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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,July 10, 2023 Page 2 Council, and numerous staff updates. He thanked staff for the terrific work that has been done during the past year. Commissioner Hodder explained the Met Council is also involved in their 2050 Transit Plan and cities and counties are providing input in that process. Chair Ficek reviewed work plan items for the upcoming year. He indicated the Commission will continue to discuss speed limits and would like Council input. The Commission is also discussing the scope of the Commission as requested by the City Council and is in development of discussing a bike network plan as well as discussing the Eureka Recycling contract. He also updated the Council on the Roseville area transit system. He noted the Commission would also like to work with the Finance Commission on the City's future road maintenance. He thought that was some great collaboration between the Commissions. Commissioner Hodder also explained the Commission discussed working with the Finance Commission on the sewage and lateral lines. Councilmember Groff indicated he was very impressed with the work the PWETC is doing. He liked the discussions of the Commission and appreciated the detail in the report. Councilmember Etten noted the amount of work the Commission has done is excellent and there are a lot of people thinking in different ways,which is what the Council has asked the Commission to do. He thought the only piece that might matter going forward and now rather than later is the bike network plan. He thought it was a great idea to be thinking about how to make that a cohesive system that connects to the surrounding systems. Chair Ficek explained the first topic is speed limit discussion and if the City Council would like the Commission to move forward with this, he wondered how the City Council would want this topic brought forward to the public and to get other views beyond what was discussed. Mayor Roe asked the Council if the Commission should move forward on this topic. Councilmember Groff explained he liked the Commission discussion on where the Commission looked at other cities and what those cities have been doing. He thought that was helpful information but did not seem complete as of yet. He thought this was an ongoing thing, but he was not sure how far the City should proceed right now. Councilmember Schroeder thanked the Commission for being at the meeting tonight. Regarding the speed limit, she wondered what is the purpose of doing this.