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-6- Commissioner Wagner indicated he perceived some of the Commission members were also • not completely convinced the project had to be undertaken immediately but aTT had agreed it would be much better for the City to look- into a broad capital improve- ment plan now so the City wouldn't be faced sometime in the future with the need to make an immediate outlay for capital improvement like the reconstruction of the streets without having made some long range plans for that type of expenditure beforehand. Councilman Makowske said she did not entirely agree with Councilman Marks' assess- ment of the condition of all the streets and indicated she perceived the intention of the recent City Update meeting had been to sound the residents out as to how they viewed their community and just what improvements they perceived would be necessary in the near future. However, the Council member noted, the attendance at the meeting had not been encouraging and there did not seem to be a great concern about the condition of the streets voiced by the residents who were in attendance. She therefore was not at all certain the City should be trying to generate_ that type of resident interest at this particular time. Councilman Ranallo indicated his perception over the eight years he had served on the Council had been that the Planning Commission up to now had only been charged,. with responsibilities having to do with variances, platting, etc. and even the major redevelopment of the Kenzie Terrace area had been initiated by a task force and the Council and then referred to the Commission for their reaction. The Councilman suggested the time might have come to make a determination as to just what responsibilities, if any, the Commission would have related to the planning for future capital improvements. • Mr. Childs indicated the staff had just begun to get the information for such a plan gathered, and had even gotten to the point where expertise had been sought from the Metropolitan Council on how to start the planning process, which had been given at the joint Commission/Council meeting last spring, when 'the tornado struck and the Council had directed all staff energies should be directed towards getting the community back on its feet. He assured those present that staff had not forgotten the project but had just not gotten back to it yet. He also said that, if the Commission is to make recommendations on any long range plan, they would first. need the data the staff is just now starting to put together. Mayor Sundland reiterated, as he said he believed he had made clear in the past, that staff would first put together a Capital Improvement Plan which the Council would look at and add to, if necessary, before getting the Commission's reaction. Councilman Ran.allo said it was his perception that not only the Planning Commission would be ;in_v_olved' in the planning for street improvements but that a task force comprised of residents and representation from the schools, churches, civic organi- zations as well as from the Planning Commission would be formed to aid the Council in making the final determination of just what needed to be done to the streets. Councilman Marks wondered-whether what might really be needed would be to update the City's Comprehensive Plan from which the Capital Improvement program should naturally evolve.. Councilman Enrooth commented that he perceived the only reason the City had become involved in the Kenzington, and Walbon redevelopment projects had been because both represented situations where non-conforming land had to be addressed and he agreed • it would make a lot more sense to first look at the Comprehensive Plan than to go at each project piecemeal as some community groups seem to be suggesting.