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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,March 12,2018 Page 17 Councilmember McGehee disagreed with Councilmember Willmus' comments. People who have a problem with the City's Public Works plans have shown up early and during the process and the City Council has every opportunity to work with them. The staff has shown longstanding and consistent desire to have a good working relationship with the community. She understands the concern about roofs at midnight,but the City government is serving the residents, notifying them of the work that has to be done. This will be done at least a week in advance, so there is time to notify the Council. This is one area where the Council spends more time than is necessary on holding these hearings, and the current ordinance also makes more paperwork for staff and the Council. Councilmember Willmus responded that repair of sewer and water line is one is- sue. A different issue would be if the City needs to replace a street. Councilmember Laliberte stated she errs on the side that the Council needs to en- sure the community knows what is happening. She believes that is a service that is owed to the community. Neither version is specific enough, in her view. She does not have a problem with the current process. Councilmember Etten agreed it is easy to change policy. He originally did not notice Attachment E, which includes the night-related work policy and specifies the reasons for the work and how people are noticed. Attachment E also gives specific circumstances for the most likely types of work. Staffs point is that they can get the projects done a lot easier and improve the public benefit more quickly. Staff is not going to not do it, so the question is whether it can be expedited. If specifics should be baked into the ordinance,that is a discussion he is willing to have. Mayor Roe asked whether the noise impact will be over an extended period of time, or just during one night. Mr. Freihammer noted that it is usually one night, possibly two nights. He cannot think of any type of project that would occur an extended period of time at night. Mayor Roe noted that might be something to put into the language or the policy. Councilmember Willmus suggested that instead of saying "any" construction or maintenance activity, perhaps it can instead say "construction or maintenance ac- tivity directly related to or referencing sanitary sewer or water main line. " Mayor Roe noted the proposed staff change says the City Council must adopt the policy as well. He has some difficulty giving the City a different path than any- one else may be able to have. Perhaps exemptions can include entities other than the City if the same conditions apply, if they are doing something in the public right-of-way, related to the water and sewer. The Met Council would be one ex-