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33 5. Communication Items 34 City Engineer Jesse Freihammer provided a brief review and update on projects 35 and maintenance activities listed in the staff report dated September 28, 2021. 36 37 Member Cicha thanked Assistant City Engineer Smith for helping with the County 38 Road B project issues with a family member. 39 40 Mr. Culver thanked Member Cicha for pointing that out and appreciated the 41 comment. He noted that project is nearing completion. 42 43 Mr. Culver updated the Commission on the City Council items related to the 44 PWETC as well as an updated on the watermain break between Josephine and 45 County Road C2. 46 47 Member Misra indicated she was happy to see a four way stop at Hamlin and C2. 48 She noted she goes through that area fairly often and it feels safer now. She 49 wondered if this is a permanent change. 50 51 Mr. Culver explained this is an intersection the City has been struggling with and 52 there has been a high crash rate there, in particular over the last four or five years 53 and the City has been working with the County trying different things because 54 people are not seeing cars in that area of late. He indicated this does not meet 55 warrants and technically speaking the City should not have a four way stop there 56 and the danger is if an all -way stop is put into a non -warranted situation it sets up 57 a situation where people do not respect the stop sign because there is not enough 58 traffic there and people will start to do California stops or go through the stop sign 59 and an even worse crash could happen. He thought it has been working great and 60 people are used to the signs now. He thought in the future this might be converted 61 to a possible mini round about, which would be more suitable for that type of 62 intersection. For now, it will be an all way stop for the foreseeable future. 63 64 Chair Wozniak asked if the City has done any follow-up traffic studies on C2 to 65 determine whether or not there has been an increase in crosstown traffic since C2 66 opened all the way up to Victoria. 67 68 Mr. Culver explained the City did follow up traffic counts between Josephine, C2 69 and Woodhill. The traffic study that was done before C2 connected to Lexington 70 nailed how the traffic would be distributed through those three routes, once C2 was 71 opened to traffic. He noted it is pretty well balanced out between the three. 72 73 6. Emerald Ash Borer Update and Accelerated Plan 74 Assistant Parks and Recreation Director Matt Johnson and Parks Superintendent 75 Jim Taylor gave a presentation regarding the Emerald Ash Borer update and 76 accelerated plan. 77 Page 2 of 6