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walkable community rather than encouraging additional vehicle use; the walking bridge concept over Highway 36 from Hershel to Rosedale; conflicts in safety and speed issues; logical connection points for intersections; and recognizing the challenges in afully-developed community such as Roseville. Chair DeBenedet requested that staff keep the Roseville Citizen's League informed on proposed and pending projects as they became finalized. 6. Organized Waste Collection Next Steps Recycling Coordinator Tim Pratt was present, at the request of the PWET Commission, and provided options to solicit public input on garbage services. Discussion among members and staff included proposed size and content of a mailed survey, utilizing a template developed by the International City/County Management Association, with 3-5 questions targeted specific to garbage service; study done to-date by the PWET Commission for background information, and the need for the public to have the benefit of that information to respond to questions rather than basing their responses on misinformation; other options such as a newspaper article defining the options being considered for recommendation by the PWET Commission; with focus groups developed from those in the community expressing interest in the subject to receive their collective input. Member Felice expressed her preference for starting out with the focus groups to provide an overview of the extent of knowledge on the subject and what additional information was needed for an informed recommendation. Member Felice noted her favorable impression with the Parks Master Plan visioning meetings, while time-consuming, but still providing significant public input. Further discussion included how residents were chosen for a survey and/or focus group by random selection, with a 10-20% estimated response rate; Member Gjerdingen opined that the approach was the most important, no matter the method used, recognizing past experience with community sensitivities, reinforcing that fact that this is under discussion, not planned and not being put in place at this time. Chair DeBenedet opined that a mailed or on-line survey would be the least useful, and spoke in support of a focus group, with open meetings, similar to those the City had held last summer, even though not well attended given the amount of advertising they' d received. Further discussion included the advantages of an on-line survey allowing more questions to be asked and massive amounts of data made available; Page 6 of 11