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127 Ayes:5 <br />128 Nays:0 <br />129 Motion carried. <br />130 <br />131 4. Communication Items <br />132 City Engineer/Assistant Public Works Director Freihammer provided a brief <br />133 review and update on projects and maintenance activities listed in the staff report <br />134 dated February 26, 2019. <br />135 <br />136 Mr. Culver wanted to commend the Public Works staff for all their hard work in <br />137 February with the snow falls and cold weather. <br />138 <br />139 Mr. Culver updated the Commission on City Council meeting items. First item the <br />140 City Council discussed was environmental sustainability. The second item was <br />141 stormwater infrastructure and water quality. The third item was pedestrian safety. <br />142 He noted there is a priority out there for the pedestrian or non -motorized network <br />143 and what the City can do to enhance that. He noted for him, he thought the first <br />144 step is creating a criteria for where the City marks crosswalks, where enhanced <br />145 crosswalks are placed and coming up with some specific thresholds. <br />146 <br />147 Member Wozniak asked as part of the pedestrian crossing discussion has there been <br />148 anything discussed about addressing actually traffic calming strategies, not just <br />149 visual markings. <br />150 <br />151 Mr. Culver stated the City does have a pretty good traffic management program, <br />152 which is a procedure by which a neighborhood can petition for traffic calming <br />153 improvements and things like that. It is up to staff to determine if there is a problem <br />154 and then to come up with strategies on how to address that specific problem and <br />155 what happens if something is done to fix the issue, would a problem somewhere <br />156 else arise because of the fix and what are some of the disadvantages to it. <br />157 <br />158 Mr. Culver reviewed a few traffic calming projects the City has worked on in the <br />159 past year. <br />160 <br />161 Member Wozniak asked if there were any other effects of all of the effort staff has <br />162 put into as far as the snow. He wondered how the City is doing with salt and is this <br />163 going to impact any Public Works operations going forward. <br />164 <br />165 Mr. Culver stated the City is way ahead on overtime and fuel usage is way over <br />166 budget for this period and the City has been building up a surplus of salt over the <br />167 past couple of years. He noted the City is still within budget on the salt purchase. <br />168 He stated at the end of March staff will generate a report to show where the City is <br />169 at from a budget perspective based on overtime and fuel costs in particular and <br />170 whatever else has been purchased. <br />171 <br />172 5. Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Policy <br />Page 4 of 11 <br />