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Sustainability Update • Roseville was announced as one of the 2022 winners for the Intercity Home Energy Squad challenge, with the highest percentage of Home Energy Squad visits per capita out of 26 competing cities. The City was celebrated on March 23 at a virtual event. • Staff continue to work with the Gold Leaf pilot program by attending meetings and webinars on the program. Staff continue to meet with the other participating communities to brainstorm potential action items. • Staff is working with an undergraduate student team from the University of Minnesota through May to help implement a Gold Leaf action item. The team has narrowed their project focus to researching Roseville becoming a Walkable Community. • As part of the resiliency planning team, staff attended two Rice Creek Watershed District Community Resilience Building workshops on February 28 and March 22. Staff worked with other community members within the district to discuss barriers, goals, and actionable items to make RCWD and its communities more resilient to the recent changes in precipitation patterns. • Roseville was selected to take part in the EV Smart Cities program through the Great Plains Institute. Staff attended a meeting and webinar on the program, and is discussing neat steps to help promote the program at the City level. Major Maintenance Activities: • Street and Storm o We have had an additional 12.5" and 9 additional plow callouts 2/24/23- 3/22/23. Season total to date is pushing 84.25" (In Roseville measurements). o Completed 3rd benching 3/9/23. Some additional snow blowing and hauling. Had anticipated more snow and needed additional space to store. o Ongoing sign work related to winter conditions will continue. o Two additional water breaks that Street Maintenance hauled and put temporary patches on. o Ongoing monitoring of water break patch conditions. o T.A. Schifsky asphalt plant opened Monday 3/20/23. We are patching as necessary. Water and Sanitary Sewer o Located City -owned Utilities for Gopher State One Call locate requests. o Made weekly site visits to all lift stations. o Continued replacing water meters and MIUs . o One repair on our water main system for the month of March. o Collected water samples for bacteriological and disinfection byproducts. o Continued laundering towels weekly used by office personnel for cleaning work areas. o Relocated ice machine at the Public Works Building. o Working with roof contractor to stop/repair the leak on the City Hall roof. o Gas pump controls are now wired to run off the generator during an outage. o The last three service doors at the Public works garage are now on the pass card system. o Purchase of the televising trailer now complete. o Updated price list for the cost of New Meters. o Leaking Curb Stop at 435 Judith Ave repaired by Capra's Utilities Inc. • Page 3 Page 18 of 67