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community. The potential impacts to the City’s finances would need to be determined. 2G. Street Utility Charge – Look into the possibility of establishing a transportation utility charge. What are the legal aspects of this? 2H. Develop a Financial Plan for the entire Program – Regardless of what financial options are selected, a financial plan should be developed for the entire program. This was identified as an action step to the City’s goal of improving the City’s infrastructure. A financial spreadsheet has been started to address this (see attached sheet). 3. Procedural Options 3A. Petition Initiated Projects - Initiate projects only by a petition whereby greater than 50 % of the property owners support a project. This petition could be sponsored by individual citizens, citizen groups, or the City. This procedure will have the benefit of: 1.) Get greater public input, 2.) Better ascertain real support for a project, 3.) Will only necessitate a majority vote by Council to order the project (as opposed to 4/5th vote), 4.) Will require a petition in opposition to have an equal number of property owner’s signatures who oppose the project than the number of property owner’s signatures who initiated the project. Example: if a project is initiated with a petition of support with 70% of the affected property owners signing the petition. It would require a petition with signatures from 70% of the affected property owners to terminate the project. An optimum petition would clearly define what the proposal is and what the cost would be. Evaluate Street Conditions - The City will continue to evaluate street segments and rank neighborhood project areas based on this condition rating. 3B. Include all areas - Offer the street and utility program to all 18 neighborhood project areas. Select by petition results. 3C. Flexible Boundaries – Be flexible with current neighborhood project area boundaries (see attached map). Exclude fringe areas where there is little support / include areas from adjacent project areas where there is greater support. 3D. Infrastructure Task Force/ Committee/ Focus Group – The City Council could consider establishing a focus group to look into issues associated with improving the City’s infrastructure.