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34 Abstain: 1 (Mueller) <br />35 Motion carried. <br />36 <br />37 5. Communication Items <br />38 Assistant Public Works Director/City Engineer Jennifer Lowry provided a brief <br />39 review and update on projects and maintenance activities listed in the staff report <br />40 dated April 25, 2023. <br />41 <br />42 Chair Ficek asked if there have been a lot of requests for yard signs for Less Mow <br />43 May. . <br />44 <br />45 Ms. Bakken explained there have been forty-nine sign ups online since Friday. <br />46 <br />47 Member Hodder asked how the visioning process was going and if the Commission <br />48 was going to have an update as far as how the consultant is doing. <br />49 <br />50 Mr. Freihammer explained that the consultant did present to Council and then there <br />51 was afollow-up with department heads two to three weeks ago. The consultants are <br />52 still compiling data <br />53 <br />54 6. U of M Climate Policy Student Group — Walk Friendly Community Project <br />55 Sustainability Intern Noelle Bakken introduced Simon, Ava, Ben and Patricija from <br />56 the University of Minnesota Climate Policy Student Group who provided a <br />57 presentation to the Commission. <br />58 <br />59 Chair Ficek thanked the students for their presentation. <br />60 <br />61 Member Cicha asked about the certification, do you start at bronze or can a city go <br />62 straight to silver or gold. r <br />63 <br />64 Simon indicated a city can start at whatever level it has achieved. <br />65 <br />66 Ava explained there is also an honorable mention category for walk friendly <br />67 communities. That would be the level below bronze. <br />68 <br />69 Member Luongo asked how the students went about engaging the students at the <br />70 high school. She noted the Commission has a vacancy on the Commission for a <br />71 Youth Commissioner and has not had success in the past. <br />72 <br />73 Ava explained she was the one behind communicating with the students and she <br />74 just had a meeting with them a couple months ago from the RAHS Progressive <br />75 Student Committee body and she was able to reach out to them through Instagram, <br />76 where she got the most engagement. When she tried to reach out through email that <br />77 did not go as well. Instagram was the best method of communication in that sense, <br />78 and she was able to meet with a few students and talk about this while it was in the <br />79 preliminary stages. <br />Page 2 of 7 <br />Page 4 of 29 <br />