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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes June 10, 2014 Page 4 basins, the Rice Creek Watershed District Board of Managers would consider these types of smaller projects as a local benefit. 4 Motion by Councilmember Roth, seconded by Councilmember Gray, to adopt Resolution 14- 5 043; a Resolution of Intent to Amend the Petition for the New Brighton/St. Anthony Basic Water 6 Management Project, Rice Creek Watershed District Project 2013-01, to Allow Implementation 7 of Mirror Lake and Hansen Park Project Components without Delay, to Acknowledge the 8 Allocation of Local Project Costs for the Mirror Lake and Hansen Park Project Components, to 9 Allow Proceeding to Project Phase 2 & 3 for other Project Components, to Consent to the 10 Addition of the City of Roseville as an Additional Petitioner for the Basic Water Management 11 Project, and Authorizing Amended Petition. 12 13 Motion carried unanimously. 14 15 C. Resolution 14-044; a Resolution Adoptingthe he Sign Retroreflectivity Policy. Todd 16 Hubmer, WSB & Associates, presenting. 17 18 City Engineer Hubmer explained that Federal law requires cities to update their street signs and 19 pass certain minimum standards for sign reflectivity and the City is now required to have a 20 policy in place addressing signs and sign maintenance. He noted that the City currently replaces 21 all City street signs associated with a street reconstruction project. 22 23 Councilmember Stille asked about Article V regarding removal of signs and asked if bike route 24 signs are included as part of this policy. 25 26 City Engineer Hubmer stated the City will review signs in critical situations, e.g., pedestrian 27 crossing signs, snow plow route signs, and no parking signs and may want to change the location 28 of some of those signs so that attention is brought to the pedestrian crossing sign and to avoid 29 cluttering locations with multiple signs. 30 31 Motion by Councilmember Gray, seconded by Councilmember Stille, to adopt Resolution 14- 32 044; a Resolution Adopting Sign Retroreflectivity Policy. 33 34 Motion carried unanimously. 35 36 D. Resolution 14-045; a Resolution Ordering Preparation of Feasibility Report for the 2015 37 Street and Utility Improvements. Todd Hubmer, WSB & Associates, presentine. 38 39 City Engineer Hubmer explained that the 2015 street and utility improvement project is located 40 on Chelmsford Road from 36`h Avenue NE to 37th Avenue NE and 36th Avenue NE from Silver 41 Lake Road to Highcrest Road. He pointed out that staff is proposing to add mill and overlay on 42 St. Anthony Boulevard from Ridgeway Parkway to the bridge crossing as well as some surface 43 improvements to select alleys. He advised that the City has been tracking the cost of 44 maintenance on its alleys and the cost to continue to maintain them is rapidly approaching the 45 cost to reconstruct. He explained that several alleys were not reconstructed as part of flood 46 mitigation on the south side of the City and those alleys are a priority. He presented the project 47 schedule and stated that construction is scheduled to begin in May 2015 with substantial 48 completion in September 2015.