culver noted that there would also be electronic surveys for this process, hoping for abetter success rate than with that of the CSWMP process. At that point, Mr. Culver advised that a draft would be provided for the PWETC and public to respond to at a formal public hearing, anticipated for late summer or early fall. Further discussion included the status of solar energy efforts; the city's space needs study anticipated by mid-June (June PWETC agenda to review architectural Page 10 of 11