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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, January 8, 2024 Page 5 of the water efficiency rebate offered. She thought it would be nice if more people could know about that option. She also thought it was another great thing and is a rebate on people's water bill. Councilmember Etten thanked Ms. Lowry for the presentation and thought the Public Works Department was going to be very busy as there are a lot of different things in the work plan. Thinking about that coordination with people, Ms. Lowry indicated the Highway 36 project will be done mostly at night and on weekends. He wondered if this is anticipated to overlap with the County's County Road B project. Ms. Lowry explained the City will work to communicate the closures and detours very well and there will still need to be access available to County Road B and all of those businesses. She believed the intention was to have one lane of traffic in each direction on B throughout construction, not full closure. Councilmember Etten indicated when looking at the street lighting policy,he would like staff to consider two things. One is the type of bulb that is put into the lights and then thinking about spill over of lights in the City. Councilmember Groff thought this was an impressive year's work being proposed. Councilmember Schroeder indicated that the City's contracts for street lights with Xcel expired and the City had to take the lights over. She asked how many lights City ended up taking over. Ms. Lowry indicated there were 124 contract lights but was not sure if those are the lights being switched over. Public Works Director Jess Freihammer explained the leases are expiring and there are options. The City does not necessarily have to take these over and the leases could be reupped or the City could pay as it goes with the lights. There are three options and that is the reason staff wants to go over the lighting policy, especially because most of the lights are in commercial areas. Mayor Roe indicated staff talked about the number of line breaks of the water or sewer over the course of the year and he wondered if this was trending up,or down, or fairly constant over time. Mr. Freihammer indicated it has been generally steady. Mayor Roe asked on the Arden Hills water supply project, if the City provided all of the water for the City of Arden Hills through the City's contract with the purchase from St. Paul.