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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes August 9, 2011 Page 4 I Watershed District has shown that the City can exceed the Watershed District's standards for 2 water quality but the Watershed District needs to give the City an alternative to the volume 3 restriction requirements due to the clay soils. He added that the Watershed District recognizes 4 the challenges faced by the City. 6 City Attorney Gilligan advised that the City will need to work with the Watershed District in 7 order to come up with a solution. 8 9 Motion by Courrcilmember Roth, seconded by Councilmember Jenson, to approve Resolution 10 11-048; Accepting the Feasibility Report and Authorize Plans & Specifications for the 2012 11 Street Improvement Project. 12 13 Motion carried 4-0. 14 15 D. Resolution 11-049• Road Sign Reflectivity Standards and Sian Replacement Todd 16 Hubmer, WSB & Associates nresentine. 17 18 City Engineer Hubmer explained that the Federal Highway Administration recently mandated 19 that all agencies maintain certain standards for street signs requiring the City to adopt standards 20 for sign replacement in the City to meet the Federal guidelines. He stated that the plan will 21 provide indemnity from individual traffic signs, requires that a traffic sign inventory be 22 performed and a budget established for traffic sign replacement, will provide a uniform plan to 23 manage traffic sign replacement for safety and compliance, and will provide long-term traffic 24 sign compliance and management to utilize the full life of signs. lie noted that the City has been 25 replacing all street signs in the City, including street name signs, yield signs, stop signs, and 26 warning signs with all street reconstruction projects in conformance with the Federal guidelines. 27 28 Motion by Councilmember Roth, seconded by Councilmember Dray, to approve Resolution 1.1- 29 049; Road Sign Reflectivity Standards and Sign Replacement. 30 31 Motion carried 4-0. 32 33 Mayor Faust stated that the sign at 33`d and Rankin Road by the high school is difficult to see 34 when the sun is setting and requested that the City find out the cost of putting in a flashing sign 35 at that location. Ile also requested an update regarding his email about the use of an electronic or 36 warning system for crosswalks in the City. 37 38 Mr. Hubmer advised that a memo has been prepared and will be sent to the City Council in the 39 near future. 40 41 Mr. Hubmer then provided a brief update on the 2011 street improvement project and advised 42 that the Belden Drive utilities will be completed this week and crews will begin removing the 43 I3elden and Harding streets toward the end of the week. He also provided an update regarding 44 the July 16°i flooding event where 3.5" to 6" of rain was received which caused flooding at the 45 Mirror Lake townhomes and other locations. He stated that the building at 2812 Anthony Lane 46 S. that was impacted by this flooding is different than the building impacted during the 1997 0