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Special City Conncii Meeting Monday, February 20, 2008 Page 8 Discussion included once again noting that, while items may be listed wider a specific depart- ment, they involved many different departments; those items that were an ongoing process; diffi- culty in identifying medium and long-range goals and the need to reorder the lists for future dis- cussion; and planning for medium-term goals inunediately. Councilmember Pust opined the need to move funding for haffic warning/speed boards to the short-term goal list to improve citizen-perceived traff c issues, or to educate citizens. Further discussion included the amount of public cormnent on speed issues; types and cost of speed boards (sign posted or mobile hailer); and their long term compliance rates; traffic issue resolution related to improving quality of life concerns of residents; and ongoing transit and traf= fie issues, and whether medium term goals are more task or policy orientated. Comments during the attempts to prioritize medium-term goals included, Councilmember Pust encouraging transit issues in discussions across the board, including land use and policy issues; inclusion of the city energy policy in shorC-term goals, and continuing across all three (3) goals terms; and the need for water rate incentives based on Metropolitan Council initiatives. Mr. Schwartz noted that the Council had initially funded $25,000 of the requested $100,000 traf- fic model cost and noted that this didn't allow staff to accomplish a significant amount of work. However, Mr. Schwartz noted that through the Twin Lakes redevelopment process, as well as some other redevelopment projects, with the City taking the lead, they were owners of the pieces of data that could now be assembled as part of the City's long-term goal for acity-wide model, with staff estimating that more than half of the city-wide model was now available for assembly. It was the consensus to combine the unassigned section to "encourage development of transit, walkability and alternative transportation," with the second item under Parks and Recreation "city-wide transportation system." In concluding priorities in this medium-term section, participants found it difficult to make that determination. After further discussion, it was determined that alternative transportation was a high priority; with many of the medium-term and long-term goals requiring immediate work to formulate poli- cies to achieve the goals, some requiring more detailed work than others; and staff beginning to develop draft policies and plans for Council review and discussion for overall goals to maintain and manage open space.