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79 Mr. Culver explained that, as a representative of the City Engineers Association of 80 Minnesota, he actually testified against the 2019 bill that passed. The language that 81 finally ended up in Statute was actually a combination of a couple of bills that had 82 been introduced in the proper course of time through the process. There were 83 several hearings about it over the House and Senate committees. The feedback he 84 got when he was there from his own representative was that they were tired of 85 listening to engineers asking them to let the engineers study it again. His testimony 86 at the time was they should really give the engineers a chance to reconnect as a 87 group, as an industry and with the special interest groups to talk about what the 88 statutory stream of it should be, because the cities felt very strongly and counties 89 feel the same way about the fill that talks about the counties setting the speed limits 90 on their roads. This is not something that should be done piecemeal. This is not 91 something that one county or city should have a different set of speed limits than 92 the city or county next to them because it gets away from uniformity of the law 93 which then there really is confusion out there and people do not know what the 94 speed limit is if the person happens to not to see the sign, for whatever reason. That 95 was their major concern and he was told in very blunt words that the Legislature is 96 just tired of listening to the engineers and that the Legislatures were going to fix 97 the problem and this was their way of fixing the problem. He appreciated Mr. 98 Kysylyczyn coming done to discuss this. 99 100 Mr. Culver indicated that enforcement is going to be the biggest issue and how will 101 the City enforce this and when will it be enforced. How will the City get the police 102 officers to embrace some targeted enforcement in that and will clearly have to be a 103 part of the whole picture if the City is going to make the speed limit actually 104 effective. 105 106 Member Cicha thought it sounds like this is something the Commission should at 107 least hear from the Police Chief about because as he understood it, the Police 108 Department is against this and he would like to hear their reason why. He thought 109 hearing from the Police Chief would help in making a recommendation. 110 111 Chair Ficek wondered if this would be a good opportunity to collaborate with the 112 Police Department Commission on. He indicated he did not have any idea on what 113 that might look like though. 114 4W 115 Mr. Culver explained the only thing he will say regarding the Police Commission 116 is that he is not exactly sure what their prevue is on that Commission and what their 117 official task is. 118 119 Vice Chair Joyce asked if the 2021 speed study includes traffic flow, traffic timing, 120 and other things come into play. 121 122 Mr. Freihammer explained the data the City collected, most of it was done in 2017 123 and it was updated in 2020, which was during COVID, and may be the reason why Page 3 of 6