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170 7. Items for Next Meeting — October 26, 2021 171 Discussion ensued regarding the October PWETC agenda: 172 • Proposed Utility Rates and Fees 173 • Introduction to Crosswalk Policies 174 175 Chair Wozniak asked if staff has had any luck with recruiting a student member to 176 the Commission. 177 178 Mr. Culver indicated the City has not and he did not believe any of the other 179 Commissions were having luck with recruiting student members either. He 180 reviewed the process for student commission recruitment. 181 182 Member Joyce asked if the Commission wanted to do a tour of the public works 183 facilities before winter. 184 185 Mr. Culver indicated he would like to propose a tour of the booster station outside 186 of the normal meeting time. He indicated they could also do a walk through of the 187 maintenance facility as well. 188 189 Vice Chair Ficek indicated since the last meeting he noticed school has started and 190 there are more kids walking around. With all of the walking he was particularly 191 thinking about the middle school and the high school and some of the intersections 192 where there are signals and he was wondering what the potential would be for 193 implementing a leading pedestrian interval. 194 195 Mr. Culver explained a leading pedestrian interval is a special interval of time in 196 the signal cycle where the intersection is all red for that pedestrian phase. It would 197 actually bring up the walk signal several seconds prior to any of the green lights 198 coming up. What that does is gets the pedestrian into the intersection and makes 199 them visible to the drivers waiting at the intersection before the light turns green 200 and it also gets them a third or so through the intersection before cars are allowed 201 to move. It has shown to be very effective in increasing safety at intersections. It 202 is a very good safety treatment at signalized intersections. He explained for 203 implementation in Roseville, all of the traffic signals in Roseville are controlled by 204 either Ramsey County or MnDOT. The City would have to work with those 205 agencies on that. He would imagine those agencies would have to look at it from a 206 big picture perspective. 207 208 Member Collins indicated he has been going by the high school area ever since 209 school started this year and late at night after football games it is extremely busy in 210 that area and kind of hard to see with it being really dark. He thought the suggestion 211 about the crosswalks in that area would be really great idea 212 213 Mr. Culver noted next year it is going to be really interesting around that area The 214 County received some Federal money to update the signal at Lexington and County 215 Road B2, adding two left turn lanes. There will be left turn lanes with left turn Page 5 of 6