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Member Collins indicated he had opinions that he wanted to keep to himself at this time. Chair Ficek noted he is an engineer by trade but he is balancing that with maybe there is a cultural change that is needed. He explained that he has talked to Mr. Culver previously about streets and the engineers designing them for cars and the change now is to try to design the roads for pedestrians and bicycles and trying to determine which will dictate the rules for the road. In terms of questions he has of what he would like to see, it would be interesting to see some of the things the City has rolled out and how decisions were made and what were some of the aspects looked at and what were the results. He also agreed he would like to hear from the Police Chief and the education processes that can be there, not only for a roll out but is there a way, if they were to go with a lower speed limit, are there programs that can get the residents involved where they can actually start to understand what the actual speed is when standing out in the front yard. He would also like to find out from other cities that decided not to go to uniform city speed limits and find out the reasons why. Generally, he thought there is agreement to continue to look at this and gather more information before making a recommendation. He thought the public needed to be involved but not immediately, he thought the public should be included at a later stage. 6. Civic Campus Master Plan Pre -Design Project Update Mr. Culver updated the Commission on the Civic Campus Master Plan Pre -Design Proj ect. Member Collins indicated there were a couple of things he noticed such as the salt positioning and dry storage area was facing west and usually when it snows the winds blows from that way and will direct the snow into that area. He wondered if that is the best location for these. Mr. Culver explained the largest issue the City has with that is staff does not want to put those uses on the west side because it would be immediately adjacent to the residents there with a lot more noise and would impact that area. He was also not sure if it would fit along the north end. There was also a plan to have a secondary access to the maintenance facility on the north side. He thought out of necessity and how the site works that is where it ended up. Some valid points were brought up to maybe put some sort of screen or curtain in front of those bins to keep them covered during some of the rain and storm events. Member Misra thanked Mr. Culver for the presentation and wondered if there has been any discussion about how to incorporate some of the renewable principals. If there is the possibility of solar on top of a part of this future facility. Mr. Culver explained at one of the presentations to the City Council that staff actually had that conversation with them. There was discussion about sustainability and what level of sustainability does the City want to design with these buildings Page 5 of 6