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