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99 Public Works Director Culver explained the PWETC held a joint meeting with the <br />100 City Council at the July 191' City Council work session. There was a significant <br />101 amount of conversation between the Commission and City Council about some of <br />102 the upcoming topics that the Commission may take up in the next calendar year. <br />103 Chair Wozniak indicated he was interested in how COVID is going to affect the <br />104 workplace which in turn will affect transit because they may not be designing the <br />105 system for what is going to be normal. <br />106 Mr. Culver asked for Commission thoughts from the evening or topics to prioritize. <br />107 He noted they usually select a few topics that they can start planning for over the <br />108 upcoming months. <br />109 Member Ficek thought the review was very well done. He would be interested in <br />110 the speed limits topic. He did not think the City was ready to take any action and <br />111 he was not advocating for any action, but he would like to see some education on <br />112 that. He thought the other topic would be transit and traffic as well as interest in <br />113 seeing what happens with businesses and COVID and trying to bring people back <br />114 to work. <br />115 <br />Member Spencer explained the only concern on his mind, whether it is on the <br />116 <br />Master Plan or included in the bike network, would be addressing some of the <br />117 <br />electric scooters around and he did not know how these would be classified and <br />118 <br />where would these be addressed if the City were to address them. <br />119 <br />Mr. Culver thought this would be a really good conversation to have to see if the <br />120 <br />City even wants them in the community and how to regulate them. <br />121 Chair Wozniak thought it would be a good thing to look at because it affects many <br />122 things in the City such as speed limits, pathways, and other things. <br />123 Member Misra explained she would like to review the speed limit topic within the <br />124 next year as well. She thought having someone come in from St. Paul might be a <br />125 good start. She would also like to see someone from Parks and Recreation to <br />126 discuss green space in the City. She thought a lot of green space has been lost <br />127 recently with developments. <br />128 Mr. Culver discussed the City Tree Ordinance with the Commission <br />129 Chair Wozniak indicated he would like to look back at what the Tree Task Force <br />130 did a couple of years ago and what roadblocks they ran into, what were they able <br />131 to accomplish and what was left on the table. He thought as a part of what he would <br />132 like the Commission to look at is breaking down the silos, which is one thing that <br />133 a number of Councilmembers talked about and experiment with a task force <br />134 approach to multi -sector topics that are shared among the other advisory <br />135 commissions. <br />Page 4 of 5 <br />