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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes May 12, 2020 Page 6 1 Why does the City feel confident that now is the time to move forward with the installation of 2 artificial turf on the football field during a pandemic and without broad community discussion." 3 4 Mayor Stille indicated normally during community forum there is no comment from the Council 5 but because this was thought about, there should be some response offered. The 2022 budget 6 discussion is going to take place in 2021 and there could be a $32,000 gap if this is approved and 7 the Council will be discussing how that gap is filled at that point in time. With regard to 8 maintenance costs he did not have any expectations that the City would be helping fund the 9 maintenance of the turf. He explained the City would not be obligated to replace the turf. He 10 noted the environmental mitigation plans is a School District question and he thought maybe at 11 the next meeting the City Athletic Director, Troy Urdahl and Superintendent Renee Corneille 12 could come and answer those questions. 13 14 Ms. Lona Doolan, 3511 Harding Street, stated she listened to the Worksession last week and 15 regarding the turf replacement discussion she has not heard anyone talk about the long-term 16 plans for the turf replacement. She understood that it is a ten-year life span and she thought it 17 was important to look at and ask questions about how the City is going to actually dispose of a 18 football field sized amount of trash which is not recyclable. She also wondered why this 19 decision needed to be made now when there are many unknowns about returning to school and 20 what community play will look like this fall. She thought that given the number of people 21 currently out of work and the acknowledgement of what the City and School may be facing in 22 terms of what needs to be done to adjust the facilities, it might worth asking if the discussion 23 could be deferred until everyone is back to functioning within normal parameters. She knew that 24 Dr. Corneille talked about using levy sources as a part of the funding and she wondered what 25 happened if future capital investment is needed to make the facilities safe for return and the 26 source of funds is not there. 27 28 Ms. Doolan noted at the Worksession there was also discussion about speed limits and she was 29 happy to hear the Council was being proactive about this opportunity and she supported both the 30 initial change to the twenty-five miles per hour as well as taking up a study to look at can it go 31 lower to twenty in some parts of the City. With the change in demographics there are so many 32 more young kids biking and walking along the streets and it seems more appropriate to consider 33 twenty miles per hour in some parts of the streets, particularly ones with no sidewalks. 34 35 Mr. Paul White wondered what the City's role was regarding the turf project if it is really the 36 School District's project. He also asked whether the City requires there be paired review studies 37 on some of what Ms. Doolan talked about, the environmental and project lifespan. 38 39 Hearing no one else, Mayor Stille moved forward with the agenda. 40 41 IX. INFORMATION AND ANNOUNCEMENTS. 42 43 Mayor Stille encouraged people to get online and fill out the Census. 44 45 X. ADJOURNMENT. 46