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impervious surfaces are created the more the sewer system will be taxed. She <br />asked if those were factors the Commission could start to look at and address. <br />Mr. Freihammer stated staff does try to project some of that and do show an <br />increase in the capital side. He thought staff should show more information with <br />the Commission on how staff comes up with capital costs. Staff does show costs <br />of repairs and storm water clean up costs and do show increases going into the <br />future and that is being projected. <br />Chair Cihacek thought the concern comes in knowing that the money was not <br />being invested early in the life of the infrastructure so now the City is playing <br />catch up in some of these cases. That means the City needs more capital faster <br />which is why the numbers look relatively small over the years. He thought there <br />were a lot of things the City would like to do which would cost millions of dollars <br />and those numbers are not being represented either. He thought the numbers <br />looked conservative in relation to what needs to be done. <br />Mr. Freihammer thought the Commission would like to see a slightly higher rate <br />increase to provide for a higher future balance. <br />Chair Cihacek thought the commission could make that recommendation in the <br />future. <br />6. Complete Streets Policy <br />Civil Engineer Luke Sandstrom provided a brief review and update on projects <br />and maintenance activities listed in the staff report dated October 23, 2018. <br />Chair Cihacek stated some of these items are fairly specific so he asked what the <br />reason was for the policy generally as opposed to when the City does projects to <br />include the information in the specifications. <br />Mr. Freihammer indicated the City does not have a policy and staff would like to <br />do this for the City Green Steps but a lot what is in the policy the City already <br />does but it is not formally stated. The policy is trying to incorporate everything in <br />a policy. He indicated the Commission did previously go through a couple of <br />drafts in 2012 but with the turn over in members and staff and the Council he <br />thought this fell through the cracks and never ended up with the City Council for <br />review and approval. <br />Mr. Sandstrom stated he went to training on this a couple of weeks ago and a <br />representative from MNDot talked about how the State has this policy and put it <br />in place since 2012 and the way MNDot tracks it is whenever a project comes <br />through there is a check list for evaluation of items that need to be included or <br />reviewed for the project to move forward. He thought a policy would allow the <br />City to show the public that everything is being evaluated with each project and <br />there is some sort of work to show that it has all been evaluated with reasons why <br />Page 11 of 15 <br />