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