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<br />Chair Cihacek stated the Commission’s priorities seem to be what Mr. Gosiewski <br />has listed, it hits those targets within the timeline provided which are ambitious <br />targets and he thought the City was starting to make progress towards those targets <br />with the current policy structure. The trick for them is to figure out the next steps. <br /> <br />Chair Cihacek thought a question that needed to be answered was how the City will <br />move forward on greenhouse gas emissions, Citywide electricity, onsite <br />renewables, City operations with renewable energy and reducing climate related <br />risks. One thing he thought the Commission discussed before was to get a handle <br />on urban forestry and that the forest program does not live within Public Works or <br />the Environment Commission, it lives in the Parks and Recreation Commission and <br />so there is a good opportunity to create a synergy, policy, action and movement to <br />develop urban forestry programs but it is particularly important given the City’s <br />loss of forest resources due to both natural disasters, storms but also disease. He <br />stated the vast majority of Roseville tree coverage was composed of one or two <br />species and not significant diversity which give the City a non-resilient forest <br />canopy which in turn creates problems for greenhouse gas and other sorts of <br />elements. He stated he would like to really get a better sense of urban forestry and <br />management given the City’s current status and concerns. <br /> <br />Mr. Muessig thought the Commission’s action step strategies around urban forestry <br />was quite detailed in Chapter nine. <br /> <br />Chair Cihacek thought chloride was a significant concern for all communities and <br />he thought Roseville had significant problems with chlorine in water and resources <br />so to find a solution to reduce that in a short term and to treat it in a long term would <br />be a good one. <br /> <br />Mr. Gosiewski stated one other area that is really exciting is with Roseville having <br />certain stores shutting down and redevelopment going on there or redevelopment <br />over at HarMar so having higher density redevelopment has gigantic carbon <br />benefits and looking at how to do all of the different pedestrian and bike <br />connections. There is a lot of interesting ways to trying to figure out how to get <br />around the City. <br /> <br />Member Joyce stated the City has great north/south transit, but east/west transit is <br />very difficult to do. He wondered how the City can have a bi-directional transit <br />system to get everyone where they want to go in the City. <br /> <br />Chair Cihacek stated there are many large corporations in the City of Roseville <br />without easy access to get to them via transit. He thought transit was a concern for <br />the Commission and has been a concern for some time, particularly east/west <br />movement. <br /> <br />Mr. Gosiewski stated with the Met Council having a new council and Metro Transit <br />trying to get over the bad publicity of having unshoveled bus stops and all of that <br />Page 6 of 7 <br /> <br />