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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, October 22, 2018 Page 12 Councilmember Laliberte agreed and thought communication is going to be the key and will include multiple kinds of communication, not in place of what is be- ing done now because of the wide range of demographics and technology use in the community. She thought there should be a communication working group to decide what that is going to be with the GARE lens applied to that. She had some concerns with the snow emergency, only in that it immediately conjures up tag and tow which is an additional burden on the residents who might not be getting the message. Councilmember McGehee thought that tag and tow was a concern but felt Chief Mathwig has the places identified where there is the most offense and the most likely where tag and tow would occur, so notification in those areas should be in- creased. Mr. Culver thought it was worth it do a case study on this engagement effort and some of the lessons learned. He stated this took a lot of work, was not free, and not something the City should endeavor to do on everything. But it is something that should be done more often and the City needed to figure out where to apply it. Councilmember Willmus echoed Councilmember Etten's concerns, if the City were going to go to a text notification system or something along those lines, is the City actually reaching out and engaging those that need to. He had some res- ervations about that. He did not know as a Council where the City is at and if the City should proceed forward with the status quo. Mayor Roe thought it seemed like there were two pieces to this. One is an educa- tion part, how can the City make everyone that either lives or otherwise is in the community be more aware of the rules and regulations related to parking during snow events, what to anticipate. The second piece would be the trigger for the en- forcement, which one of the issues with the two-inch current code that people can dispute whether it is two inches. He thought that needed to be changed. He was not sure if the City should call it a snow emergency,but thought some sort of pos- itive communication from the City in a lot of instances is needed and an addition- al piece to this. He noted there is still a communication and education issue to proactively and positively tell residents to get their cars off the street. Mayor Roe would like to look, over the course of the next year, at ways to communicate to the community. He agreed with everything that has been said. He thought the upfront, education piece of this is a huge part of it as well. He suggested in the chronic areas, to have some signage installed indicating what the rule is with mul- tiple language. Mr. Culver indicated there is signage at Sienna Green.