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28 Nays:0 <br />29 Motion carried. <br />30 <br />31 4. Communication Items <br />32 City Engineer Jesse Freihammer provided a brief review and update on projects <br />33 and maintenance activities listed in the staff report dated March 23, 2021. He <br />34 introduced Assistant City Engineer Stephanie Smith who is replacing City Engineer <br />35 Luke Sandstrom. <br />36 <br />37 Assistant City Engineer Smith introduced herself and provided the Commission <br />38 with her background history. <br />39 <br />40 Public Works Director Culver updated the Commission on the Climate Change and <br />41 Forests in Minnesota presentation and noted the Commission can view the <br />42 presentation at the link shown and indicated the link will be added to the online <br />43 packet. <br />44 <br />45 Chair Wozniak indicated he joined in the presentation on Climate Change and <br />46 Forests in Minnesota several weeks ago and this is basically looking at what <br />47 changes could be in store for the three different biomes in Minnesota, grassland, <br />48 forest, and boreal forest due to rising temperatures and other changes in weather <br />49 patterns over the next thirty to forty years. <br />50 <br />51 Mr. Culver continued with his update on the Zoning Cocj/. <br />52 <br />53 Member Joyce asked in regard to the RFP for Recycling Services, he wondered if <br />54 the eval. Panels for the RFP's strictly Roseville staff or are there other stakeholders <br />55 that are in attendance on those. <br />56 <br />57 Mr. Culver indicated the City just hired a new Equity and Inclusion Manager, but <br />58 he has not started yet, but it may be possible to have him serve on the review panel <br />59 to help, particularly with the DEI scoring. He did not recall if staff invited someone <br />60 from Ramsey County to sit on the scoring panel or not. There will be a consultant <br />61 to help with some analysis and maybe some financial analysis, but the consultant <br />62 will not be a part of the scoring panel. It will be mostly staff. <br />63 <br />64 Chair Wozniak indicated one concern related to stormwater projects, the St. Rose <br />65 of Lima project is going to be a fairly sizeable one and this Commission has heard <br />66 of and been briefed on a number of stormwater projects over the last several years <br />67 and the necessity for them and the hoped effects they will have along with the <br />68 impacts they will have on water quality but it seemed to him that it is pretty rare <br />69 that they hear of any follow up on these projects in terms of if it did what the City <br />70 wanted it to do, what it was expected to do. <br />71 <br />72 Mr. Culver thought it was a good question and for some of the BMP's, such as what <br />73 is being used at St. Rose of Lima, where it is mostly underground storage, there <br />Page 2 of 5 <br />