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Member Misra explained she would like the Commission to also look at neighboring cities that have changed their overall standards that have bordering streets to Roseville to take a look at those speed limits and be considerate of the neighboring cities. She also thought it was important to look at the policing of the streets but also understood that a lot of people are abusing the speed limits and by reducing the speed limit the City would be indicating to the residents and commuters to slow it down all over the place. This is more of a general indicator that may bring down speed across the board. 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. Page 4 of 9